From EW, an interview with David Sedaris on When You Are Engulfed in Flames (and here's an exhaustive guide — for would-be writers and readers alike — to years of autobiography overload). Can a Platonic relationship turn passionate? And if it could, would you want it to? As with century-old debates between suffragettes and abolitionists, the debate has veered toward which disadvantaged group has suffered more. From The Politico, a look at how Drudge keeps campaigns guessing. From Harper's, an interview with Jeff Sharlet, author of The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power; and readers have heard more than a little about that incomplete and unpublished novel, once at risk of being burned in accordance with authorial fiat but now to be published sometime hence as Vladimir

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