- “Chris Lloyd adores a minuet / the Ballets Russes and crepes suzettes / but Foucault loves to rock n’ roll / a hot dog makes him lose control… what a crazy pair!”
- James Yeh and a plate of Korean barbecue co-star in: My Dinner with Shteyngart.
- Deborah Eisenberg reads Wells Tower.
- Open Letters Monthly looks at Landscape in Concrete, a lost classic from the World War II-era featuring a not-so-Übermensch
- What planet are translators from? Paul Verhaeghen spills the beans, in remarks from the PEN festival, (via Three percent)
- Novelist David Francis, guest-posting at TEV, pits the writer’s interests against those of the publishing industry.
- W.W. Norton “friends” the Dalkey Archive.
- Richard Ford tells Nam Le, “Giving a colleague a bad review is like . . . seeing a hitchhiker and rather than picking the hitchhiker up, you run over him.”
- The Second Pass reappraises Denis Johnson’s 1983 Angels (whose characters reappear in Tree of Smoke).
- Finally, a piece on Reif Larsen’s T.S. Spivet that doesn’t mention the size of his advance.
- After only a year, Wyatt Mason’s fine Sentences blog reaches a full stop.
- An amazing and cute fashion blog from a 13-year-old.
- The indie bookstore tour writ large: novelist Mark Fitten is visiting 100 indie bookstores and writing about it. (via Maud)
- Wikipedia find of the week: The Jimmy Carter rabbit incident
