7 contemporary writers answer the question: is Leo Tolstoy the greatest writer of all time?

The Millions breaks down fiction released by The New Yorker in 2009.

Poeteevee is a new online poetry video series, via HTMLGIANT.

Selections from the Twitter stream of personal ads from the London Review of Books.

Well, it’s official: watching TV will make you die.

James Frey’s six-word memoir: “So would you believe me anyway?” Heh. Via The Book Bench.

The pickup artist poem, via Ron Silliman.

How many have you slept with? Uh, books, I mean.

Aaaand because it’s Wedneday, a video called “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Murder,” in which a hitchhiker (true to statistics, a murderer) meets his driver (also true to statistics, a murderer). Excellent.