Deborah Treisman, who heads the New Yorkers fiction department, talks about editing David Foster Wallace, and the methods in which they communicated at the GQ blog.

For a long time, he communicated exclusively by answering machine. I would leave him a message at some point during the day—he didn’t answer the phone—and then, late at night, when I was no longer at my desk, he would leave a very long response on my voicemail. I didn’t take this personally

Lit.

• Over at the Chicago Sun Times, Roger Ebert remembers Charles Bukowski.

• Stephen King is playing Santa this year for 150 American soldiers can go home for the holidays.

• Pretty much everything Dennis Cooper likes in 2009, we agree with.

• Boston starting to warm up to Edgar Allen Poe.

• Eric Forbes on J.G. Farrell

• Tintin fever begins now?

• Real life Jungle Book friends in Georgia.

• Zines have their own wiki!

• A lit scene in Baltimore.