BULLETT

Today in culture, we learn that egos are good, and that the Southern lexicon is a little too wonderful.

The highlights:

-Occupy newspapers.

-Amy Winehouse’s dad writes her biography.

-The Old Man and the Sea, animated.

-Rory Stewart on Bruce Chatwin.

-How love rewrites the brain.

-Everything is political.

-Faces of Florence.

-George Orwell: Why We Write.

-‘Underwhelming’ isn’t the half of it.

-How does anyone choose which Southern words are best? Our vote goes to ‘Pshaw!’

-New short stories, free from Harper Perennial.

-Hatin’ on The Newsroom.