Cool lips to the bottle To hell with everyone

* The New Yorker profiles Larry David.

* the weather outside is sunny and bright, a new short story by a.m. homes.

* "The hardest thing to write is straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know the subject; then you have to know how to write. Both take a lifetime to learn, and anybody is cheating who takes politics as a way out. All the outs are too easy, and the thing itself is too hard to do." -- Ernest Hemingway