Allen Ginsberg helped dispose of a body?  Will this be portrayed in the movie starring James Franco?

Lit.

• A.V. Club reviews Philip Roth’s The Humbling.

• Village Voice go back to 1966 to hang out with Ed Saunders.  Fug, and “Fuck You” publisher.

• The Daily Beast takes a look at the best of British literature.

• Stephen King’s Under the Dome has “the scope and flavor of literary Americana” says the New York Times.

• The guy that put out The Simpsons: An Uncensored, Unauthorized History, gets the Book Notes treatment over at Largehearted Boy.

• Miami New Times talks to Jonathan Lethem.

CNN has one less A-hole on their payroll.

• Lou Dobbs says “peace out” in his own Dobbsy way.
  

• Gawker makes odds on what the next move of Mr. Dobbs will be.

Hilarious.

• Neil Hamburger is on tour.

Music

• Ezra Koenig of Vampire Weekend is thankful for Contra.

• Atlas Sound gives us more free music.

Brooklyn

• Williamsburg bookseller, Spoonbill and Sugartown turned ten years old. Somebody took pictures of the celebration.

• New York buys back Coney Island.  Sorta.

• The geeks shall inherent the earth.  Thank god.