Guernica is in the process of serializing a novella by Jesse Ball titled Pieter Emily, part 1 is live now. A sentence: “If I were to go first into a house of stone, and then into a house of wood, and then into a house of straw, and then into a bare roof set upon poles, and then to lie upon the empty ground beneath the sky with a blanket, and then even to cast the blanket aside and lie in the cold on the open ground, would you not think that I was making a grave for myself?”

The Puschart Prize nomination collaboration/purchase project is now closed. We have 65 people signed up. If you are still interested, you’re welcome to comment on that post so that I’ve got a backup list of people to contact in case someone else drops out. Thanks to everyone for signing up; instructions to follow in an email from Shya and me.

“Turdsworth”

Please somebody in NYC do this and write an article about it. Unlimited iced tea!

Nabokov edits Kafka’s The Metamorphosis.

3 a.m. starts new press.

article about the split between what is called academic and what is called avant garde.

David Cronenberg is remaking The Fly, directed by David Cronenberg.

Also, the Disney-helmed adaptation of The Diary of Anne Frank-written by David Mamet–isn’t turning out as planned.

Pequin what is going on? Are you okay? You’ve been on hiatus for almost 5 months. We miss your almost-daily stories. We noticed you were not reading new submissions to catch up on the back log, but now you aren’t posting any either (great “random link” code from mainpage, btw). Anyways, we hope everything is okay and that you will come back soon.

Awesome interview with awesome Joyelle McSweeney @ Rob Mclennan’s blog | “What made you write, as opposed to doing something else?” Lack of imagination.