TT: For those of you just joining us

OGIC and I blogged compulsively on Friday and over the weekend, so if you were too busy dressing up as a sexy ketchup bottle (or recovering from a post-Halloween hangover) to visit us, keep on scrolling until your fingers go numb. Among other things, you’ll find postings on:

The surprise at the end of Mystic River

How E.M. Forster can make you a nicer novelist

Louis Armstrong’s house

Joseph Cornell’s boxes

Ned Beatty, the new Big (not Puff) Daddy

My first visit to a fine-art auction, and how I almost went bankrupt before I finally put down my paddle and slunk away

The implausibility of The Human Stain

Super-expensive art and the wild and crazy gazillionaires who buy it

Plus other good stuff, including loads of links to other people’s good stuff.

We’re both kind of busy this week, so clean your plate before you ask for another helping…and buy my book!