I am home from The Dollar Store Show Tour, thanks to all who came out and hung out and were rad people, I had a blast. Back to living on a netbox. Upon my return, I’d like to welcome the advent of the newest HTMLGiant contributor Chris Higgs, who I couldn’t be much more excited about having on board. Welcome, Chris.

READ THIS. It’s the nonfiction equivalent of TYSON V. SPINKS.

Art Garfunkel wants you to know how many books he’s read since 1968, the month and year which he read each book, and the number of pages each book was.

A thousand times yes. Bobby Digital drops some knowledge and his “singular philosophical code” on us October 15  with The Tao of Wu.

White Tank Top presents a poem about the new Transformers movie.

The new issue of JMWW is now live. Some neat stuff in there, including an excerpt of something new by Madison Smartt Bell and an extremely frustrating (but hilarious) thing by Jamie Iredell. There might even be a thing in there by J. A. Tyler. See for yourself.

This weekend at Coop’s place, a guest-post from one of DC’s regulars explores the question- Do the Angels in John Milton’s Paradise Lost have gay sex?

A thousand and one cheers to my friend Nick Burd, whose debut novel, The Vast Fields of Ordinary, just got made very nice to by Ned Vizzini in the NYT.

“The Vast Fields of Ordinary” reads like the best kind of first novel — it’s packed with insights that might have been carried around for years, just waiting to come out.

Malcolm Gladwell asks if free is the future. Probably.

Anyone have books by Ken Sparling up for sale/loan/gimme?  If so, please comment and we’ll work out a $ transaction.