This past week saw the release of the final volume in Holy Soul Jelly Roll: Poems & Songs 1949-1993, a collection of recordings—some of which never before released—by Allen Ginsberg. This volume contains the “stunning 1956 Berkeley Town Hall reading of Ginsberg’s seminal poem ‘Howl.’” The volumes are for sale on iTunes, but you can also listen to an “8 song sampler” over on OpenCulture for free.
Audio Ginsberg
The Taksim Square Book Club
The book club has turned into a form of protest. Inspired by “The Standing Man,” the Turkish demonstrator who stood for six hours in a silent vigil, protesters are silently standing while reading books. The Al Jazeera photo-essay shows Nietzsche, Camus, and Orwell as popular picks.
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Best American Books On Sale
Pretty good deal on Amazon today: All the e-book versions of the "Best American" books are $1.99.
Book Cover Beauties
Snazzy speculative book covers for some Jules Verne classics. (via)
An Interview With Marilynne Robinson
Read here, in the University of Washington's alumni magazine, about how Marilynne Robinson approaches a book's essence as "an elaborate needlepoint of decisions and observations"; how novels visit upon her as surprises; and how her recent move to New York might spawn yet another gift to readers.
Fair Warning for Writers
Joe Hiland, The Indiana Review's fiction editor, has some advice for writers who submit to his (or any) magazine. He also lists "the three types of stories I most often reject because I feel like I’ve read them before."
What We Need Is
You may have heard about Google Poetics, which compiles Google Autocomplete entries that add up to a Horse_ebooks-like whole. At The Toast, Emma Jones takes these entries and writes them up as poetry proper.
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