News tidlets

Ian Brown wins Charles Taylor Prize
McSweeney’s namesake dies
Crumb’s no. 1 inagaddadavida, honey
Neil Gaiman to pen Dr. Who episode
Hey! You got your romance in my vampires! You got your vampires in my romance!… Mmmm!
Speaking of vampires: the 3rd annual Black Quill Awards for Entertaining Disaffected Goth Youth have been handed out (from SFSignal)
Hear Patti Smith read from her new memoir Just Kids (West 4th Street and Washington Square doesn’t sound like it’s changed at all)

Crumb’s Book of Genesis is rocking in the free world

"You call this a script? Give me a couple of $5000.00-a-week writers and I'll write it myself. "

Joe Pasternak

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