Yesterday was a good Bryan Charles day. Catherine Lacey interviewed him at HTMLGIANT, and he also told Largehearted Boy some of the albums he listened to while writing There’s a Road to Everywhere Except Where You Came From.

• Tonight at Housing Works is the big Electric Literature release party for issue #5. It’s free, and probably the only thing worth doing on a Friday night in the city.  [Note: Here are highlights from the party on the EL blog]

• Jezebel asks the question: “Why are yoga memoirs so popular?”

• McSweeney’s introduces version 2.0 of their iPhone app.