What is the most played song in your iTunes, how many plays.

Nice William Burroughs interview with the Paris Review [via Josh Maday’s twitter feed, which is always linking great web things, follow him.]

INTERVIEWER: Is it true that you did a great deal of acting out to create your characters when you were finishing Naked Lunch?

BURROUGHS: Excuse me, there is no accurate description of the creation of a book, or an event.

The robbery charges against a 19-year-old were dropped because he had posted “Where are my pancakes?” as his Facebook status from his father’s computer at the time of the crime. One expert thinks the charges were dropped too hastily: “Some of the brightest people on the Internet are teenagers,” he said. “They know the Internet better than a lot of people. Why? Because they use it all the time.” So sinister!

How do the titles of your works happen to you?

Johannes Göransson has posted an excerpt of Joyelle McSweeney’s lecture on Bataille, Bolano, and Garland at his blog: the rest, as well as the fantastic full panel, is still available in the current Fence. “And they all spread from the same womb, the same womb or entrails, and their high fashion, their cloaks and adorned, bulletproof ghost shirts, cover over it until it can’t.”

Which author has the biggest butt you’ve seen?

Another killer interview from Michael Kimball, this time with Brian Evenson, at the Faster Times.

30 Places to Watch Free Movies Online [via Condalmo]

In the interest of a year of interesting book but blank systems, please comment with one title of a book released in 2009 that you really enjoyed for whatever reason. This will in some way form not a ‘best of’ list, but a reference tablet for enjoyable new text.

More Bas Jan Ader.