Bites: My Chemical Goethemance, Talking About Eggers One Last Time in ’09, The Ramone Poet, Cassettes, and More

New York Review of Books cartoonist David Levine has passed away.

• Virginia Woolf: difficult to read.

• Goethe, Byron, and My Chemical Romance?

• Maybe for the last time in 2009, we have some Dave Eggers news via this interview.

• Dee Dee Ramone: the Yogi Berra of punk rock poetry?

• A little story about Kurt Vonnegut and a failed Saab dealership. (Thanks Maud Newton)

• Fictionaut talks to author Curtis Smith.

• 2009 was a good year for angry writers.

• Cassettes never went away!  Impose tells us the best ones from 2009.