Just like this picture, these stories are too good to pass up. Here’s this week’s recommended reading from online magazines. Fiction so good it’ll leave a tattoo on your head!

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The Best Minds Of A Generation

What’s going to happen tomorrow? We don’t know. What’s going to happen after that? We don’t know that either. All we know is what we read. And what we read, for today at least, speaks volumes about the utter fragility of life. Now that might sound like some pretty heavy stuff for a Monday morning (especially when many of us are contemplating the direction of our lives as we sit in our cubicles) but we want to insist it’s not all bad, or heavy. Because as long as books are around, we’ll be happy. Still, it’s important to consider that life is brief, and to take stock while you can. Recently deceased writer Tim Guest took stock of his life by penning a moving memoir. Now the Guardian is remembering him, and exploring the man behind the orange clothes. Ian McEwan has lived a long, productive life. What does his latest title say about mortality? Find out in Book Forum. A new book called From Old Notebooks is collecting accolades, literary criticism is put on the chopping block, and short-story writer Lydia Davis sees her dreams realized in the New Yorker. Elsewhere, Malena Watrous’s debut novel is reviewed in the Rumpus and Kurt Vonnegut leads his readers on a tour across the blackboard. Oh this literary lifestyle, it’ll be the the death of us! — Kevin Murphy

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