Ian Crouchwrites for The New Yorker about a new version of The Sun Also Rises, which gives readers a peak into Hemingway's drafts and revisions.  Crouch believes that by reading these drafts carefully, one can pick out a "minor manifesto" that "conceives of a book with greater intellectual and artistic ambitions than Hemingway ever produced."  In the words of Hemingway's character Jake Barnes, "Isn''t it pretty to think so?"  Pair with our own review of the latest edition of The Sun Also Rises. 

“I first met Dean not long after Tryscha and I hooked up.  I had just gotten over a wicked fucking hangover that I won’t bother to talk about, except that it had something to do with a six-foot-five douchebag and a beer bong... Before that I’d often dreamed of going West to see hot LA actress chicks and try In N’ Out burgers, always vaguely planning and never taking off.” -  From On the Bro’d, where every sentence of Jack Kerouac’sOn the Road is retold for Bros. (via The Rumpus)

There's an oxymoron for you: "Rich Poet."  But the new fortunes of Emirati poet Saif Al Mansouri prove that with talent, grit, and a live television audience, truly anything is possible.  The UAE show "Millionaire's Poet," in its sixth season, awarded $1.3 million (the Nobel Prize.  for comparison, is $1.2 million) to winner Al Mansouri, and perhaps something even more valuable - a global audience of up to 70 million, actually tuning in.