Well, I could have congratulated National Book Award winner Jaimy Gordon on her excellent taste in graduate schools, but she told a crowd in Brooklyn on Wednesday it was the proximity to horse-racing tracks that made her decision, so... In other last-week NBA news, Patti Smith announced she is working on a follow-up to memoir JUST KIDS -- a curiosity since the book covers her whole life, but I can think of some years that might be well fleshed out.