WELCOME TO THE READING ROOM.

SO IT GOES. An interview with Kurt Vonnegut.

OKRENT ON THE MEDIA. Dan Okrent speaks at Williams College (audio also available; lead from Romanesko).

A PRO-CHOICE MOM AND HER DAUGHTER. "My mom is ardently pro-choice, even though, after giving birth to me prematurely at 26 weeks, her outlooked changed," writes Rachel Kramer Bussel.

TOO DARN HOT! Gawker gapes at a major recipe error in The New York Times.

Photo: David Marc Fischer