- Obama brings hope, change to the publishing industry.
- I hope that I shall never see / A book of Palin’s poetry.
- The Nation talks with the journalist who helped research 2666.
- Chuck Klosterman gets in the ring with Axl, Bucket and, uh…hey, man, remind me who else is in this band?
- How is a Snopes like a Lebowski? More Intelligent Life counts the ways.
- The new online magazine Flyp offers a “truly interactive” look at Jeffrey Eugenides.
- Ed and his doppelganger Bat have put together a three DVD set of the complete interviews of Bat Segundo, for sale now on the sidebar of the Bat site.
- The Quarterly Conversation issue 14 is now out, featuring considerations of Gaddis and Bukowski and an opportunity to win every single one of Roberto Bolaño’s works available in English.
- We were lucky enough to join some accomplished company in Blogs.com’s list of the 10 Best Literature Blogs, curated by Largehearted Boy.
- Speaking of Largehearted Boy, he has posted his top albums of 2008 list.
- The Bad Sex in Fiction Award announces its distinguished list of finalists. And the winner is Shire Hell by Rachel Johnson, with a Lifetime Achievement Award going to John Updike.
- The Washington Post profiles M.T. Anderson, the D.F. Wallace of Young Adult literature.
- And, following up on our Wallace Shawn posts, here’s audio of the man himself, reading James Comey’s testimony before Congress.