Today’s intellectual menu features all-you-can-eat Highsmith, literary matricide, and Sonic the Hedgehog. Intrigued?

The highlights:

-Fictitious dishes: food porn meets literature.

-The Patricia Highsmith papers.

-The African-American literary marketplace.

-Sleep bliss vs. sleep agony.

-Colm Toibin’s New Ways to Kill Your Mother, reviewed in the New York Times.

-A new study gets everything wrong.

-My Own Private Fassbinder.

-Joseph Martin lists the best books on tainted love.

-Films about journalism at the NYPL.

-Will Brave be just another Disnified attempt at faux-feminist shlock? You decide.

-Anna Wintour does not like discussing her age.

-Some people are gay in space.