Some hot buttered links to get you thinking? The first one involves money. Big Money.

1. The James Patterson phenomena! How does Patterson keep five separate lines of books going every year and pile up $1.5 BILLION in sales per annum? Teamwork, baby, teamwork.

2. “The Bonesetter’s Daughter”: how revolutionary IS the new Stewart Wallace-Amy Tan opera? The NY Times’ Anthony Tommasini and the San Francisco Chronicle’s Joshua Kosman were consulting their superlatives dictionary.

3. The importance of the site: theater is the theater. Well, maybe. LA Times theater critic Charles McNulty argues against Peter Brook’s famous “open theater” formulation, suggesting that local conditions affect productions in important ways. The article takes a quick tour of LA’s theater spaces and their “meaning”.