Weekend reads: Week of November 19, 2023

In honor of Thanksgiving, we're calling this collection the leftover edition — see what we've bookmarked but not gotten around until sharing, until now.

• Kurt Vonnegut thought Bob Dylan was “the worst poet alive” (Literary Hub)

• When to start reading to babies (BookRiot)

• What Britney Spears's book taught me about resilience and self love (NPR)

• How a musical adaptation of Tolstoy helped us get through the pandemic (Literary Hub)