Today is Lee “Scratch” Perry’s birthday.

• Jacob Silverman reviewed Laszlo Krasznahorkai’s Satantango for The New York Times Book Review, and then provided a handy roundup of Krasznahorkai around the web.

• Edith Zimmerman talks to Kate Zambreno over at The Hairpin.

• Connecting a Blue Velvet frame to a Bolaño story.

• Ted Gioia’s “Year of Magical Reading” brings him to Like Water For Chocolate.

• Miles Klee give Electric Literature a mixtape.

• Here’s a Flickr page full of post-punk flyers.

• Arcade Fire hung around Austin after everybody else left.

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