Can we drop the “Talent borrows, genius steals” line yet? It was never really true, and sounds even more lame every time it gets “borrowed” in repetition.

Nick Antosca on reading Lolita at 12. What was the first book that you felt dirty reading? I’d say mine was either A Confederacy of Dunces around the same age, or maybe The Godfather. Hard question for me because I was watching stuff like Terminator & Skinemax from about 5 on. You?

A little part of me just died.

L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E v. 1-4 are now available online @ Eclipse.

Joyelle McSweeney on Loser Occult. Also, if you ever get really sick of HTML Giant, blow us the fuck up. (Thanks, Johannes. Thanks, Paul.)

Would anyone like to buy me a present, like a sculpture, to put in my home?

Deliverance the movie is equal to Deliverance the book. An odd fortuity indeed. Other movies actually equal to, or–gasp–superior, to the book?

NPR does story on David Markson’s Library

Elizabeth McCracken is tweeting from her office at UT while SWAT teams lock down the campus after this morning’s shooting.

Does anyone have suggestions for good fictional, alternative narratives of Jesus’s life? I’ve read and liked Jim Crace’s Quarantine and Jose Saramago’s The Gospel According to Jesus Christ.