Publishers Weekly gives us a lineup of the most literary cemeteries in the world.  [The picture above is Herman Melville’s grave at Woodlawn cemetery in The Bronx via us.]

• “John Fante was also sort of a hack and was always pissed off at the studios and always working on some deadline, on some piece of dreck for some producer.” Dan Fante to Royal Young at Interview, talking about his new book Fante: A Family’s Legacy of Writing, Drinking and Surviving. 

• Searching for David Foster Wallace’s self-help books.

• Porchista Khakpour on a decade spent trying to write about 9/11.

• The Atlantic discusses Thelma & Louise, “the last great film about women.”