What to Book: You’re weird. And you should feel pretty good about that. Olga Khazan’s, Weird: The Power of Being an Outsider in an Insider World, looks at how some people have turned being weird into a superpower.

+ What to Doc: Spike Jonze new documentary, Beastie Boys Story, is a much-watch for NextDraft readers (who love nothing more than Jewish guys who treat word play like foreplay.) I am the king of boggle/there is none higher/I get 11 points off the word quagmire.

+ What to Read: “The deadly episode stood for a bitterly divided era. Did we ever leave it?” Jill Lepore in The New Yorker: Kent State and the War That Never Ended.