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! Impose tells us the best ones from 2009.