Afternoon Bites: Big Ray Excerpt, New Godspeed, Paris Review in Fort Greene, Aronofsky’s Ark, And More

P.G. Wodehouse was born on this day in 1881.

The Collagist has an excerpt up from Michael Kimball’s Big Ray. (Kimball is also reading tonight as part of the Franklin Park Reading Series.)

Christopher R. Weingarten has some good things to say about Godspeed You! Black Emperor album. The phrase “La Monte Young Battles the Pink Robots” is used.

The Daily Beast‘s list of recommended books for this week includes Jami Attenberg’s The Middlesteins.

A suggested reading order for Chris Ware’s Building Stories.

Electric Literature reports on the Object Lessons reading at Greenlight Bookstore.

Photos of Darren Aronofsky’s ark have surfaced.

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