The big news that everybody will be talking about this week at the BEA (we think?): Laurence Kirshbaum, former CEO of the Time-Warner Book Group and more recently a literary agent, “has accepted the role of Publisher for Amazon’s New York publishing office, effective July 5th.”
Crushable gives us a guide to literary mashups we (I think they mean the staff at Crushable) wish we could write. Our personal favorite is probably “Jane Eyre, Ghost Hunter.”
Pictures of Thurston Moore and Eileen Myles at Music Hall of Williamsburg on Brooklyn Vegan.
Dennis Cooper hearts Mike Young, Jamie Iredell, and Scott McClanahan. You should too.