Are you going to AWP? Why for?

1. Another excellent interview by Kimball at the Faster Times with Christopher Higgs.
2. Artifice Magazine is selling a special edition of their first issue, as well as beautiful screenprint illustrations of the works inside it.
3. The most majestic Matt Jasper’s Moth Moon is now live on sale, some of which you may have seen, or should now, in his chapbook from Publishing Genius.

fucking windows.

Laura Ellen Scott gives 21 writing tips, including, “13. Write what you know, especially you white people out there” and “17. Italics, italics, italics. Especially for flashbacks.” This is the sort of sharing the Internet was invented for.

NYC Area Alert Quad-shot:

First off, rival readings on Friday the 26th: Celebrate the fifth anniversary of Earshot!, the venerable series hosted by Nicole Steinberg. The reading will feature my buddy Jeff Johnson, Kate Greenstreet, Jennifer Firestone, Megan Williams, and Margarita Delcheva. It’s in Williamsburg, BK. Directions here. That same night, over at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe, Joanna Smith Rakoff will mark the paperback release of her novel, A Fortunate Age (NYT Editors’ pick; IndieNext pick; B&N First Look Club; SFChronicle best-seller–wow, not bad, right?) with a little help from the M Shanghai String Band and something called the Story Pirates. Also, JSR will be reading with yours truly at Oblong Books in Rhinebeck, NY on March 11. Yes, that one banner thing says the 13th, but don’t believe it. All the other stuff says the 11th, which is a Thursday. But in between the 26th and the 11th is March 4th, which is the day of the 2nd annual Canteen magazine gala fundraiser, which is offering some seriously schmancy good-times. Tickets are on a sliding scale, beginning at $75 and going as high as $1000+. These guys are emphatically not screwing around. Just for showing up you get cocktails and hors d’oeuvres from a Michelin-starred chef, recognition on the Canteen donor page, a copy of the magazine, and your literary fortune told by Porochista Khakpour and, um, me. Higher-level donors can get–among other things–a cocktails class with a mixologist from Per Se, a private tour of “a major museum collection” led by Arnold Lehman, the director of The Brooklyn Museum and also, the host of the event (it’s being held at his house). So if you’re up for feeling like part of High Society (don’t click that- nsfw), you can buy a ticket here (click this- it’s totally sfw).

The 2nd edition of our Live Giants live online reading series, originally scheduled for tomorrow with the inestimable Dorothea Lasky, has unfortunately needed to be pushed back due to some personal constraints. Instead, Dottie will be reading here, live on the site, next Wednesday 3/3 at 9 PM. Please update your personal reminder devices accordingly. Those who have seen Dottie read know that this is not to be missed. In the meantime, you can use this leeway space to, if you happened to have not, acquaint yourself with Dottie’s AWE, truly one of the most fun and heartraw books of poems I’ve read in a long time, or to get excited for her soon forthcoming second book, also from Wave Books, the excellently titled Black Life. I’ve already begun digging in, and let me tell you: hold onto your head. See you next Wednesday!

The Millions drops a handy guide to online fiction.

Yeehaw! New issue of Forklift, Ohio! Go get one!

I read the first 60 pages of Joshua Cohen’s 800 page forthcoming Witz last night on my sofa. Holy fuck. Put your pants on. Mark your calendars. More on this later, but I just had to…

Whoa, you’d be crazy not to read “Object,” by Richard Wehrenberg, Jr over at Slingshot, then say something about it somewhere on the Internet. These “please help” campaigns are risky, but I appreciate the faith, passion and sacrifice that goes into them. Sacrifice? Well, damn, Josh Kleinberg is giving away a bunch of (20) really great books to people who do him the kindness of promoting the stories. 75% of the books, he says, will be hard for him to part with. Go take a look. (Google alerted me to this deal because one of the books he’s giving away is mine. Thanks Josh!)