Who writes America best?

The new La Petite Zine is live & alive with fireworks from Matthea Harvey, Molly Brodak, Cathy Linh Che, Anne Cecelia Holmes, Taryn Schwilling, Colleen McCarthy, Jean Valentine, Lyall F. Harris, Montana Ray, Robyn Art, Jane Lewty, Carol Muske-Dukes, Stacey Tran, Stephanie Ford, Leanna Petronella, & Joanna Novak. Boom.

I love Jonathan Baumbach. Who doesn’t? Dzanc is rEprinting all his books.

Is it just me or is John Hawkes kind of actually overrated?

“Lin mumbled that he and Johnson aren’t really speaking to each other…Lin said that it was because Johnson “didn’t approve of the relationship” in Lin’s latest novel.” Should a publisher like the books they publish? Shouldn’t they?

Amy Hempel interviewed by Tim Small, the guy behind the gorgeous Milan Review.

What author writes the best about drinking and eating? I mean so good you’re reading and your damn mouth waters.

So, wow, Yale just announced $150,ooo literary prizes that’ll be awarded starting in about a year and a half.  Endowed by the late writer Donald Windham, who “specifically requested that writers with no academic affiliation be considered.”  Here’s hoping prizes go to some surprising (in a good way) recipients.

J. Nicholas Geist at Killscreen gives us a really gorgeous example of a text coming alive electronically.

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