Welcome to Radar, our (with any luck) weekly roundup of what we’re reading from the literary web (and beyond).

• This week, several of The Journal editors were lucky enough to spend time with Joy Castro (Hell and High Water, The Truth Book), who has been kind enough to share several of her essays and other short pieces about writing and craft in a post over on her blog.
• A cache of P.G. Wodehouse’s previously unknown early work was discovered in a newspaper archive in Leeds, England.
• At Ploughshares, Rebecca Makkai (The Borrower) writes a fan letter (with a little help from OSU’s very own Nick White!) to children’s author (and all around legend) Lois Lowry.
• Speaking of Lowry: If you haven’t had the pleasure of reading Dan Kois’s stellar profile of her in the New York Times Magazine (published in October of last year), please rectify that now.
• Following Michelle Cottle’s article calling Michelle Obama a “feminist nightmare,” Melissa Harris-Perry has offered up a syllabus on black feminism (including works by Angela Davis, bell hooks, and Audra Lorde) on the MSNBC website. I certainly want to take that class.
• Junot Diaz stops by the Fanbros podcast to talk Star Trek, Star Wars, and more.
• In honor of World AIDS Day, writer Libba Bray writes a remembrance of her father and her friend Norbert, who both died of the disease.
• Writer and critic Carl Wilson (author of the stupendous Let’s Talk About Love: A Journey To The End of Taste) gives you 20 songs for the holiday shopping season over at Hazlitt.
• At the new, much discussed BuzzFeed Books, Pulitzer Prize–winner Adam Johnson (The Orphan Master’s Son) suggests some serious literature to help you keep things in perspective this holiday season.
• Finally, over at The Cut, Carla Blumenkranz, Emily Gould, and Emily Witt talk with n+1 editor Dayna Tortorici about what it means to be a woman reading “midcentury misogynists” like Roth, Bellow, and Updike.

That’s all for this week! Be sure to follow us (@OSUtheJournal) on Twitter!