SXSW doesn’t think the Paul Schrader, Bret Easton Ellis, Lindsay Lohan, James Deen film, The Canyons, is good enough to play their festival. We’re shocked to hear the film has “an ugliness and deadness to it,” and that it is based off of  “quality issues.”

Coldfront responds to the Washington Post’s “attack on American poetry.”

A “lost” Carl Sanburg poem has been found.

Adrian Chen at Gawker wants George Saunders to “Write a Goddamn Novel Already.”

Mad Men is coming back on April 7th! Vulture rounds up what you can expect from the show’s sixth season.

Visiting “Geometria de la Conciencia” (“Geometry of the Conscience”) at the Museum of Memory and Human Rights of Santiago, Chile.

NPR on the passing of tennis player Gertrude “Gorgeous Gussie” Moran

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