In which Javier Bardem brings you a spaghetti dinner

Two book-related tips in the NYT's Crib Sheet this week:

6. Themed merchandise for EAT, PRAY, LOVE is in stores. Think I'll wait for THE GLASS CASTLE raggedy pants and bindle.

7. Bret Easton Ellis has written a sequel to LESS THAN ZERO. It’s a miracle that any of those characters are still alive.

Three if you count the Shakespeare reference, which I don't.

These are zings of the highest order, but what's funny about the EAT, PRAY, LOVE merch is that of the two stores that are carrying it, neither has any designated space on their Websites or specific call-outs to the collections. (According to this site, they are manufactured by Dogeared, who similarly has buried them.) It's almost as if they are ashamed! And they should be, because this stuff is a cash grab and I'm sure on some deep sub-economic level Elizabeth Gilbert is regretting them too. Maybe I just want to believe that so I don't have to think about the implications.