The Coen bros are closer to making True Grit a reality.

• From The Awl: “It’s safe to say that Eggers is currently the most detested man in American haute-literary circles.”

• Remember that time a bunch of people wanted to kill Salman Rushdie?  He’s gonna write a book about it.

• Dennis Cooper on Justin Taylor.

• L Magazine reviews Taylor’s Everything Here is the Best Thing Ever.

• A literary mystery spot at Lit Kicks.

• Where all all the Jews in John Hughes’ films?