Kurt Vonnegut was born on this day in 1922.

• John Warner, author of The Funny Man, seeks out a reviewer that really hated his book.

• Electric Literature is a “literary magazine for the YouTube generation.”  Don’t forget EL is co-hosting a reading on Monday with Jim Shepard, Colson Whitehead, Ben Greenman, Matt Sumell and Steve Edwards at Franklin Park on Monday the 14th.

• Sophie Rosenblum on what inspires her to write.

• Alex Ross talks writing about music.

• The end of CDs by 2012?