If Ben Greenman doesn’t write a musical about something, it isn’t important: Fragments from Weiner! The Musical.

• At The Atlantic: How the publishing industry has began slumming it in the last few years.

• Slowly working our way through the June issue of Bookslut, and we’ve finished this fantastic interview with Kyle Minor.

• Maureen Johnson argues of the importance of YA literature.

• Björk drops more hints about Biophilla.

• Cord Jefferson at GOOD discusses how rich Americans are way richer than rich foreigners.  Aren’t you glad the USA does something right?  One question: how do our poor people stack up?  Cause we’ve got a whole lot of those.