“[A] ruthless satire of overentitled 21st-century youth, in which even the punctuation drips with irony – especially the three exclamation marks of the title…” Via Big Other, The Globe and Mail interviews Sara Levine. Who, it should be mentioned, will be at WORD on Wednesday night. (And hey:  Kevin Thomas has a review of the novel in comics form over at The Rumpus as well.)

• We have to admit that the idea of “a long reading of a script about Mark Twain with Parker Posey, Brady Corbet, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt” sounds pretty incredible to us.

• Laird Hunt on noir, in the Wall Street Journal.

• Coming in February: Anatomy Courses, a new book by Blake Butler and Sean Kilpatrick.

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