Yale University Press is publishing a book about the Danish Mohammed political cartoon controversy from a few years back. But, for fear of violence, this academic study of a dozen political cartoons is being published without the cartoons it is studying. Assholes. But don’t let me get all pissed about this. Here’s Hitch at Slate, pissed enough for all of us.

kari freitag showed me this website.  scroll through it.  it’s really great.  here are three of the pictures i really liked (click on them once to make them full size):

the whole website is filled with them.  they are nice to look at and also seem to mean a lot when you think about them.

I know our globe-trotting fearless leader will appreciate this link. The most recent Stones Throw record podcast is a mixtape by Madlib celebrating the 10th anniversary of Lootpack’s seminal Soundpieces.

It’s a criticism double-shot.

“This Planet is Not Yours to Rule” – n+1’s latest buckshot blast of capsule movie reviews by A.S. Hamrah. >>This second Transformers film is garbage, a big pile of useless scrap and refuse in every way, but there are shots in it of plastic beauty which use Megan Fox’s stress-tested porno face like an element in a James Rosenquist painting of car parts and spaghetti. But so what? James Rosenquist paintings already exist. <<

“In the Theater of Isak Dinesen” – by Joanna Scott at The Nation. >>Confession doesn’t leave much room for imagination except to demand its allegiance to the personal, which may leave readers less inclined to find value in the extravagant lies of fiction. It’s understandable, then, but no less disappointing, that the tales of Isak Dinesen–filled with children who dream too much, fat old nobles who are devoted to revenge, nuns who are good at weaving, servants who are good at cooking–would be easy to overlook.<<

Where I Write: Fantasy & Science Fiction Authors in Their Creative Spaces (via Michael Hemmingson on facebook)

Chris Killen’s choose your own adventure is brilliant.

That Lost dude bought film rights to Stephen King’s Dark Tower series for $19.00.

Don’t know if we covered this already, but last Friday Starcherone Books announced that Alissa Nutting’s manuscript Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls won the 6th Starcherone Prize for Innovative Fiction.

Greying Ghost/Corduroy Mtn. introduce Let Us Make a Story, a sprawling exquisite corpse experiment in which one anonymous sentence is added on to the former, without context or, it seems, editorial discretion. This just may be the perfect way to get published, but not credited. Maybe what’s more at stake is the ever manifesting story — let’s see, and see wide.

brandon scott gorrell wrote an article for THE NERVOUS BREAKDOWN.  read it here.