Josh Cohen and Justin Taylor discuss book promotion at the Jewish Book Council.

Justin Taylor also talks to Page-Turner about his New Yorker story “After Ellen.”

Jonathan Jones on the late Robert Hughes as “The Greatest Art Critic of Our Time.”

In other big statements: Colin McGuire on Jay-Z as “The Most Important Person in Hip-Hop History” at PopMatters.

“I like to think of sentences as workers.” – Karen Thompson Walker at the WSJ.

You’re going to have to wait till sometime in the summer of 2013 for the Gatsby movie.

The Coffin Factory will be hosting “Who Gives a Sh*t About Literary Magazines” on September 17th at BookCourt.

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