Slate provides an FAQ for poetry.
Once you’re done there, pick up one of the poetry collections from WaPo’s round-up.
YuppiePunk has an impressively comprehensive array of literary tattoos.
Louise Erdrich reads Lorrie Moore’s “Dance In America” for the New Yorker’s fiction podcast, which, if you have not subscribed to yet, you should.
Speaking of podcasts, GalleyCat (self-) promotes 11 Central Ave, a “new series designed to get well-known fiction writers’ work onto public radio.” This week’s guests include Rick Moody and Ruth Pennebaker.
Congrats to Big Game Books and my favorite bookstore, Capitol Hill Books, for being named Best At What They Do by the CP.
The PEN America Center launched a literary mixed-media project “to explore the intersection of the public and private, the visual and written.”
CM Mayo posts a reminder about readings from novelist Thomas Mallon and poet E. Ethelbert Miller (and friends) for the Bethesda Literary Festival this Friday.
n+ 1’s Keith Gessen reads to people about sad young literary men at Politics & Prose tonight.
DCist has an interview with Barrelhouse editor Aaron Pease (I’ll post a release party re-cap later today. Hopefully.)
Finally, from an article in the Telegraph UK (via BoingBoing) about the enduring demand for stocked bookshelves:
So it comes as no surprise that according to a new report - The Changing Face of British Homes, compiled by insurers Legal & General - more people would like a library or reading room in their home than either a home cinema, gym or music studio. In the survey of 4,000 people, 15 per cent said they would like a library compared to 13 per cent wanting a gym, 9 per cent a music studio and just 8 per cent a home cinema. Although “library” is not usually on the list of requirements for home buyers, a room with plenty of bookshelves is always a plus, says Mario Volpi of agents Jackson-Stops & Staff.
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