Ben Marcus’s “Advice from Pooh Corner” can now be read on his site.

• Big Other features another batch of smart folks, including Penina Roth and Dawn Raffel, talking about their favorite things from 2011.

• If you’re curious about Misha Glouberman and Sheila Heti’s The Chairs Are Where The People Go, the LA Review of Books has a review of and a podcast about the book in question.

• The Outlet reports from the Portland, Oregon release party for Martha Grover’s One More for the People.

• Helen DeWitt’s excellent first novel The Last Samurai is apparently out of print.

• At Beatrice, Ron Hogan writes about translator Marian Schwartz.

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