The Guardian’s book blog calls us “Generation Zzz”

what are some criteria you use to evaluate a piece of writing?  or is there a way to avoid doing this altogether that i can’t figure out?  is it specific to each piece of writing or are there some things you feel apply across works?

An excellent and ever-expanding archive of interviews about favorite books and etc., with a wide variety of mostly small press writers at Ravi Mangla’s Recommended Reading, including Mary Miller, Scott Garson, Amelia Gray, Kevin Wilson, Joanna Scott, several HTMLGiant peeps, and countless others.

PH MADORE asked me to post this for him:

if you pledge to write ten (or more) articles over ten (or more) weeks at http://undergroundlibrary.info, i’ll have a free copy of LITTLE WHITE POETRY JOURNAL sent to you. you have to be one of the first five people to pledge.

if you write a decently legit blog/tumblr/whatever post describing how you wish you had a copy in your hands and how much you enjoyed the free online archives, and you are one of the first three people to do this, i will send you a free copy.

there is way more information about little white poetry journal seven at http://lwpj.henrychalise.info. you can also e-mail jac jemc and ask her about it, she edited it after all. i’m just the chump clearing the way for it to happen.

submissions for the eighth issue can be sent to h.chalise@gmail.com, i guess.

I forgot to mention this: Michael Martone’s 4 for a Quarter twitter feed is brilliant.

you can preorder jamie iredell’s debut novel from orange alert press.

Here’s a fun toy! Translation Party translates your English sentences to Japanese, then back to English, then back again, until it achieves equilibrium. Naturally, hilarity ensues.

“Goldman Execs Blame anti-Semitism” for Negative Press About Their Looting, Pillaging, and Defrauding of the Country. And now they’re worried about an even bigger shit-storm coming when they hand out bonuses.

Yes, we all know anti-Semitism exists in the world. Those of us born Semites even smell it from time to time. It’s real. (For example, did you see this totally bizarre video from a Nevada Town Hall event?) But it’s also a pretty safe bet–damn near axiomatic, in fact–that when someone raises the anti-Semitism flag out of nowhere, and twirls it around like a coked-up majorette, time to reach for your wallet and make sure it’s still there. From one Jew to another, Lloyd Blankfein- go fuck yourself.

Charlie Gasparino’s Sympathy for Goldman, at Daily Beast.

Previous post at Giant with link to online copy of Matt Taibbi’s enormous piece on Goldman’s crimes, here.

Extra fun: my old boss, Alexander Cockburn’s “My Life as an ‘anti-Semite’.”

Over at The Faster Times, Rozalia Jovanovic is talking to our man Adam Robinson, about our other man, Shane Jones and The Beauty and Burden of Light Boxes.

NYC REMINDER: Lutz, Schmburg & Krusoe at St. Mark’s series at SOLAS Bar TONIGHT. Details here.