Today’s quick lit [& alt.cult] links from around the web:
“I wanted it to be a gag-free book, more like psychological horror really. But then I couldn’t help myself and jokes crept in.” The Skinny interview Dan Rhodes
& Five Chapters are excerpting Sam Lipsyte’s The Ask
& Paul A. Toth on Airplane Novel
& Maud Newton on being intimidated by a favourite writer’s work
& Andrew Gallix on René Girard & Mimetic desire
& Franz Kafka, this month’s featured artist on A Piece of Monologue
& Rhys Tranter on Heidegger & the Nazism debate
& Irish Publishing News on publishing & self-publishing & where things stand in 2010
& book lovers never go to bed alone, a tumblr of bookshelves [via VOl. 1 Brooklyn]
[Image: Josef Schulz's Sign Out, a "commentary on the American dream, unfulfilled"]
First posted: Tuesday, February 9th, 2010.
