The Believer Logger will be posting monthly installments of Ali Liebegott’s epic train trip across America. Her destination is the Emily Dickinson House in Amherst, MA and along the way she talks with epic women poets.

Check out Installment #1!

Found Item, Muncie, IN.

10 minute documentary by Errol Morris on champion chicken wing eater, El Wingador, at the Times.

What is the most you’ve ever eaten in one sitting?

“Last words from my father. What did he say? (self.AskReddit)“

when was the last time you threw up on yourself & why not now

“My religion is Poetry, not a religion of kindness and love but one of absolute permission. If poetry doesn’t strip me naked in front of my enemies then nothing will.” — CAConrad, in an amazing (duh, it’s CAConrad) and even downright rousing interview with Thom Donovan at The Academy of American Poets, excerpted from A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon, Conrad’s new book of (Soma)tic exercises out April 1st from Wave.

OUR NEW YORK OFFICE (2012) BOOK TRAILER

By Adam Hump and Mitch Trale

A new volume of David Foster Wallace’s uncollected essays, Both Flesh and Not, has been announced for release on 11/27/12 from Little, Brown.

A preview from Tom Bissell’s forthcoming essay collection, Magic Hours, is up today at McSweeney’s.

At the Poetry Foundation, an excellent article about the intersection of writing and poker, concerning the life of Joel Dias-Porter, who lives and writes in casinos.