New York Review of Books cartoonist David Levine has passed away. Virginia Woolf: difficult to read. Goethe, Byron, and My Chemical Romance? Maybe for the last time in 2009, we have some Dave Eggers news via this interview. Dee Dee Ramone: the Yogi Berra of punk rock poetry? A little story about Kurt Vonnegut and a failed Saab dealership. (Thanks Maud Newton) Fictionaut talks to author Curtis Smith. 2009 was a good year for angry writers. Cassettes never went away!  […]