Awesome: visualizations of famous movie quotes, via kottke.

What is the worst sentence you ever wrote?

The David Foster Wallace audio project.

Speaking of whom, you’ve probably already heard that UT-Austin recently acquired Wallace’s archive. But it’s worth a mention here regardless, if only because of these doodles David Foster Wallace drew on Cormac McCarthy’s face:

What it means to “pull a Roth.”

An audio interview with Raymond Carver, via 3:AM.

What if this digital publishing revolution we’ve been talking so much about never actually happens?

Aaaand to get you through the hump day, here is a video of a tree branch falling on power lines. It is wild:

Via The Rumpus.