Excuse Me While I Close the Door – I’d Like to Have My M.I.T. in Private

I’ll start today’s Thursday Thievery with something educational: an interview with the smart, smart, smart Jane Friedman (via Wetmachine), the recently ex-Writer’s Digest publisher. The interview is longish, but worth the read if you’re a writer, editor, or anyone interested in the future of books. (Hint: There is, in fact, a future.)

I’ll close with the uneducational, unless you think photographs of Burt Reynolds naked ass make you smarter, or you believe the fact that Michael Bolton survived on macaroni and cheese after the breakup of his first band is something you should have learned in college. Enjoy this and this from Awful Library Books. You’re welcome.