Graeme McMillan says a number of smart things about the overlap of music & comics, touching on everything from Phonogram to the Neil Gaiman-written/Alice Cooper-featuring The Last Temptation. McMillan’s new blog The World That’s Coming is also highly recommended for fans of smart music writing.

• Hey, it’s Robert Christgau’s favorite albums of 2011.

• William Gibson is interviewed in The Paris Review.

• Magdalena Edwards on Clarice Lispector’s The Hour of the Star.

• Victor LaValle contributes to Full Stop’s “The Situation in American Writing” series.

• And if that situation is not to your liking, there’s always Edward Champion’s report on The Situation in American Waffles.

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