RIP David Foster Wallace. (Also in the LA Times).
The bloggers at Amazon’s Omnivoracious share some DFW memories. Buzzfeed gathers a bunch of a links including videos and his Kenyon University speech.
Poe’s “The Raven,” translated into 50s hipster. This is the awesome. Really.
I love when my love of music collides with my love of books. Like, for instance, when I find out Bob Mould is writing an autobiography.
The Pi-Press lists 37 new and upcoming releases by Minnesota authors.
I own fourteen books by John Irving, thirteen by Jeanette Winterson, and eight by Philip Roth. However I can say without any doubt that I have bought more books by Maurice Sendak than any other author on the planet. Which might be why I enjoyed the NY Times profile of him so much.
The Strib reviews one of my most anticipated books of the fall, Elizabeth McCracken’s An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination.
The Minnesota Historical Society is listing the 150 Best Minnesota books {via}
The NY Times Paper Cuts blog has some Stray Questions for Kaui Hart Hemmings, author of the fan-fucking-tastic The Descendants.