John Updike died in 2009 with a whimper and 100+ books (written or edited). Does anyone care?

What words did you learn from songs? I learned laxative and libido from Nirvana, dildo from Beck.

Tony Tost’s America [via Exoskeleton]

My pal Tommy Z once sent out the same story 54 times. (It was published by Carolina Q.) Your record?

Is there an album or film that has influenced your writing as much as any book?

This week AbeBooks’ Weird Book Room is featuring the Teach Your Chicken to Fly Training Manual. For those cities trying to legalize chicken-cooping within city limits, this book could be dangerous.

An interesting ‘Top 25 Films of the Decade’ list at Hammer To Nail, with a lot of surprising or limited release picks. Netflix.

A new issue of Glitterpony is live with hot poems by Rachel Glaser, Hoa Nguyen, Michelle Taransky and others.

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You do send your Very Best work Every time when submitting to a literary magazine, right?