Fictionaut has posted William Walsh’s writing space.

sean lovelace releases his new chapbook HOW SOME PEOPLE LIKE THEIR EGGS (rose metal press) onto the world much like a mean janitor releasing the class pet just to make everyone sad.  read an excerpt here.  the excerpt is really good.  it has fullness.

NEW WORD RIOT UP

Earlier today, one of my favorite editors asked me to be part of a “best of the decade” theme issue his magazine is doing later this year. This wasn’t a proper assignment, he just wanted me to name some books–fiction or non-, but not poetry–that I thought were among the best published in the last ten years. I have no idea how many people he asked to do this, and I don’t know whether the nominations will be aggregated into a master “top however many” list. Or maybe we’ll each get one or two picks and a note explaining them. I’ll let you know when the issue comes out. But in the meantime, I thought it might be interesting and fun to pass the question along to all of you. What do you think are three of the best books published in the last ten years? Leave it in the comments section.

(via Best American Poetry blog) “The Revenge of the Epigoni” by Lynn Chu, on why the Google settlement sucks. Thing is, Chu pretty much starts in the middle of the argument, so going to the BestAmPo post first for some context is actually a pretty good idea.

‘When 140 characters isn’t nearly enough’ (via mjellsworth).

Just putting this out there into the world. If I stipulate that you are within your constitutional right to do so, would you consider maybe NOT BRINGING A FUCKING GUN to an Obama Health Care town hall, anyway? Could this be one of those, “Sure, I can do it, but I’m not going to” sorts of things?

Gary Shteyngart reads/performs a bit from Gogol’s Dead Souls; he first reads in English and then in Russian. Really fascinating to hear it in Russian. The reading was part of 92Y Poetry Center’s celebration of Gogol’s 200th birthday on March 30th.

I needed a new bookshelf. before breaking down and ordering one from Staples.com ($49.99 for a wooden 5-shelf) I decided to try the thrift store next door to my apartment. They have a ton of bookshelves, apparently NONE of which are for sale. Probably this is because they’re covered in books which ARE for sale. I didn’t need any books. In fact, books are why I was having this whole shelf-problem in the first place. But then, there, sitting on top of a pile (and btw, if you’re just going to pile the books anyway, why not sell me the shelf? piles work even better on floors than on shelves) I spotted Confucius to Cummings: An Anthology of Poetry edited by Ezra Pound and Marcella Spann. Mine for one hot crumpled dollar bill. No tax. From the back cover: “It is a statement by example of the ‘Pound critical canon’ and, as such, a short course in the history of world poetry…” It will have pride of place on my new bookshelf, which Staples will be delivering sometime tomorrow, along with the pink plastic pencil case ($.50) I ordered to tip the total price over the $50 line and therefore earn free shipping.

The Center for the Art of Translation has a new blog, Two Words.