Movies are remade all the time.  Why not books?

How many of us are going to AWP in Denver in February April? What will we Giants—I count the commenters and readers here—do to take over?

Is an Asian who has never seen Asia more equipped to write about Asia than a not Asian? Furthermore, is an Asian who grew up and spent his or her whole life in Asia more equipped to write about Asia than a not Asian?

Over at The Nation, Scott Saul makes the case for Eliot Weinberger’s new collection of essays.

The pieces in Oranges and Peanuts for Sale cover a wide range of topics–the arts under the Bush administration, Obama’s presidential campaign, ancient and contemporary Chinese poetry, the color blue, exoticism, the relationship between Samuel Beckett and Octavio Paz–but are knit together by a sensibility that prizes exactitude in its formulations yet is open to the unpredictable complications of the larger world. Put another way: weak prose and parochialism are two of Weinberger’s chief enemies. One of the delights of reading his essays is that they reveal the interconnections between the two; the Wittgensteinian idea that the limits of one’s language are the limits of one’s world becomes, in his hands, a tool for revealing the blind spots common to our culture.

I’m sold.

i enjoyed reading this story by kevin wilson. i also enjoyed the apple i just ate.  in conclusion, if you are looking for two enjoyable things, there is this story by kevin wilson, or the apple that i just ate.

Bad book titles seem harder than good book titles. What’s the worst title of a book you ever heard?

‘N plus one is to thinking as a Renaissance Festival is to warfare.’

I had a dream in which I posted something on HTML Giant. When I woke up, I couldn’t remember the post, only that I thought it was pretty good. What do you think I posted about?

For all you Chicago HTMLreaders, Brian Evenson will be reading tonight (with Tod Goldberg and David Taylor) at the Bookslut Reading Series, at 7:30 at the Hopleaf. Evenson! Beer! Beer! Evenson!

Stephen Elliott forwarded this to me. It was sent to him by a fan named Vicki Gundrum. She created some metrics for Stephen’s The Adderall Diaries. They’re funny and interesting. I turned them into a PDF and now you can view them by clicking here: Metrics for The Adderall Diaries. NYC People Reminder: Stephen’s at Joe’s Pub tonight and Bookcourt (launch party) tomorrow night.