I like both of Sloane Crosley’s (above) books, but honestly the quote "Cats are the Hanukkah of the animal world," is maybe the best thing she’s ever said.
- Nicole Krauss and Patti Smith are finialists for the National Book Award, but no Franzen?
- The Rumpus are putting out a book full of some ladies that we love.
- "Howard Jacobson’s Booker prize-winner typify the Jewish tradition."
- At the Paris Review Daily, Art Spiegelman, talks about the influence of pioneering graphic novelist Lynd Ward in his introduction to Ward’s Six Novels in Woodcuts.