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Mash-Up Money
Seth Grahame-Smith is best known for his mash-up novels Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, and its follow up Sense and Sensibility and Seamonsters. Well Lincoln Michel wants the world to…
Hans Kulla-Mader: The Last Book I Loved, The Magicians
I love magic. Be it imagining myself wandering the hills of Narnia or riding a rickety boat on Earthsea’s fog ridden waters—I just want it so bad. I want to…
“You Don’t Have to Call Me Sir”
Josh McCutchen sits down with Harvey Pekar. Learn more about The Pekar Project.
The Surface of Things: The Rumpus Long Interview with Tao Lin
The characters in Tao Lin's work drink smoothies, use g-chat and steal, all with equal gravity, or lack thereof.
Morning Coffee
Today is a good day for map based infographics: charting the 250 greatest movies of all time and the 7 deadly sins. Miniature architecture fashioned from re-purposed kitchen and hardware…
Dead Men Tell No Tales?
Kurt Vonnegut, C.G. Jung, William Styron, and Michael Crichton all have books coming out in the next few months. They’re also all dead. From Vladimir Nabokov to David Foster Wallace,…
John Dies at the End
An expanded on-line novel aimed at the teenage-slacker demo offers one too many penis jokes and pop-culture shout outs.
Health Care Links
Which Way Will Harry Reid Go On Public Option? Senator Olympia Snowe is “the only Republican in Congress” who might vote for health care reform. Washington Times spreads new health…
Changes at TriQuarterly
TriQuarterly, once called “perhaps the preeminent journal for literary fiction” by the New York Times, will no longer exist as a “printed product” next year. Unfortunately this does not mean…
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #3
GLENN BECK ★★★★★ (3 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Glenn Beck.