What’s the best in-bed-with-a-flu/fever-book to read? And why?

@twinnegganswake uses an iPhone spell check to autocorrect the text of Finnegans Wake, i.e. “my blue ribbon Cat, Perceval, just broke the Guinness record for eating the greatest number of hot dogs,four wieners and buns in 12 minutes!” [Via Christian Bok]

Extra congratulations to Christopher Kennedy (my Tyrant 7 neighbor) and Maggie Nelson (author of the incredible Bluets) for winning a $25k NEA grant for poetry. Full list here.

This week at Five Chapters, a previously unpublished story by Barry Hannah: “Lastward, Deputy James”

Damn I need more money, cuz I want everything here: Dashwood Books.

If you desire braincandy/eyefood, check out Kristin Cerda’s excerpt from “{measurable angle [is to (meaning as periphery) is to] tide}” found in the new issue of Out of Nothing.

oh god: Dalkey Archive sales

Barnes & Noble is running a 50% off all Criterion Collection releases; I think it ends on Friday. Be careful. I’m buying at least Antichrist, Last Year at Marienbad, and House. What will you get?

“Off Your Meds: The Manic Joy of Obsessive Repetition, or The Overly-Textured Free-Verse Poem, or The Heart-Beat and the Heart-Attack.”

You have to admit it’s pretty funny that you can get the NEW KEYHOLE journal (#10) for $8, or just $5 if “you think literary journals are boring or that reading in general is boring.”