a few links

Here's a bit about Paul Auster and his new book.

Here's a bit about George Saunders appearing at Penn State. He's at 826NYC on Saturday, but I don't think I will be (unfortunately). You can go on Academic Search Premier and get the new Harpers story in pdf. I'm not sure that I like it as much as the earlier one Harpers story this year, but it's worth looking at.

In this week's New Yorker, I read the thing on Steve Buscemi, which isn't online.

Here is what Bob Pollard is up to.

Here is a review of the Hold Steady.

I'm doing the NY Times upgrade trial. The Marjane Satrapi things are neat. Sorry if you can't see them.

Some interesting news on Amazon electronic book access, if you like to read news about that kind of thing.