• Tessa Hadley on how to write tedium, interestingly.
• Speaking of alleviating boredom: good reads for a long flight.
• Can there ever be too many literary-tattoo roundups? Well, whatever your answer, here’s a good one!
• LeVar Burton schools Stephen Colbert and Carey Mulligan on The Great Gatsby. But you don’t have to take his word for it!
• Dan Brown apparently deals with writer’s block by hanging upside down.