Vanity Fair finds a surprising connection between Winnie the Pooh and the Rolling Stones. WBEZ's Alison Cuddy interviews cartoonist Daniel Clowes. At the New Yorker, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg lists her favorite albums. The Book C... more info

Occupy This Album is a 4-CD box set that contains 99 tracks from 99 artists in a variety of music genres. Patti Smith, Lucinda Williams, Ani DiFranco, and others contribute to this ambitious project that benefits the Occupy Wall... more info

Three Guys One Book lists rock novels worth reading. NPR is streaming the new Mount Eerie album, Clear Moon (out May 22nd). Author Mo Willems remembers Maurice Sendak at Public Radio International. The Boston Globe interviews singer-songwriter Justin... more info

All Songs Considered is streaming a new song by Patti Smith, from her forthcoming album Banga (out June 5th). Weekend Edition interviews John Irving about his new novel In One Person. On the similarities between wrestling and writing "Many of... more info

At the Guardian, Neil Gaiman remembers Maurice Sendak. Sendak, who died this week, did not make books for children. He just made books. His linework was elegant, sometimes even cute, but always honest. He was wise, and he never patronised... more info

ArtsBeat interviews Alison Bechdel about her new graphic novel, Are You My Mother?. You say that your mother referred to this project as a "meta book." Agree? Well, it's a memoir about writing a memoir. That's pretty meta. And it's... more info

LA Weekly examines the branding of the band Best Coast. The New Yorker interviews Art Speigelman about his collaboration with Maurice Sendak. So the strip that was eventually published in The New Yorker is fully a collaboration? Yes. I planned... more info

PopMatters lists 15 overlooked and underrated albums of the 1990s. At Tin House, a collection of authors share their writing habits. Grantland examines the economics behind Mad Men's usage of the Beatles' "Tomorrow Never Knows." AlterNet lists 10 exa... more info

Redeye Chicago interviews singer-songwriter Andrew Bird. You have so many passionate fans, but the people who don’t go for the whistling have a lot of animosity toward that. Why do you think that stirs up such heated emotions in people?... more info

A meager week for new music releases brings a handful of albums I have heard and can recommend, including Here We Go Magic's A Different Ship, Michael Hearst's Songs for Unusual Creatures, Royal Headache's self-titled album, and S. Carey's... more info