How much time do you spend on the internet on an average day, and how much of that time is waste v. productive? (I took a sick-day today, thought I’d get a bunch of reading done. Instead, I wasted away in front of my laptop, just like any other day.)

“Art is just a one night stand.” You agree?

Check out the Teleportal Readings videos. They are stunning. The one of Dean Young reading, OMG, I was watching it, loving the amazing book art fly around, and I had that rare feeling of wanting something to last forever and simultaneously wanting it to end so I could find out who mad such a mad masterpiece.

Read all the interviews ever published in The Paris Review. Of particular interest (to me): Bradbury, Salter, Amis, Amis, Ballard, Fowles, Ellroy.  They have a new site design.  We have a new site design.  Coincidence?  I think yes.

Why is it writers so enjoy blogging/tweeting/talking/going on about their rejections?

Marc Maron sat next to Ken Mehlman on a plane. Marc Maron is an American hero.

‎“From the very first chapter, I declared it a tour de force,” Oprah said modestly in Friday’s announcement. [via Shane Jones]

There is a good video up at Coldfront of the Sept. 3 Earshot Reading Series featuring Matt Hart and Nate Pritts and 3 MFA students.

What’s the maddest you ever got at a book, either for how it resolved, or what it said, or what its author did or said?

I like this poem “The Rumored Existence of Other People” by Timothy Donnelly. It showed up to me via Swindle. The poem is about audaciously thinking in very reasonable and terrifying ways.