Well, it appears after last week’s overload of links the internet has dried up this week. It’s good, in a way, as I seem to have been a lot more productive this week. Thanks boring internet, but please don’t always be this way. Oh look! Here’s Ernest Hemingway with a buffalo!

• Book recommendations from Yoko Ono anyone?
• Oh my, the MS Readathon for adults in the form of the Novel Challenge.
• Read the first two chapters of Chuck Palahniuk‘s new novel Tell-All on the A.V. Club.
• I’m sure everyone and their dog saw this during the week, but I’m going to link to it anyway: Ghostbusters recreated by an improv group in the New York Public Library’s main reading room.
• I’ve just finished reading Rachel Trezise’s latest novel Sixteen Shades of Crazy, and at The Guardian she offers her top 10 Welsh underground novels.
• Book spotting in Williamsburg‘s McCarren Park.
• Thanks to the eagle-eyed Steph from My Girl Friday: John Waters talks about six of his favourite books, suicides in the entertainment and speed-freak memoirs included.
• The new Bret Easton Ellis web site is pretty ace, including a length excerpt from Imperial Bedrooms – Clay analyzes how the novel written about them was adapted into a lacklustre movie (!), and reveals how one major character is murdered.
• And more Bret Easton Ellis with a series of interviews from Movieline about the film adaptations of his novels: On Less Than Zero, on American Psycho, on The Rules of Attraction, on The Informers, and on his future film project The Golden Suicides.
• The Columbus State University’s Carson McCullers Center had a Carson themed feast at the beginning of May. New project? I still haven’t gotten around to making ‘Spuds Carson’ as discussed in Illumination & Night Glare.
• You all probably heard the “news” that Carson McCullers is Robert Pattinson’s favourite writer, yeah? He recently gave Oprah a copy of The Ballad of the Sad Café. I respectfully decline to comment.
• And, just in case you need a laugh and a reason to never have children: Shit My Kids Ruined.

Photo credit: Ernest Hemingway poses with a water buffalo while on safari in Africa, 1953-1954. Photograph in the Ernest Hemingway Photograph Collection, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, Boston.