Evan Schaeffer's Legal Underground

MONEY AND FICTION . . . "Pity the novelist who sets out to write about the rich: Demonizing bankers may be an effective political tactic, but it’s not an option for a novelist trying to draw well-rounded characters," writes Christian Lorentzen in Bookforum (link from Arts & Letters Daily).

UPDATE . . . From the Wired Gadget Lab, "iOS 6: A Deeper Look at Its 10 Coolest Features," by Christina Bonnington. (Plus: David Pogue's take at the New York Times.)

BUNK . . . In the New Republic, it's another takedown of Imagine: How Creativity Works, by Jonah Lehrer, a book which includes an explication of how Bob Dylan wrote "Like a Rolling Stone." According to Isaac Chotiner, "There is little to be learned about Bob Dylan, or the creative process more generally, from Jonah Lehrer."

FASTEN . . . How the paper clip came to be, at Slate.

IS THE ANSWER: DOGS? . . . "Neandertals went extinct while modern humans survived"--why? (At American Scientist; link from Arts & Letters Daily).