I have a strange aversion to hardcover books so I really enjoyed this article about how paperbacks influenced popular literature. It really shows how publishing does evolve. Perhaps e-books are the new paperbacks.

How come we never have writer sex tape “scandals”?  That could actually be great promotion.  (Cue release of Tao Lin “sex tape.”)  I suppose it isn’t prudent to list writers whose sex tapes I’d like to see.  I’ll do it in my head.

I tried to respond to Mather Schneider’s cool post about me, but the comment system was broken. GIRLS WITH INSURANCE HAS BANNED EVERYONE FROM COMMENTING. I HATE THEM.

What poetry reviews are good for and up against.

How does Luca Dipierro do it? Check out the trailer he made for WORDS, by Andy Devine.

Teabonics.

This guy said in this book: My tastes in reading lately have been way more realistic, because most experimental stuff is hellaciously unfun to read.

Discuss.

“The M.F.A. is a degree in servitude.” Mr. Cohen said. “It is a way to keep writing safe–to keep reading safe from writing. That I would be criticized as being romantic, or impractical, for making that statement just goes to show everything that’s wrong. Writing is a conviction before it is a craft.” — Joshua Cohen, in an interview (and profile on his forthcoming Witz) with the Observer here.

Overheard at AWP: “Are you somebody?”