We love our local indie bookstores just as much as the next person, but pictures of books being sold in Gothic cathedrals in the Netherlands and revamped Rust Belt factories is pretty fantastic.

• Kevin Sampsell always picks the best writers to put out books with on Future Tense.  This excerpt for Chloe Caldwell’s forthcoming title, Legs get led Astray, proves no exception to the rule.

• Israeli author Yoram Kaniuk doesn’t want to be Jewish anymore.

• Hunter Hunt-Hendrix of the black metal Liturgy gets compared to David Foster Wallace over at Pitchfork.  We talked to Hunter a few months back and we learned he liked Don DeLillo.

• Deadspin takes a look at the “asshole genius” of Keith Olbermann with an excerpt from the book Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN.