- Elizabeth Minkel on whether George Saunders, who writes only short stories, can achieve Great status (The Millions).
- Christian Lorentzen on whether Alice Munro, who writes only short stories and is considered Great, really is (London Review of Books).
- That Great poem “Howl” is stricken from one more high school English curriculum. Certainly not the last.
- Salt will no longer sponsor your Greatness, but wishes you the best with placing your work elsewhere (The Guardian).
- A Great poem doesn’t easily spawn Greatness: Dan Brown, Mary Jo Bang, and Clive James take on Dante (New Yorker).
- The people who promote Great Objects d’ Tech at The Wirecutter have started The Sweethome for Great household Stuff.
- Arrested Development is at least Great in the Abstract. Here’s Slate’s TV Club for Netflix’s new season 4.
- Two efforts to convince you that Greatness lurks in (or can be extracted from) the Fast and Furious films. Here (The Atlantic) and here (Slate).
- Five Great buildings of the Chicago skyline: