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11 of the 20 titles on last week’s NYT Mass-Market Fiction Best Sellers list have death in the title. (via Dan Kennedy)

I finally got another bookshelf and have a place for all my books now. But what do I do with the dozens of MLP chapbooks that I have? I want to take them out of their drawer, but then where will I put them? Does anyone already have a solution? Something like what they got for my One Story collection?

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I focus on surfaces, since learning that Diego’s dying. On shallow stuff. I colect photos of handsome strangers, and endless gigabytes of porn. The scenes I like best lack plots and characters and sets—just boys in bedrooms, tearing each other up, snarling, cursing, savage. The perfection of pornography is that no one owes anybody anything afterwards, there’s no human contact, no messiness, shallowness. Sex for cowards. – from “Sex, Death, Facebook” at The Rumpus. Also, don’t forget the Rumpus Sunday Book Review supplement.

Two more good ways to blow a bunch of money: Criterion is running a 40% off Essential Art House sale & Dalkey Archive just announced their incredible slew of forthcoming fall and winter 09/10 books. Shit.

Julia Wertz—the elegant and demure flower behind the comic Fart Party—has a chronic condition, no health insurance, and a giant bill from a recent emergency room trip. So she’s having a fundraiser. Also, health care reform is insane and socialist, and our current system is completely awesome and also “death panels” or something.

Re: that new language that Blake is looking for in which to write a book, here it is.

Damnit, I feel revitalized.  Go read Modern Love, at Everyday Genius. Now that’s a story.  Bravo!

“The problem with the Milky Way is that we are inside the Milky Way.”  –from a (fairly basic) article about galactic cannibalism.