Apparently, your blog can now be turned into a PDF book.

Guy mails camera through postal service, guy instructs USPS workers to take pictures. To guy’s surprise, postal workers fulfill their end of a nutty Faustian bargain. There’s even a cameramail schematic to boot if you’d like to try this experiment yourself.

A Private Shack
A Soul Apart
A Ryder Rental
Plimpton’s Enigma
Won’t Sell Out
George is Holding on Line Five
Revue Review
Lit My Fire
Lit Me Darkly
Lit Me Beer Me Seduce Me
Literary Merlot
Tales for George
Tower of Richard Powers
Surrender, Dorothy Parker
Bridgid’s Bitchin’ New Mag
Hughes & Plimpton: Together Again
The Peoria Review
The Paris Review Review
Melt My Tallow
The Disbeliever
The Atlantic’s Remains
Kiss Me, Short Story
Do What You Like
Do Like You Do
Mr. Do’s Literary Castle
Slush Puppy Pile
Form Acceptance Letter
We Put the Ink in Slink
SweecMeeney’s
Quarterly Schmarterly
A Public Bus Shelter
A Public Telephone
A Public Television Pledge Drive
We Pay Writers, They Don’t
Playstory
A Private Cache
A Private Privacy
A Public Privacy
A Public Space

• Scott wants to know: What is the literary mainstream?
• In Seattle, the Tiny Ninja Theatre has concocted a plastic toy version of Hamlet.
• Viggo and Cronenberg sitting in a tree.
• Jim Fergus has had enough of personal details about authors. The Rake (and others) have their own thoughts on this question.
• Tod Goldberg takes Writer’s Digest‘s 101 Best Websites for Writers to task.
• What’s your favorite word not in the dictionary? (via Book Ninja)
• And be careful where you order those Amazon used books. A Los Angeles woman found the words “Death to all Muslims” on the inside cover when she received her shipment. (via Moby Lives)

Former Paris Review editor Brigid Hughes (Plimpton’s short-lived successor) will be launching a new magazine. What’s particularly cool is that she’s enlisted Richard Powers (one of my favorite living novelists) and Yiyun Li as contributing editors. Hughes is also reportedly luring away Paris Review contributors for the new venture, which will be called A Public Space. This reporter is certainly curious to see how this will all turn out.