The Velvet Underground is suing to protect its iconic banana logo.
“I’m Waiting for the Man” to stop exploiting our logo
Twain and Keller
Recommended Reading: An excerpt from The Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2 in which the author has dinner with Helen Keller.
Today in Irish Poetry
Need a dose of new Irish poetry in your life? The Irish Times (naturally) has you covered. In the Saturday edition, John McAuliffe reviews two new and notable collections: The Boys of Bluehill by Eilean Ni Chuilleanain and The Days of Surprise by Paul Durcan.
Appearing Elsewhere
My essay on Zadie Foster Franzenides and the current state of literary aesthetics is in this weekend's New York Times Magazine.
What Katy Meant
Recommended Reading: Lindsay Palka's essay on the children's book What Katy Did.
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LA Review of Self-Published Books
The Los Angeles Review will start reviewing one self-published book each month. They plan on applying "the same standards of good literature" to their reviews of self-published content as they do to traditionally published content.
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Byliner takes a book off of Amazon
Byliner, the experimental e-publisher of novella length nonfiction, had to take Buzz Bissinger's "After Friday Night Lights" off of Amazon when the mega-seller's price-matching algorithm tried to sell the book for nothing.
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Lev Grossman on Aspiring Writers
Lev Grossman offers some words of encouragement for aspiring writers: "because it turns out that talent, whatever that is, and that glowy aura, are only part of the picture."
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