48 Hour Magazine is “a raucous experiment in using new tools to erase media’s old limits. As the name suggests, we’re going to write, photograph, illustrate, design, edit, and ship a magazine in two days.”

[out of nothing] #3 is quite the wild beaut. featuring work by Achraf El-Bahi Luis Panini Douglas Kearney Mathew Timmons Alfred Brown Matias Viegener Jen Hofer Morgan Craft Jenny Yurshansky Nikki Allen Jesse Seldess Kevin Varrone Tim Kahl Kyoung Kim Vadim Bystritski and emcee: Teresa Carmody

Lincoln Michel, frequent HTMLGIANT commenter and co-editor of Gigantic, has offered a ranking of literary magazines. Magazines I would have considered First Tier, for example, were in the Second Tier–The Missouri Review comes to mind, not in terms of say, my personal preference but in terms of prestige. Rankings are, ultimately, an impossible thing but I thought the rankings were really interesting.

Charles Lavoie offers an alternate, if not more compelling, line for The New Yorker‘s caption contest illustrations, which may point to a redundancy of logic in the latter’s humor — that of minor transgressions in inopportune moments.

Here’s a special thing, via Christian Bök’s twitter feed.

I really want to call someone “the Santana of the literary world,” but I don’t know whom.

‘Oyster Vision’ from MORPHOLOGIC on Vimeo.

I really enjoy The Awl, and today there’s an interesting article about why online commenters seem to revel in meanness.

What’s an outsider? UPDATE: But, seriously—are you an “outsider”? What makes you one?

The NOON reading is tonight at 7Pm. Readers include: Kim Chinquee, Sara Jaffe, Tao Lin, Lincoln Michel (yay Lincoln!), Dylan Nice, Diane Williams, Anya Yurchyshyn. It’s at the Center for Fiction (17 E. 47th Street), and if you are going, please RSVP to 212.755.6710. This is the reading-equivalent of Lollapalooza or at least Pitchfork Fest. Looks like there will be free wine and chairs.

Also, if you are in Florida, next Friday Justin Taylor, Amy McDaniel, Alexis Orgera and I are reading here in Sarasota. On Saturday, we’re doing a panel on “reading style.” There’s a Facebook event.