Whew.

Just to get this out of the way: paperback giveaway! Go to it!

I have brain-drain from lots of dissertation chapter editing, so it's mostly links tonight:

Paul Ford on the fundamental question of the Internet: why wasn't I consulted?
Advice about writing workshops from USC professors.
The last unknown victims of the Triangle Waist Company fire have been identified.
Memory palaces: the extreme sports version.
A long and interesting interview with Alison Bechdel about memoir, memory, fiction, and narrative structure.
One of the Stockett family's maids files suit against Kathryn Stockett, author of The Help.
Jesse Eisenberg's Marxist-Socialist jokes and "manageable tongue-twisters" at McSweeney's.