National Book Award winner Patti Smith talks books with Johnathan Lethem (warning: it’s a long talk).

Newsweek rummages through “the mixed-up files of David Foster Wallace” at the University of Texas. After you’ve read the article, be sure not to miss the photos of DFW’s notes and books.

A poet named Homeless and his friend Berlioz, the editor of a literary magazine, sit on a park bench at the Patriarch Ponds in Moscow, drinking apricot soda and discussing a poem Homeless has written about Jesus.  

Today, I found a bunch of weird and disturbing short shorts that I thought were especially awesome. “Paper is scarce, so I hope you won’t be too put off by this stretched and dried flap of thigh flesh.” —  xTx…