The Rumpus has a chat with writer/artist, Chelsea Martin.  Everything Was Fine Until Whatever is her book on Future Tense Publishing, and thanks to the interview, I’ve become obsessed with the above drawing.

• “Frankly we would have been offended if he wasn’t shortlisted.” Nick Cave’s publisher on his nomination for the best of bad sex writing.

• Colum McCann is the National Book Award winner. Yippie!

• Gore Vidal and Dave Eggers also won.

• Greil Marcus as editor of the The Paris Review?  That would be cool.

• Christians like that Jewish guy who didn’t write that book about “chasing homely girls”.  (Thanks HTML Giant)

• Lemony Snicket puts his books on the internet.

Let’s get political.

• Atheists in the UK are working harder than atheists in the US.

• Two sides of the Sarah Palin coin at The Daily Beast.

• In Texas, if the gays can’t get married, nobody can be married.

Food and booze.

• The Young and Hungry talk to some guys who made Italian-style Bellisima Enchiladas.  I will repeat, they made Italian-style Bellisima Enchiladas.

• Drink more to make your heart happy.