Poets ranked by beard weight, via.

Are you absolutely, positively, and wholeheartedly ready to publish your novel? An infographic.

Is Internet literature ‘garbage’?

Tweets of the well-read.

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.

Is My Thesis Hot or Not?

Aaaand in honor of tax day, here is a handy tax form for the “marginally employed” writer: Read more »

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: Read more »