In a memoir she plans to publish in 2015, Yoko Ono is apparently set to reveal why the Beatles broke up. For those of you who are worried that you might not be alive five years from now to learn the shocking truth, we provide this brief spoiler of the reason for the band's dissolution: They weren't really getting on well with each other at the time. Now you know!

I keep remembering, and then forgetting, that Ralph Nader has just published a novel. It doesn't sound so great, and also a little broad-strokingly Randian, according to Awl pal Seth Colter Walls: "But unlike the author of a tome as worshipfully phallocentric as The Fountainhead, the consumer advocate turned third-party presidential candidate doesn't know from sex appeal. When Nader writes about an 'aroused citizenry,' he means a public eager to fill up its free hours with the business of joining consumer unions." Hilariously, Nader made contact, before publication, with all the people whose names he used in the book. Of course, this resulted in the world's most hilarious [...]