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[via The Millions] Jonathan Franzen’s long awaited novel’s cover is out. I’m actually pretty excited about this. Hungry to get in on the pastoral rage, we’ve mocked a similar cover, with a little birdie of our own. Sorry, symbolism is so [18]80’s.

You can read with Sam Lipsyte at a Rumpus event. All you have to do is write a piece of prose that uses a sentence from Sam’s new—completely awesome—novel, The Ask.

Publishing Genius is not going to accept submissions for books after the day after tomorrow. You can send them on 4/1, but not on 4/2. I’m going to select a book to be published in 2011 from everything in the pile by 11:59 on Thursday. Book submissions will be open again later.

(However, I recently lost a bet to Michael Kimball, so he gets to pick any book I have to publish — you can always hit him up with bribes.)

The winners of the Calamari Dozen Books giveaway are Tim Jones-Yelvington, Jack Boettcher, and P. Edward Cunningham. Please email your address and pick of 2 books from the Calamari catalog, and you will receive your prize. In the meantime, don’t miss out the Calamari Liquidation before Derek leaves us for Rome. Boo.

Don’t forget to tune in right here tonight at 9 PM Eastern (that’s 6 on the west coast) to see Joshua Marie Wilkinson read live from his forthcoming Selenography, with special guests, q/a, etc. In the meantime, if you haven’t checked out the latest edition of Josh’s Rabbit Light Movies, you’ve got some watching to do.

A most excellent new online journal: LIES/ISLE 03: The Double: NIKOLINA NEDELJKOV MEGHAN LAMB PAUL CUNNINGHAM VERNON FRAZER CHANGMING YUAN MONICA MODY MITCH PATRICK ADAM MOORAD LOUIS BURY G. SAND TRANSLATED BY J. TIAN M. KITCHELL DAVID RYLANCE AND JIMMY CHEN

Tyrant Books gets a writeup. Check out that list.  Thus far, he has scheduled for fall publication How Much of Us There Was by Michael Kimball, which was originally released in 2005 by HarperCollins UK; and for spring 2011, Read the Child This Book or He Will Suffer by Blake Butler. Lincoln Dahl by Sam Michel will be published in either spring or fall 2011.

Most literature is just outburst fetish.

Dang. [Thanks Mike Topp.]

Going to AWP? Like Shane Jones? Ok, good. You qualify for this free thing.