I should probably rename this regular feature, as it often spotlights artists, musicians, and other creative-types. Until I decide on a new one (suggestions welcome!), however, Book Nerd Links it shall remain.

• The Perseverance of Eve Babitz [THE PARIS REVIEW]
• Step Inside Louise Bourgeois’s Beautifully Sacred Realm [ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST]
• The Interior Decorators of Bloomsbury [THE PARIS REVIEW]
• Literary Critic Harold Bloom has died at 89. [LITERARY HUB]

Nina Hamnett by Roger Fry (1917). (c) University of Leeds Art Collection and Gallery; Supplied by The Public Catalogue Foundation. Public Domain.