Elsewheres and Otherwhats

• Kameron Hurley: "Power Feminism and the Venom Cock"
  
  
• Alan DeNiro: from The Stations
  
  
• The rest of the nominees at the LitBlog Co-op have been announced, including The Girl in the Glass by Jeffrey Ford. The other nominees include Ticknor by Sheila Heti, My Sister's Continent by Gina Frangello, and my own favorite, Here They Come by Yannick Murphy. As for the discussions, Ticknor week has already begun with a bang.
  
  
• Ed Champion has the goods on Jim Crace's next novel
  
  
• Geoff Ryman on Cambodian writers
  
  
• I missed Blog Against Heteronormativity Day.
  
  
• Ron Silliman on Townes van Zandt: "How do you get to be -- at the least -- one of the three best songwriters of a generation (I make room for Dylan & [Dave] Carter both) and never once have an album that sells more than 7,000 copies?"
  
  
• NYT profile of Juan Goytisolo: "Considered by many to be Spain's greatest living writer, Goytisolo is in some ways an anachronistic figure in today's cultural landscape. His ideas can seem deeply unfashionable. For him, writing is a political act, and it is the West, not the Islamic world, that is waging a crusade. He is a homosexual who finds gay identity politics unappealing and who lived for 40 years with a French woman he considers his only love. 'I don't like ghettos,' he informed me. 'For me, sexuality is something fluid. I am against all we's.' The words most commonly used to describe his writing are 'transgressive,' 'subversive,' 'iconoclastic.'"
  
  
• Deborah Biancotti on otherness: Is it all in the family?
  
  
• David Moles asks, "What makes a good single-author collection?"
  
  
• Waterstone's list of 30 books that deserve to be rediscovered and The Guardian's list of 25 books "authors and celebrities recommend ... that they love but that have failed to gain the public attention they deserve". (via The Literary Saloon)