I think I’ll read Suicide Squeeze by Victor Gischler this week. I loved The Pistol Poets. Anthony Neil Smith, of, among other things, Plots with Guns fame, is guest blogging over at Gischler’s site.  Someday, I ‘ll write a longer post on Smith and the fantastic Plots with Guns ( featuring great work by Kyle Minor, Barry Graham, Pinckney Benedict and others in the past years), but check out all the links for now.

June issue of Elimae is now live with many wonderful words, as well as a particularly interesting interview of Unsaid’s David McLendon by Michael Kimball.

American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince is a 1978 documentary directed by Martin Scorsese.  Steven is a fascinating guy and top-notch raconteur.  The whole documentary can be watched on YouTube. A sequel, American Prince, has been made & released exclusively via torrent form, and can be downloaded here.

Evelyn Hampton posted a behind-the-scenes recounting of her process of learning and moving in the inauguration of her new print journal, Dewclaw, including searching for printers, reading subs, costs, and etc. A great set of observations for those interested in how building a magazine goes. Support her, Preorder the issue!

More Evenson (I can’t help myself): an excellent republished article of his from 2005 on Sunn 0))) and Earth in Arthur.

TIGHT: Dzanc Books announces new web based journal THE COLLAGIST, submissions open now

Scott McClanahan Interviews Rudy Wurlitzer Read it here on Aintitcool.

NANO FICTION CONTEST: go here for contest of writing.  you can win american money. you can be a famous writer. you can be strong and healthy. you can survive a tornado. you can kick rick moranis in the balls so hard he falls to the ground gagging.  i like nano.

Learned about this from Matt Bell: Ann Arbor’s Shaman Drum bookstore is closing. In good Matt Bell news, his book How They Were Found will be published by Keyhole Press next Fall. Of course, as all the bookstores will have closed by then, you will have to buy it online.

The Rumpus Long Interview with Dave Eggers, who I think is a charitable, talented guy. It’s sad that there’s such a pervasive Hate Eggers club out there, existing outside of artistic criticism.