A new major book review section is about to open, at… the Wall Street Journal?

Jeff T. Johnson’s got an essay on “The New Hybridity” at Fanzine.

Castro thinks Ahmadinejad should stop slandering the Jews. You can add that to the list of things Castro and I agree about.

Mathias Svalina has been writing Book Proposals for Broadway Books. From “My Year on a Moving Sidewalk”:

This book will be popular among readers who enjoyed such books at Mary Roach’s Stiff, Mary Roach’s Packing for Mars & the City of Portland, Oregon’s downloadable pdf “SIDEWALK REPAIR MANUAL: How to Repair and Maintain a Sidewalk.”

Bianca Stone has a new chapbook coming out. Someone Else’s Wedding Vows is now available for pre-order from Argos Books.

Tender, imaginative, wry and wise, the poems in Stone’s first collection take the reader from the bottom of the ocean to the orbit of the moon.  In between, the geography of the heart is mapped lyrically and unexpectedly.

Not a lot to complain about in that description, is there?

At the Faster Times, Kyle Minor absolutely loses his shit over Amelia Gray’s Museum of the Weird. I stopped pretending I could follow what he was talking about somewhere toward the middle, but the upshot seems to be that he likes her book very, very much.

And finally, as if you needed me to tell you, the launch event for Richard Yates is at BookCourt tonight. It begins in about ten hours, which means that I am going to leave my house in a few minutes to head down there and claim a seat.