For #fridayreads here are some shorter lunchtime selections

It's Friday again, which means #fridayreads on Twitter and elsewhere.

If you're looking for something shorter than "1Q84" or "11/22/63," here are links to some of the articles and websites that caught my eye this week:

• Mental Floss: "How Paperbacks Transformed the Way Americans Read" by Andrew Shaffer
  
• The Atlantic: "Errol Morris Takes on the Jeffrey MacDonald Case" by Wendy Kaminer
• The New York Times' City Room blog: "Throughout the City, a New Generation of Street Signs" by David W. Dunlap (far more fascinating than it sounds!)
• WFMU's Beware of the Blog: "The Reel Night John Lennon Died" (from 2006)

And, from the Hall of Fame, if you've never read Richard Preston's long 1992 piece for The New Yorker called "The Mountains of Pi," I urge you to do so. You won't be able to finish it over lunch, but it's a terrific weekend read if you have an hour or so.

Happy reading!