I’ve had Ken Kalfus’s A Disorder Peculiar to the Country at the top of my TBR pile for a week (alas, I’m chained to reading other tomes right now), but this highly entertaining interview threatens to wreak havoc with my reading regimen.

This morning, the New York Sun reports that Dalkey’s planned move to Rochester has dissolved. The story was also picked up by Publishers Weekly, who reports that Chad Post is uncertain whether it will seek an arrangement with another institution. The arrangement Dalkey has with Illinois State is up on December 31, which gives Dalkey a month and a half to find new digs (or possibly extend the situation with Illinois State). I’ve sent an email to Chad Post with a list of questions to see if I can get any specifics on what went down.

[UPDATE: Jennifer Howard sends along this article, which has some quotes from Chad and John O’Brien.]

It’s fantastic that former Sun-Times book editor Henry Kisor has taken up blogging. But in a transparent effort to attract my attention, to upstage the careful online presence that I’ve built up over the years, he’s named his blog “The Reluctant Blogger.”

You can fire a gun all you want, Harry, but I am O.G. I was THE FIRST litblogger named Reluctant.

Plus, I can fire a pistol standing up!

Alan Moore’s famous creation made an appearance in Washington. Hilarious results ensued. “We see things like this. We don’t know they’re not weapons.” (via MeFi)