The fantastic Linda Richards, editor of January Magazine, now has a blog.

Forget that Harvard kid. This week’s plagiarist scandal involves Bret Easton Ellis. But in Bret’s case, he’s actually plagiarized himself! (via Bookninja)

The original unremastered Star Wars trilogy is being released to DVD. About goddam time.

Ron Silliman takes a recent Poetry Foundation study to task at great length: “As a one-time contributor to Poetry, I know that this doesn’t touch my world in any meaningful way. But here’s my question: does it touch the world of Christian Wiman and the current generation of old/new formalists he represents? If it does, how very sad for him. If it doesn’t, one wonders just how much money the Poetry Foundation sunk into this project. One can imagine the New York trade publishers funding this sort of research, because it really has more to do with their use of poetry as coffee table and Christmas gift-ware, what to give to that sensitive but strange niece, that sort of thing. But as a study of the sociology of poetry, what is most remarkable is just how far it misses the mark.”