— We haven’t been this stoked about a short story in The New Yorker in a long time.

— Aleksandar Hemon’s latest book finally gets reviewed in the paper of record… possibly because of all the attention we’ve been lavishing on him?

— Caleb Crain has been blogging since 2003. His posts are now collected in a “chapbook” that you can download for the bargain price of $5.00. Crain writes persuasively about Top Gun, 19th century bounty hunters, housewife animal sex, the symbiotic relationship between art and criticism, and Applebee’s. Is it weird that we purchased and printed his blog entries in order to read them?

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