Tyler Stoddard Smith, who wrote a story for us called "Five Alternatives to Throwing Your Penis at the Police," has a new book about whores. He interviews himself at The Nervous Breakdown.
10 Essential Surrealist Books for Everyone at Flavorwire includes William S. Burroughs' The Soft Machine and Jesse Ball's The Way Through Doors.
An overview of literary Asheville (that's where we live) on the Ploughshares blog.
"Our" Robert Birnbaum interviews Jess Walter, author of The Financial Lives of the Poets and now Beautiful Ruins.
Pick a Topic, Any Topic. He Did. Michiko Kakutani reviews Nicholson Baker's new essay collection, The Way the World Works.