Summer’s nearly over, dear readers! Better stock up on some Unrequired Reading!<\/p>\n
Free Gil<\/a>! (Arenas)<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n Costuming Inception<\/em><\/a> (spoiler alert)<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n Words can’t do justice, so I’ll try acronyms: GFY on JLH’s TCL<\/a> (spoiler alert, too, I guess)<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n So, wait: Charlie Chan was Swedish<\/a>?<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n Max Headroom predicted the crappiest aspects of the future<\/a>?<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n Craig Venter doesn’t drop f-bombs. He drops ACTG-bombs<\/a>.<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n Dance like there’s ants in your scanner<\/a>!<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n On second thought, let’s TCBYon’t<\/a>.<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n Audwin P. McGee: the most interesting man in the world<\/a>?<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n But the piece I most want you to read (I guess I should call this Required Reading, rather than Unrequired) is Christopher Hitchens’ first Vanity Fair column since he began treatment for cancer<\/a>. It’s gorgeous, heartbreaking, clear-eyed and is making me really wonder what I should be doing with my writing. 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