Aleksandar Hemon talks with with Colum McCann nin the new issue of The Believer.  I love both writers, but I put this at the top so I could post the Tony Millionaire illustration.

• People care that it’s the 134th anniversary of Jack London’s birth.

• If Paul Auster says that Paul Auster is putting out a new novel, it must be true.

• Steve Almond weighs in on Katie Roiphe’s males writers and sex fiction piece.

• Weird writer rituals.

• Dave Eggers talks about San Francisco Panorama in A.V. Club.  Over at his blog, Edward Champion isn’t impressed and discusses what he refers to as the “Journalism Sweatshop Model“:

“Eggers’s remarks in the Onion interview reveal that he isn’t really interested in paying writers.”

• Yummy Fur are back, and Carrie Brownstein is psyched.

• You should buy me the skull from Skull & Bones.