Kate Durbin’s first book The Ravenous Audience is on sale for only $6.38!!!

In honor of William H. Gass’s 80th birthday on 30 July, Big Other ran a whole mess of “50 literary pillars” lists (an idea borrowed from Gass).

Participants included Matt Bell, Samuel R. Delaney, Rikki Ducornet, Johannes Göransson, Christopher Higgs, Christine Schutt, and many others.

I also assembled a compiled list.

Lots of reading suggestions, in other words.

What are the best fucking Tumblr feeds to follow?

Lincoln Michel‘s class asked him what the current trending literary styles are. He said G-Chat Realism and Magical Tweeism.

Go!

What is the exception to “the book was better than the movie”?

Do you guys save your “papers”?  To what extent do you save your papers?

What size shoe do you think Walter Benjamin wore?

I have small feet. I usually buy in kids, cheaper and cuter, though a little heavy on the glitter for my taste. It’s a problem.

Does someone you know “get a boner” when they write?

If so, which “boner”?

And if so does that someone feel they need a “meat log” to write?

Does someone you know “use substances” when they write?

If so, which “substances”?

And if so does that someone feel they need “substances” to write?

This isn’t a clever gimmick. It’s a terrible, unforgivable sin.