What better way to celebrate Friday the 13th than with the Guardian's quiz, which asks "13 frightful questions to test your knowledge of the fiendish in fiction. Will 13 be your unlucky number?"
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For the motorcycle rider/reader in your life, Things People Make featured a set of biker bookends made from vintage Harley Davidson gears.
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In the New Republic, David Hajdu offered some tongue-in-cheek suggestions for a "line of courses, mining the works of all forms of literature for lessons that can be directly applied to solve everyday problems," including:
- Home-Decorating Ideas from the Great Plays
- Quick and Simple Recipes from Chaucer
- Tighter Buns through the Quantangshi
- Diet Secrets of Lyric Poetry
- Better Sex through Metafiction.
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TV late-night host Conan O'Brien showed off some post-holiday coffee-table book "leftovers" he discovered during a recent bookstore visit. The too-good-to-be true volumes include Satellite Photos of Dogs, Anne Geddes Babies All Grown Up, Accidental iPhone Photos and Sir Anthony Hopkins Rides the World's Scariest Roller Coasters.