Open letters to punctuation marks.
Ships that pass is a Tumblr of “fake, imagined, and literary missed connections posted to Craigslist and then re-posted here with real and actual responses to fake, imagined, and literary missed connections.”
Alex Epstein’s 3 micro stories over at The Outlet are worth a read.
“This is Just to Say That I’m Tired of Sharing an Apartment With William Carlos Williams.”
An interesting note on who reads bestsellers from The Rumpus:
“A lot of the people who read a bestselling novel, for example, do not read much other fiction. By contrast, the audience for an obscure novel is largely composed of people who read a lot. That means the least popular books are judged by people who have the highest standards, while the most popular are judged by people who literally do not know any better. An American who read just one book this year was disproportionately likely to have read The Lost Symbol, by Dan Brown. He almost certainly liked it.”
The Nervous Breakdown talks experimental fiction.
Aaaand because this is so SCRUMPTIOUS that I have no choice but to share, here is…Jane Austen’s Fight Club: Read more »
A 1910 privately printed edition book of William Carlos Williams poetry, valued at $25,000…
