Want to read the first five chapters of Sam Lipsyte’s forthcoming book, The Ask? BAM!
- Don DeLillo was on NPR to talk about his new book, Point Omega.
- The guy from Japanther likes some good books.
- LitKicks calls Patti Smith’s Just Kids, “the first great book of the new decade“.
- Melville House has a god on their hands.
- Shakespeare and a little kid.
- “Tech-savvy librarians”
- Califone on tour.
Patel’s move from India to London also makes him out to be a Salman Rushdie protagonist. I hereby declare Patel to be a fictional character named Gibreel, who may or may not be a schizophrenic archeangel.