Why not start the week right by buying yourself some Twitter followers. Or maybe some 5 star Amazon reviews for your book. Not that it matters, if literary culture is all talk and very little in the way of book reading, let alone rereading. Which is totes ridic, right? “Ridic,” by the way, was just added to the OED. So was “vajazzle.”
Bestselling poet Michael Robbins instigated a bar brawl by comparing the man slinging drinks to Billy Joel—a downtown man, and maybe even, for a time, a working class hunk. Meanwhile, Charlie Kaufman told the world that every two hours are two hours you'll never get back, and how to make art even though no one will ever love you; his lecture's just over an hour long, but there's an abridged version in the form of this short film.
