Two words: hubba hubba.

Famed grumpypants V.S. Naipaul, whose novel A Bend in the River makes us violently sleepy, thinks Jane Austen—and all women!—are sentimental

This slideshow thrills me—look at wrinkly old Dorothy Parker ignoring that male model! Whatta woman!

It also makes me long for the days before Facebook, when writers could get work done without moving into a new apartment just to get away from the internet.