Hey, here's some stuff I read

I think it's important in a literary landscape that seems sometimes obsessed with its own image as ever-dwindling and unnecessary to talk about and celebrate the success stories.  Here's one: Can Harper Perennial Reinvent Publishing

And if you're a fan of David Foster Wallace, Mary Karr, Jeffrey Eugenides, or Jonathan Franzen, or if you are the kind of person for whom lit. gossip is a weird kind of catnip, then you owe it to yourself to read this: Just Kids.

And... that's it.  I'm sure Laura will be by later to be a much better blogger than I.