Live Giants with Michael Kimball
You missed the 4th Live Giants reading with Michael Kimball, and Andy Devine.
Through tomorrow you can get Devine’s Words for $8 from PG here.
Blake Butler—
SPD is offering 40% off on all poetry books from the 20th century through the end of April, they have included a list of choice choices, anything else hot come to mind to pick up?
Cullman Liquidation Ctr.
Errol Morris‘s pick for greatest commerical of all time:
Op Ed on Eds
I get confused by all the kinds of editors there are. It seems that journals that take themselves really seriously tend to have a bunch of editors. I don’t know that much about publishing, so maybe there’s a guideline, but to me it just seems like a bunch of people calling one another fancy names. What follows is my guess about what these types of editors do.
Editor – this guy (sorry, I imagine a dude) doesn’t read submissions; he might not even read the journal when it comes out. He just calls his friends on the phone to solicit their writing. He likes to say “I split my time between New York and [some other city].” This guy is famous and he rocks.
Executive Editor – this guy is old, and went to Princeton in the 50s. He doesn’t have an email account; doesn’t even know what twitter is. He just goes to the bank and transfers money and writes checks. He lives by a lake, but cannot swim.
Woman William Vollmann
Vice publishes an excerpt of Vollmann’s latest nonfiction book, Kissing the Mask: Beauty, Understatement, and Femininity in Japanese Noh Theater. Damn.
Thanks to Gian, who today also on Vice published a story by Harriette Simpson Arnow.
HELP US PENETRATE THE ORIGAMI FORTRESS
It has come to our attention that Karl “King” Wenclas (disambiguation here) has written a post (essay?) about HTMLGiant on something he (charmingly?) refers to as his “premium” blog. What this means is that we can’t read it, but he has announced (let slip?) that it is called “Paper Tiger.” Does anyone out there have access to this thing (?) and if so please pass it along to us because we are just dying to read it (possibly out loud to each other while we eat caviar and rub each others’ feet (with caviar)). Also, though I’m writing in advance of having read the doubtless thorough (and sweeping?) insights in the “King”‘s presumably awesome^3 post, and therefore in a state of complete ignorance, I would like to suggest that the “King”‘s thesis is incorrect. HTMLGiant is not a paper tiger. We are a lego dinosaur.
Why More People Don’t Read, or Why They Might Soon
Crotches covered in what closely resembles a field of white mites? I’m sensing a sudden boom of interest in reading Pynchon.
[via Gawker]