There is some amazing documentation about the creation of a trio of broadsides over at the NewLights Press IDE(A/O)(B)LOG(Y/UE). The broadsides are from Justin Sirois, Brian Evenson and John Yau.

The last 8 posts are filled with some truly amazing stuff.

Photographer Hasisi Park’s information page reads like a short story.

Apologies if it’s been a week of too much shop talk, but here goes: Isn’t a human being more complex than any fantasy, literary theory, metaphysic, fictive conceit, etc., we can dream up? And, if so, what do you take away from that, if anything?

hahaclever.com is the new pets.com/community/fun-extras

The Rumpus now has a funny woman writer, Wendy Molyneux, who managed to write this humor column before reporting to her “regular day job knitting tampon cozies and being best friends with everybody.”

One of my favorite writers, new or ever, Sean Kilpatrick, has selections from his novel Sucker June online now at Spork. I mean, these are sentences. In the worst way. “He’ll cream himself flowery and miss my big holy penetration.”

Jonathan Lethem brings us issue 7 of THE THING, a quarterly in object form in which invited artists, writers, etc. create/curate an issue.

Lots of recent activity at the Underground Library, mostly thanks to Dave Clapper and Ellentparker. Feel free to build from what they’ve done or add a new entry. Madore wants significantly to expand the database by the end of 2010.

Ani Smith interviews HTMLGIANT contributor Mike Young for Writers’ Bloc. Contains awesome original song.

Open question. You have probably on your own come up with your 15 living towering literary artists, right? Now make a list of your 15 favorite living literary artists. These list are maybe close. Maybe, though, they are very different. Why? What does this say about what you like and what you recognize as “important?”