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Tao Lin was on Bookworm today. Major kudos to Tao and Michael for providing the conversation.

new issue of KILL AUTHOR.

also, i know who the editors are.  the editors are all the good little children around the world.

Wow: “Eclipse is a free on-line archive focusing on digital facsimiles of the most radical small-press writing from the last quarter century. Eclipse also publishes carefully selected new works of book-length conceptual unity.” They have books by Rae Armantrout, Charles Bernstein, Christian Bök, Lyn Hejinian, Susan Howe, Aram Saroyan, and countless others, all archived on their site for free download and perusal.

Some British guy is saying Jesus came to England to “study” and build a church because ” little was known about his life before age 30.” Sure! Why not? I have a feeling this guy is some kind of reincarnation of Chaucer’s Pardoner, because  little is known about the afterlife. More importantly, what degree would Jesus get? I’m thinking an MFA. Best attempt at His first submission to His poetry workshop wins my blessing and/or the bones of a dead pig saint.

There is no reason to see the film version of The Road. Sure, it looks OK, and the acting is OK, but if you’ve read it, it’s a word for word thing mostly, and takes away from the imagination. It actually kind of made me despise the book, which had managed to make it past even Oprah. Corn.

Anne Boyer whose book, ART IS WAR, from the awesome Mitzvah Chaps, packs a punch, and who wrote other notable books and some  poems and a krazy kewl website/metaphor for poetry (?) also runs a site where she explores Books Of Poetry in an invigorating and edifying way. It’s not terribly new, but I just read it for the first time. From the sidebar: (more…)

they started filming noah cicero’s THE HUMAN WAR.  you can follow the filming on this site.  i have a review copy of noah’s next book THE INSURGENT and i will be reviewing it soon.

Some handy villagers in England have created a tiny lending library inside an old red phone box. It is fortunate, I think, that libraries caught on several centuries ago, for I bet if libraries were first invented today, nobody would think it was a very clever idea. A place where you can borrow good things for free, sponsored by the government? Hell, naw!

“Yar yar yar.”: 45 minutes of Fugazi stage banter. If someone crowd surfed at your reading, would you be angry, proud, or confused?