Dogs and pigs, living together — what's the world coming to if not one giant, adorable menagerie in which all the fuzzy animals love and nuzzle each other and all the bugs leave on a spaceship for a planet where they'll be more appreciated? It also seems about right to echo David Foster Wallace's incredulity at the…

You asked, we answered! If you're getting a sugar crash from trashy-reading but still want to spend the remaining summer months with a completely absorbing book, you're in luck: We've assembled 10 of our all-time favorite respectable page-turners!

"The glory of the work and the tragedy of the life are relations but not friends, informants but not intimates. Exult in one; weep for the other." — Tom Bissell on David Foster Wallace [NYT]

D.T. Max has a heart-wrenching piece about David Foster Wallace in this week's New Yorker, including a description of his unfinished novel and new insight from friends and loved ones about his life and death.

John Krasinski, the actor best known as Jim from The Office, says he's proud of his directorial debut, which he calls a “feminist movie.”

Newsweek has a roundup of famous people who died in 2008 — here are some of the ones we'll miss the most, along with a few additions from our archives.

It's hard to decide which is better: the oceans of blue liquid we are confronted with nowadays or the David Foster Wallace novel that is this Kotex ad from 1947. "Discreet" does not begin to describe it; the sanitary napkins are concealed within layers of teen-friendly prose, topics ranging from how to accept a…