It’s been a while, but never fear, I have a super-dulux-bumper-edition of the Friday Feeling to tickle your frontal lobes in time for the weekend.

I’ve been on here before raving about Christopher Potter’s You Are Here, so I won’t mention again how completely brilliant it is and how anyone interested in how the universe works should go and read it immediately.  What I will say however is that you could do worse than start with this very cool animation that shows you your place in the universe, with has extracts of the book next to it.

Does finding out a writer who you admire is in life thoroughly nasty make a difference to how you read them? And can their weaknesses as people be what drives their art? This article discusses the issues through the troubled lives of Naipaul, Larkin and Dickens. And which crazy writer are you? Take this quiz to find out. I got Thomas Pyncheon…hmmm….

Ever wanted to bask in the cocktail-quaffing, long lunch-having ease of a job in the media-journalism-publishing industries? Here’s your perfect opportunity! 

It will shock you to learn that even publishers make the odd mistake sometimes. Some of these mistakes are worth a pretty penny, if you’re eagle eyed enough to spot them: do you have any on your shelves?

Finding out what was happening on your birthday 300-years-ago was probably not what the British Library had in mind when it announced this project, but I’m willing to bet that’s what most people will use it for.

And this has nothing to do with books, but everything to do with AC/DC, for which I make no apology.