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Five, and quickly: interesting & only 9/11 piece I read this year, markedly good from Kier, again why I won’t read The Art of Fielding, the new vice.com’s Guide to Congo pt 1., and Schrödinger’s goddamn cat.

The site was slow, so I messed with some stuff and made it faster.

Also, I felt like giving Htmlgiant an animated glitter star background, so I gave Htmlgiant an animated glitter star background.

Enjoy this special enhancement!

UPDATE: Removed the animation. :(

Michel Houellebecq has gone missing.

Dennis Cooper is interviewed in the new issue of the Paris Review (“I’m as interested by what sex can’t give you as by what it can.”)(as is Nicholson Baker)(as is a story by the rad Kerry Howley).

A follow-up to my last snippet post: What’s the “best” novel or story or poem or comic or song “about” September 11th? (Besides Isabel Allende’s The House of the Spirits).

So the next few days are basically going to consist of trying to avoid any and all 9/11 footage?

What is the date of the recording of the last piece of music or album you felt genuinely emotionally affected by?

The 2011 Rona Jaffe winners were recently announced. They include Melanie Drane, Apricot Irving, Fowzia Karimi, Namwali Serpell, and JoAnn Wypijewski and one of my favorite newer writers, Merritt Tierce.

And this is what we call fishing for outrage. Anyways, off to go read American Psycho again.