Wes Anderson’s undergraduate fiction surfaces at Analecta. Afraid to read, as the cuteness might burn my eyes.

Yesterday the 20 nominees for the National Book Award were announced. 13 of them were women and none of them were Jonathan Franzen. All bets are off!

What do you think are the 5 top online magazines, based on content, prestige, and design?

What if I don’t want to read about “the way we live now,” because I spend all my time living the way we live now and am getting kind of sick of it?

What is the best OpenSource word processing program for a Mac? Does your writing utility affect your writing?

Anteaus‘s Neglected Books of the 20th Century is the kind of list making me feel like a lazy reader.

You can pre-order The Pale King.

Here’s an Infinite Jest infographic (via Kottke).

Props to Sam Hey for making the connection between Gatsby’s allegorical “eyes of T.J. Eckleburg” and Geico’s recent googly eyes campaign. If God is money, then look the other way.

Craven self-promotion + craven publisher promotion + actually kind of an interesting way to get one’s work out = Keyhole is now offering to let you pay for minibooks (like mine) and full titles (like the previously mentioned book by Matt Bell) with a tweet.