Iran’s big bad mullahs afraid to let 82 year-old poet Simin Behbahani travel to France. (BBC)

McCrum reminds us that crap is the grease that keeps the gears of the publishing industry turning. (The Guardian)

Seth Grahame-Smith talks about the literary mashup trend he helped foist on us. (GalleyCat)

UT’s Harry Ransom Center scores again—this time with the David Foster Wallace archive. (HRC)

Garrett Kenyon looks back at the top ten crime and mystery novels of last year. (LitKicks)

Jesse Chambers chats it up with poet Billy Collins. (Birmingham Weekly)

JK Evanczuk weighs the relative pros and cons of creation by committee. (Lit Drift)

The Daily Beast editors round up the 10 best revelations in Karl Rove’s new memoir. (The Daily Beast)

Neil Gaiman talks about creepy things. (CBS News)

Molly Flatt frets over the endless distractions that a reader endures in our high-tech world. (Guardian Books Blog)

“On this day in 1994 Charles Bukowski died. Though dismissed by most critics, he was the Grand Old Man of the fringe presses, publishing over fifty books in a career which spanned a half-century and brought near-celebrity status — appearances with Allen Ginsberg, interviews in Rolling Stone, sold-out readings in Europe (to which he would be able to take not the two six-packs but four bottles of good French wine), and a movie of his earlier, Barfly life.” (Today in Literature)

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