The totally fucking awesome: A drunk guy doing a seal impression. No, watch it. It's impressive.
The baaaaaaad: Book sites are sexing things up, I guess because of that thing that occurs on February 14th, and mostly it's annoying, but I did enjoy this J. Franzen excerpt that Salon has honored as good sex writing -- in part because Franzen has written about how hard it is to write about fucking and, well, because it's fucking hot.
The ugly. Yes, Borders bankruptcy with hundreds of stores closing. (Galley Cat)
And other shit: Johnathan Lethem SLAMS Brooklyn as a place that is, his words, "cancerous" with novelists and disses the high level of "mental traffic" in the B to the R to the double O K. (LA Times) For some reason I am enjoying my diss on my old stomping ground -- a place, like Portland, where people say they are of the "creative class" and are not ironic about it.
Michael Chabon is now chair of the MacDowell Writer's Colony -- Poets and Writers interviews him about it.
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