Friday Links

In Truman Capote news - Bodies of “In Cold Blood” killers exhumed in Kansas

The Bill Gates year-end reading list

New legal specialty: superhero law. Awesome.

Author/blogger/super-statistician Nate Silver breaks down gun-ownership stats

Columbine is still required reading. Read it already.

The amazing novel Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk has won a best first novel award. Right on.

The UK equivalent of Dave Eggers’s 826 writing centers, founded by Nick Hornby, has a kid-written soap opera. With a cameo by Nick Hornby.

I will have a year-end “best of list” coming soon.  I have to wait until I’m sure that I’m done reading awesome books first.

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