http://www.nytimes.com/2009/
As the article notes, Open Letter maintains a blog on world literature called Three Percent, and it's outstanding:
http://www.rochester.edu/
A Newsweek columnist, driven mad by Top Ten lists, compiles his Top Ten of the best Top Tens:
http://www.newsweek.com/id/
Julia Keller of the Chicago Tribune has also had it with the lists:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/
Among the notables born on this date are director Gaspar Noe, actor Gerard Depardieu, actor Michel Piccoli, actor Sydney Greenstreet, the incomparable Marlene Dietrich, avant-garde poet Charles Olson, novelist and literary critic Wilfrid Sheed, novelist Louis Bromfield, German novelist and playwright Carl Zuckmayer, Fritz Lang's collaborator and one-time wife Thea von Harbou, pianist/actor/raconteur Oscar Levant, and scientists Johannes Kepler and Louis Pasteur. To celebrate a couple of these, one might take a look at the charming commonplace book Marlene Dietrich's ABC, which is frequently very funny and just as often quite insightful; or play Levant's tremendous recording of Gershwin's Piano Concerto.
