Yo editors, you just solicited a writer’s work. Do you read it with the same eye/mind as the slush pile?

Ariana Reines on Acker, Gallo, genital life, and “the absence of a living moral referent.” Via her bewitching blog.

Have the years you’ve spent working on writing affected in any way your belief or lack of belief in god?

A new book, Rut by Scott Phillips, is coming from Concord Free Press. Also: two of their previous titles got picked up by St. Martin’s Press and HarperCollins. Not that this is the case, but I’d be scared if it takes giving away a few thousand copies of your book to get it published by a big house.

This sounds about right. (via @sarahlapolla)

What book made you want to write? What book made you want to quit writing?

Ghost Machine by Ben Mirov is a soft, looping, erased-De Kooning that searches for someone it lost. Really sad. Very good. Read it.

Amelia Gray’s Museum of the Weird reviewed in the New York Times Book Review by J. Robert Lennon. Congratulations, Amelia!

Editing is the only honest way to talk about writing.

Hey, Bradley Sands is declaring war on Betty White to promote his new book of stories My Heart Said No, But the Camera Crew Said Yes!. Maybe the only indie lit sales gimmick I’ve seen involving theoretical senior citizen violence? Check it out.