This week: Actor Harry Dean Stanton shows off his singing … Poet Patricia Lockwood revisits childhood … Why Lyndon Johnson fascinates us, fifty years later … Former frontman of The Walkman on his soulful solo debut … Baseball excellence, naturally … The arc of history bends towards better booze … One sleepy rabbit with a speech impediment … An unheard of use of science to re-grow Van Gogh’s severed ear … Common takes his backpack to Def Jam … And Lizzie and Dan Post, breaking hearts all across Vermont.