“I FEEL THAT THE BEAUTY OF FORMS OBSCURES THE NULLITY THEY CHOREOGRAPH OR ENCHANT.  I FEEL THAT THE NULLITY IS NOT THE SPACE AGAINST WHICH THE BEAUTY OF FORMS IS A FACT BUT THAT THE BEAUTY OF FORMS IS THE NULLITY ITSELF, TRANSMOGRIFIED, AND I FEAR THIS.”

Ariana Reines has a blog.

Katherine Dunn hasn’t published a novel in the 21 years since Geek Love.  But she’s been working on one, and an excerpt is coming out in the Paris Review soon, thanks to an entreaty from editor Caitlin Roper.  Also, remember that time last winter when she showed a mugger what’s up?

1. On Kickstarter, Astrophil Press is raising money to rerelase Brian Evenson’s Contagion. The video contains an interview he did on TV in France. I like how she says ‘pee-doh-file’.
2. At Transductions, David Rylance considers David Lipsky’s David Foster Wallace book. Triple D.

How important is the presence of specific clothing/architecture to your writing?  Do you write about them well? Do you ignore them to some extent? Are you scared of them, like I am?

How do you think the means of publication for poetry and poetry itself are related?

If you have the freedom to publish online or through a small press and reach a good number of people, you will likely feel more comfortable writing exactly what you want.

-Amy King, at the Huffington Post.

n. delight in pronouncing the names of your shampoo’s chemical ingredients—cocamidopropyl betaine, polyquaternium-10, methylchloroisothiazolinone—whose crisp syllables snap together like Legos, which momentarily reassures you that life is a cumulative stack of discrete accomplishments, not a shapeless continuum of extracts from abstracted tragedies like family, entropy, or papaya. –The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Tao Lin is answering every question posted.

Is it legit/ethical to jump on someone’s wireless access?

If only you’d written a better poem, the oil spill would have never happened.

1. At The Rumpus, Stephen Elliott questions the authtor copy policies of publishers, rightly insisting that the author is his own best promotion machine and should therefore have books to back it up.
2. At Abe Books, 25 iconic book covers. Any they missed? [via Moby Lives]
3. At DC’s, 80 chandeliers.
4. At n+1, Paul Maliszewski remembers David Markson.