George Lois on design.

Any questions?

Kathy Acker reads “The Diseased,” a translation, by a 12 yr old girl, at the Ear Inn, November 11, 1978.

New Liars track from their forthcoming Sisterworld is exciting. Musics.

Not sure I agree with a single film on the New Yorker’s Best of 2009 list, at least of the ones I’ve seen. Judd Apatow? Really? Actually, I can’t remember seeing much of anything good in the theater not only this year, but recent years before. Antichrist is the only exception, my list of one for 2009. What are some other films worth seeing from this’n?

The New Yorker has an excerpt from David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King, ‘All That’. Feel kind of immensely scared to read.

People of WalMart is a hundred novels. [via Blythe Winslow]

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How does your writing or creative states affect your sleep?

Reup on two Diane Williams interviews, old and new, (1) by John O’Brien at Dalkey Archive, and (2) by Kevin Sampsell at New York Tyrant: “My motive is to break up and reorganize. My prayer is that a new object may be revealed. An object can be seen with clarity and still be mysterious. I love Magritte’s observation that the mind loves mystery because the mind knows that it is mysterious.”