The new We Are Champion is out. Oregon Trail poems, fuckage of maps, junk parades, notes on being torn apart by horses, and much more. Girls and boys and carrot discharge. Go read the only online literary magazine that has been documented next to Shaq.

Once again, via Nathan Salsburg.

Five Chapters is going the opposite direction of the current trend and expanding their electronic publishing module into print objects. They’ve just announced their first three titles, collections by Emma Straub and Jess Row, as well as an anthology. An interview with founder Dave Daley is up at Galley Cat, with his insight into sales #s and the logic of the shift.

What’s this? I can’t read German. (This is German, right?)

Does Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood have Kyphosis?

I just got the first library card I’ve had in years.  For most of my adult life I’ve bought rather than borrowed the vast majority of books I read.  New or used, whatever.  Now I’m recovering that thrill I used to experience as a middle-schooler browsing the library’s website, putting stacks of books on hold.  It’s pleasing, no?

Profile of Eugene Marten in the NY Observer.  Damn, nice.  I like that picture.  I want my skull to look like that when I’m 50.

What is the worst writing advice you know?

Another thing I’d do if I lived in NYC.

Over 3 hours of Burroughs’s cut up tapes available for download at Exp Etc.