Saturday Morning Links: Stalingrad, Soviets, Pulp, Sci-Fi, Cryptoids, and Stephen King

By Lucy Steigerwald On February 2, 2013 · In History, Link, Lists, Morning links, Politics, War · Add Comment

Stalingrad is back! Yeah, why not name your city after the one of the top three dictators of all time and a battle that killed a million people?
Speaking of Stalingrad, that battle ended 70 years ago this weekend, and here is what FDR wrote to Stalin on that occasion.
Not safe for work — unless your work is i09 — 1930s pulp. It’s okay, it’s the weekend.
The Awl on Art Bell, the spooky, original host of Coast to Coast AM. The same blog with a guide to cryptoids from every American state.
Also, Moynihan, when I see “shock” in a headline, I never, ever click. And yet, somehow I have read Drudge.
“For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off From All Human Contact, Unaware of World War II”
Slate on nuclear monster movies.
Radley Balko loves The Oxford American‘s annual music issue. Because Radley knows things even beyond saving dudes from death row.
Stephen King talks about his new sequel to The Shining [via @andy_levy]
Wil Wheaton on how he was a big, awkward tool during his Star Trek years. It’s cute as hell.