I have now discovered Livingston Press and like this short story “Real Creamy Ice Cream” from this book called Literature by Catfish Karkowsky. I found out about them from checking out this story “Z and Q” by Krista Madsen at Fiction Circus. (Anyone go to that party last night?)

Jesus Christ, it’s everything we love at once: The Rumpus has an excerpt from Zak Smith’s new book, We Did Porn: Memoir and Drawings, which Tin House Books will publish on 7/1. The excerpt, entitled “Barely Legal Whores Get Gang F**ked,” is a description of Sasha Grey going on the Tyra Banks show, plus some illustrations from the book. Smith, I’m sure I don’t need to tell you, is the author of Pictures Showing What Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow. Happy Saturday!

Dear Leader’s book is in. Two things. 1) Book seems to have sustained water damage in shipping. (Har har.) 2) If his description of seeing the book for the first time is accurate, he was naked when he opened the box. NICE!

Storyboards from Michael Bay’s The Great Gatsby

Wired blog covers Opium’s TIME issue’s Jonothan Keats cover-

“The printing process in question is a simple but, as usual with Keats, pretty clever idea. The cover is printed in a double layer of standard black ink, with an incrementally screened overlay masking the nine words. Exposed over time to ultraviolet light, the words will be appear at different rates, supposedly one per century.”

Go here, and click on the GALLERIES menu and then the PENGUIN BOOKS menu to see book covers by 60s psychedelic illustrator and designer Alan Aldridge.

The other day, I bought Granta (I’m liking many of these stories), A Public Space (I still have far to go with this one, but I’m feeling a bit lukewarm about it today, maybe tomorrow I’ll feel differently), The New York Review of Books (had to skim the Patricia Highsmith article because of too many spoilers about books of hers I plan on reading) and Gigantic (fun and different — a nice palate cleanser between reading the other journals).

Slate’s got Henry Louis Gates Jr. interviewing Spike Lee about the 20 year anniversary of Do The Right Thing.

Looks like another old person hates our freedom. Ray Bradbury describes us as “not real” and “meaningless.”

“Yahoo called me eight weeks ago,” he said, voice rising. “They wanted to put a book of mine on Yahoo! You know what I told them? ‘To hell with you. To hell with you and to hell with the Internet.’”

i don’t understand.