When I think of Henry Miller, Paris, Brooklyn, and Big Sur come to mind, not Los Angeles.  The Rumpus changes that.

• You are probably going to like this Justin Taylor guy.

• Roberto Bolaño read an awful lot.

• Serbian experimental writer Milorad Pavić has passed away.

• Jonathan Lethem calls Padgett Powell’s The Interrogative Mood “a supreme literary stunt” at The Millions.

• At HTML Giant, Jimmy Chen says of Nabokov’s The Original of Laura, “doesn’t do much except make a publishing event out of nothing”.

• Why did I just listen to this podcast of a guy sounding like Fat Bastard read Trainspotting?

• Of course Robert Frost sent out Christmas cards.

• Jami Attenberg has reason to cheer.

• Jonathan Safran Foer’s neighborhood turns against him.

• Three comics to make you love comics.

Art Basel has begun.

• Flavorpill goes there.

• Brooklyn artists take over Miami, at the Ad Hoc show.

• Art handlers are gonna get laid.

Idiots.

• New York.
  

• Mike Huckabee.

• New Jersey Nets.

Awesome.

• Time-lapse videos of the Alps, set to Beethoven: “ambient video bedtime stories for internet grownups”.

• Making the case for Big Star.