Be sure to swing by the Litblog Co-Op this week, where the Summer 2006 finalist, Michael Martone’s Michael Martone, is being discussed or, at the very least, referenced through all manner of strange Contributor’s Notes.

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Total body count from traps: six.

I haven’t heard a peep or a scurry the past few days. The exterminator believes they’re gone, but we laid down more traps just to be sure.

But I’m relieved to report that Chez Ed is salubrious and once again open for business.

The exterminator, however, was a far too giddy bastard about all this. I remained brave as he threw mice-laden traps within inches of my feet. Perhaps he was putting the test in testoserone, but I lived to tell the tale.

So does Dustin Long’s Icelander live up with the rest of the McSweeney’s fiction books that have been overseen by Eli Horowitz (specifically, The People of Paper and Here They Come). Laura Miller seems to think so. She’s called the book an “endearingly wacky puzzle novel,” a phrase that, if you’ve read Miller’s reviews, doesn’t come from her lips all that often. The verdict’s in on a look see until more reviews trickle in, but this does sound promising.

Reuters: “Nobel prize-winning German author Guenter Grass has admitted for the first time that he served in the Waffen-SS, Adolf Hitler’s elite Nazi troops.” (via The Millions)