The Rumpus is now offering a monthly delivery of a mystery package to your home, which is like 12 months of Christmas Days repeating: check it.

“He shot her, two hours passed (I wonder about those two hours, like, all the time), then he shot himself. It’s a beautiful story.” –the Tyrant on his favorite literary rich kid :  “Combining the two most homosexual things in straight America, the prison system and closeted homosexuality” –Mark Leidner on I Love You, Phillip Morris! :  And everybody on the new OED site – free till Feb. 5th, use username/password combo trynewoed/trynewoed.

New issue of Electric Literature (kinda NSFW)

Do you think it’s tacky when contributors have consecutive posts on this website?

Okay so David Wynn Miller is the new J.D. Salinger.

At Luna Park, Nicholas Ripatrazone asks: What is the best single issue of any literary magazine? (via Travis Kurowski)

If you’re in NYC, tonight at 7 PM Vol. 1 Brooklyn will be hosting a panel on 90’s punk in Williamsburg, info here.

This is probably Blake’s fault somehow.

All you sentence-heads, Snooki’s on the sentence tip too: “Any juicehead will get some nut shrinkage. And bacne. They fly into a ‘roid rage, it is a ‘road’ ‘roid rage.” I mean, sound is sound: Knopf by way of the club. I’ve read worse; hell, frequently.

What do you expect to pay for a paperback book? What if it’s 700+ pages? Books are really cheap entertainment. Do you think they should cost more?

Gossip until it’s not, but anyway: James Franco to write/adapt & direct As I Lay Dying and Blood Meridian.