Emerging Writers Network put together an alternate list of 20.

“There is obviously much to praise about the work that is published by New York houses, and in The New Yorker, as well as the authors on the New Yorker list.  Nonetheless, we feel it is the independent presses who best represent the heart and soul of understanding what is going on in literary fiction today, and the writers included here have all struck a chord with that community. Each of these writers deserves to have his or her work championed and read by anyone who values great writing.”

“When I originally checked “Less Than Zero” out of the library, years ago, I found a pubic hair lodged between two pages, and this seemed significant.”

How do you read so much?

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One week from today, Wednesday, June 30th, Zachary Schomburg will read for the 6th installment of the Live Giants reading series, via live feed here at 9 PM EASTERN. More info and RSVP here.

Hereby reappropriating this website as a work of art. Not for sale, but safe for work.

It’s a wonder what museum labels can do. Please call me “Do Shan’t,” not Duchamp. Or just please call me, which is what my therapist said today — the first mark of a codependent relationship. So, so needy.

Elissa Bassist is just looking to get paid–a highly noble goal, and one you can help her meet by donating $2 when you read this story she wrote. You can also read it for free if you want to, by skipping straight to here. Can anyone explain to me how this doesn’t make Elissa Bassist the new Radiohead?

The very cool Gabe Durham is taking over editorial duty of the very cool Keyhole Magazine.

Manute Bol—RIP, big man—may have been the originator of the phrase “My bad.”

Scorsese on the weird dream passages in the underrated Eyes Wide Shut, gorgeous build of Barry Lydon, mania and open of The Shining & severed heads of Full Metal Jacket, and on the man himself.