Some magick for the holidays?  Jacket Copy talks about led guitar god Jimmy Page’s bookshelf, finds Crowley, talks about Genesis Breyer P-orridge.

Then over at New York Press Maggie Serota talks about Dias Records and mentions Mr./Ms. Throbbing Gristle.

The wheels of Dais Records were set in motion a few years ago in, of all places, Genesis P-Orridge’s basement.

LIT.

• Portland writers picking their favorite books of 2009 at the blog Paper Fort.

• Where The Wild Things Are gingerbread house.

• Tablet talks about poet Stanley Moss’s new collection, Rejoicing: New and Collected Poems.

• Part 1 of The Rumpus International Rivers Interview Series and I’m already hooked. Michael Zelenko’s introduction to his interview with Hungarian writer György Dragomán is worth the read alone.

• Largehearted Boy’s favorite nonfiction of 2009.

• How and why a record label would hook up with a publisher.

• A Gary Lutz story up at Viceland courtesy of New York Tyrant.

• Book Soup Blog on the “Lost Magazine of the Jazz Age”, The Chicagoan

Holiday shite.

• Slate talks about the Nativity scene.

• How do you think Santa pays for all those gifts?

• A Christmas EP from Hollister Hovey.