Things That Make You Go Hmmm, Vol. 54

Nabokov's sister and Ayn Rand were school friends.

Dan Brown and David Foster Wallace were in the same creative writing class in college.

Ursula K. LeGuin and Philip K. Dick went to the same high school.

When Andre the Giant was 12, Samuel Beckett drove him to school.
(This last one via James Hynes)

Beckett goes to the beach

I. Best Bookforum cover ever:


II.
In Print, Jonathan Taylor writes on food logos of yore. I like this phrase: "eclectic stylistic energies."

(Via Jenny D.)