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Teresa Houle has joined the Folded Word staff and as our Snuggie poem contest winner, models her Snuggie!

What to say when you don’t like a good friend’s bad novel.

A book club for Russian Literature.

A PW survey on the Google book settlement.

An underground library? Very neat idea.

The e-Reader wars… sounds dramatic.

What college composition should teach.

New: Swink, Eat a Peach, decomP, Storyglossia, DIAGRAM, Emprise Review, Knee Jerk,   DOGZPLOT Flash Fiction.

Magazines worth reading on the regular: Wigleaf, Staccato Fiction, Monkeybicycle, and Everyday Genius.

A lengthy interview with Matt Bell, editor of The Collagist.

Folded Word has announced their Pushcart nominees.

The New Yorker has a new managing editor.

The new Lorrie Moore, reviewed.

Writing without writing… Funny post at Powell’s blog.

Hemingway motivational posters.

Sometimes, it is good to unplug.

Sad. No more Reading Rainbow.

The Lincoln Center is looking for teaching artists.

An intern talks about the slush pile.

Behind the scenes of dispatch eleven. The song is great.

The winners of Prick of the Spindle’s Fiction Open have been announced. There’s still time to enter their Poetry Open.

Are you up on the Google Book settlement?

It’s a great time to be a writer.

The new literacy?

Ethel Rohan on writing flash fiction.

This week’s Luna Review.