STILL YET MORE SHORT CUTS, SOME OLD, SOME NEW (4/20 lit edition)

This guy smoked dope with Thomas Pynchon in the 60s.

Page Harold Bloom, Kurt Cobain died because he misread a poem.

Victor Bockris remembers Terry Southern, screenwriter of Easy Rider, Barbarella and Dr. Strangelove, Sgt. Pepper cover boy, and author of a great collection of stories, Red Dirt Marijuana and other Tastes.

A while back, George Saunders issued a manifesto for an organization that I can get behind wholeheartedly. I recently discovered this piece in a wacky promotional package for his upcoming short story collection In Persuation Nation.

(these links were mostly purloined from fine litblogs like the Elegant Variation , Rake's Progress and Maud Newton)