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First, if you're in New York anytime between yesterday (woops, sorry!) and this Sunday, you should try to check out the PEN World Voices Festival. I haven't made it to any part yet, but I hope to soon. I'm disappointed because the most exciting thing, to me, will be taking place in Rochester, and I just can't go that far on short notice, even to see Umberto Eco and Salman Rushdie together.

Second, as described at Paper Cuts, it is now possible to follow Samuel Pepys through the past as if he were blogging it right now. I've wanted to read Pepys' diary, ever since I read Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle. Now I can!