New bimonthly lit mag Electric Literature is looking pretty cool. If you’re old school, it’s available in print but the e-version is half the cost. Natch, an iPhone app is on the way. Plus, they pay $1,000 per accepted submission. That’s new media that can actually pay its contributors. Progress! Washington Post is on board.

• Another story series in Brooklyn? By Impose? Called Friends With Benefits? With Jeffrey Lewis, Dave Hill, Chris Leo, Pepi Ginsberg, and Alica Jo Rabins? Wait a minute, it’s posted by somebody with my same name. What’s going on here? Is this bizarro Brooklyn?

• Tiny Vipers has a new album coming out on Sub Pop, July 7th. Here is the song “Dreamer” This totally falls under the sad/beautiful category.

• “Sex and the Single Wizard,” an Atlantic article on Harry Potter movies and books and adolescent co-eds at boarding school.

• SoHo bookstore McNally-Jackson bought an Espresso Book Maker, which pumps out made-to-order books. Dane Neller, the CEO of Espresso, considers made-to-order books a complement to Google Books and the Kindle, rather than a solution to or in competition with.

• It’s official, Coming Through the Rye is definitely not being published.

• The Millions calls 2009 “an epic year for books.” Nice.