Three things

that have helped ease me into the weekend:

• José Saramago's declaration that he hasn't been resurrected, he's simply returned and feels "extraordinarily well" after his bout with an illness that brought him to the brink of death at the age of 85.
  
• The Literary Saloon's posting of the photo of The Original of Laura.
• Sara Ivry's conversation with Aleksandar Hemon about The Lazarus Project.