Philip Roth takes a tour of Philip Roth's Newark, New Jersey. Should we envy the guide, or feel for him?

• How Google came to identify the authors of a scholarly article as Escalate Embuggerance and Holistic Feisty, with additional stern words from Languagehat.

• Book covers from the long-off days when a dust jacket was something to repel dust. (Via.)

• F Scott Fitzgerald and money.

• More highbrow/middlebrow/lowbrow, extending further into the past.