links for 2008-01-18

"A friend who's much smarter than I once theorized that the process of growing up involves going either through a Tolkien phase or a Beat phase, but never both."

A nature writer's story about ferrets was plagiarized for pillow talk in a bad romance novel.

Touring Indian restaurants with a professor of food studies at NYU.

I turned to my brother, and I said, "Good."

New Hampshire = Bangladesh