Dennis Cooper’s blog focuses on Crispin Best’s for every year project, which I did not know about at all, much less that it includes contributions from some of our own contributors and/or fellow-travelers, including Jimmy Chen, Nicolle Elizabeth, Paula Bomer, and the great long-lost Ryan Manning. So that’s cool. Then, down in the comments thread, DC directs our attention to a piece by Weaklings-regular and general purveyor of greatness David Ehrenstein’s interview with Anna Karina in LA Weekly, “Sexual Politics: Godard and Me.” How’s that for Friday afternoon?

I’ve been guest editing Adam’s Everyday Genius this month. Today is Sean Kilpatrick’s poem ‘fistfucking rules’ which again reiterates why he is one of the realest mothers in this. Also this month new work from Laura Carter, Mark Leidner, Rav Grewal-Kök, Kimberly King Parsons, Robert Kloss, Donora Hillard, Travis Nichols, Kevin O’Cuinn, Cameron Pierce, Kate Zambreno, and Amy McDaniel, and the month is only halfsies. Hit it, please!

Wish I read French so I could buy these books, even if I already have some of them in English: éditions è®e. Also, been thinking about the act of translating, and how much one might do without a speaking knowledge of the language: how effective could you be just using sound and dictionaries and ideas?

Slate is claiming an exclusive on this list of “The words David Foster Wallace circled in his dictionary.” So if that’s something you’d like to know about, you can know about it now.

29 Mini Essays by Joe Brainard [Thanks to Mike Topp for the heads up]

GIRL SCOUTS

Girl Scouts is more than selling cookies.

Brian Oliu liveblogged AWP. It’s pretty sexy. Here’s how he breaks down the color coding of the ID lanyards:

Green: you & me
Red: the hierarchy
Blue: the Gestapo
Gold: the 1993 Denver Nuggets minus LaPhonso Ellis
Black: kittens
Purple: Colorado-based piano rock group The Fray
Leopard Print: People who have seen the movie ‘Cop and a Half’

Nina Bourne has died at age 93. She was a great book promoter, did it up for Catch 22. Without her, you probably would never have read it. The NYTimes obit is worth a read, if you’re into that sort of thing.

Three new titles out now from FC2: The Fixed Stars by Brian Conn; In the House by Lynn K. Kilpatrick; Passes Through by Rob Stephenson.

“I always remember to thank Jesus for the end of my touring days; if I hadn’t said that the Beatles were ‘bigger than Jesus’ and upset the very Christian Ku Klux Klan, well, Lord, I might still be up there with all the other performing fleas! God bless America. Thank you, Jesus.” -John Lennon

The 2010 Pulitzer Prizes have been announced and independent publishers did quite well for themselves in the Fiction category where Paul Harding won for Tinkers by Bellevue Literary Press. The poetry Pulitzer went to Rae Armantrout for Versed published by Wesleyan University Press.  I have not read either book.