Lit.

Dennis Cooper continues his “Tragically o.o.p. search and rescue mission”, with writer Tony Duvert’s Strange Landscapes.

• Cool Hunting on the photo book “Who Shot Rock n’ Roll“

• In the never ending parade of folks getting book deals, Old Jews Telling Jokes has made it to the front of the line. (Thanks The Awl)

• Chicago Subtext asks you to write fiction in under 100 words or less.

• The Rumpus on the new Soft Skull book Label 228

• Boston Globe talks to Garrett Peck, author of  “The Prohibition Hangover, Alcohol in America, From Demon Rum to Cult Cabernet.’’

• The Granta events for Chicago

• I like anything that has Moby Dick and Iggy Pop in the same paragraph. (Thanks McSweeney’s)

Music

• Andrew Bird and St. Vincent playing together at a house party in Paris: this is where the happy is. (Thanks Pitchfork)
  

• First previews from the Bob Dylan Christmas album (Thanks Flavorwire)
  

• For their Friday top 5, Deckfight picks their top Merge Records albums.  I gotta say, mine is a whole different set, but hey, different strokes for different folks.

• The Faster Times on Leonard Bernstein’s opera, “Mass”

• I agree that iTunes Genius isn’t very good at making mixes

Misc.

• A “Forest Park Journal” on softball.