Lookout! Records founder and P.G. Wodehouse aficionado Larry Livermore wrote a long essay on John K. Samson, wherein he suggests that Samson be named Poet Laureate of Canada. We’re cool with that. Admittedly, we are not Canadian, so that opinion might not count for much.

• Today at the Tournament of Books: The Marriage Plot vs. Green Girl. (And hey, if you’d like to read our review of the latter…)

• Science fiction comics about dystopian volleyball? We will read that, and gladly.

• Julia Jackson interviews Ivyland author Miles Klee.

• Daphne Carr reports from the Ecstatic Music Festival.

• Alison Bechdel is interviewed about her forthcoming graphic novel Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama.