Cake and Pie, and Other News

2666, in pie-chart form. (Black, in case you were wondering, represents “dread, unease, foreboding.”)
Not merely one book-themed cupcake, but a series. (We look forward to 2666.)
“Let us not speak of the cookbooks.” A pair of academics attempt to organize their library. 
There is no Hilary Mantel–Kate Middleton feud!
Mantel just called the duchess “a jointed doll on which certain rags are hung ... without quirks, without oddities, without the risk of the emergence of character.” And no Anne Boleyn.