Poets ranked by beard weight, via.
Are you absolutely, positively, and wholeheartedly ready to publish your novel? An infographic.
Is Internet literature ‘garbage’?
I think I wouldn’t mind having this condition (maybe): serial novellism. Via.
Such Tweet Sorrow is a five-week drama in real time with 4,000 tweets, based on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, from the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Tomorrow is 2010′s Operation Teen Book Drop, a national initiative to drop over 10,000 new YA books, donated by publishers, into the hands of teens on Native American tribal lands. Readergirlz is inviting everyone to participate in Operation TBD in its drive to spur reading on a national scale, so leave a book in a public place on April 15th. See here for more information. We’ll be participating, because this is rad.
Aaaand in honor of tax day, here is a handy tax form for the “marginally employed” writer: Read more »
In the introduction to the third volume of the literary journal, Electric Literature, the editors lament the decline of traditional reading. Yet they also recognize the fact that we are all now reading more than ever, and at a faster pace: tweets, blogs, texts, and, yes, books. So instead of publishing a death notice for the literary age, the editors present an innovative collection of stories, mediums, and writers meant to challenge the idea of conventional literature. 
