Beautiful new piece by Catherine Lacey, “Remove Yourself,” today at 52 Stories.

“Yet underneath its surface challenges, THERE IS NO YEAR turns out to be deeply honest and emotional, a family drama that by its end brings on feelings as complex and satisfying as those summoned by Faulkner’s simple sentence “They endured.”—Joseph Salvatore, New York Times Sunday Book Review

Today at Vice, The Tyrant and I have a conversation about masturbating and language. What books get you to touch yourself?

Seventy-one years ago today, John Cage debuted his prepared piano on stage at Seattle’s Repertory Playhouse. In honor, edit an old story of yours by adding a few new nouns.

an ounce of cruelty is worth a pound of truth

Happy birthday to our very own Adam Robinson, publisher of Publishing Genius, bearded loon and sunny gentleman, and also fifth among Iowa freshman in all-purpose yards (952).

THIS THURSDAY, at 9 PM Eastern, we’ll be hosting the 12th edition of our Live Giants online reading series, featuring live offerings by the inimitable Matthew Rohrer, Noelle Kocot, & Anthony McCann, each in support of their new books from Wave, as always right here on the site. Don’t miss it! RSVP here.

A lovely article/interview with PJ Harvey in which Harvey reveals nothing and everything about life-in-writing-and-song to Dorian Lynskey. Also, Harvey recommends some of her favorite poets.

Sara McGrath is the new associate editor of Titular Journal. We killed Krammer Abrahams because we found out he was not a human being. We used his skin to build a physical masthead. It’s at Jimmy’s condo. Just kidding, Krammer is alive and well and has a book coming out (came out? I dunno). Anyway, send Sara and me some shit. Make it up. Have fun with it. Base it on a movie, TV show, or novel and name it after that movie, TV show, or novel. That seems fun, right? It is. Okay cool.

The LA Review of Books is now live and updating online. THE DEATH OF THE BOOK: “It is possible to regard much of Western avant garde poetry and prose as an extended argument with the bound pages from which literature would prefer to break free.” BUSTER KEATON AND THE WORLD OF OBJECTS: “Keaton takes the bat and systematically smashes every pane in every bookcase, puts the bat aside, sits down, says nothing.”