Come tomorrow 9am I’ll be airbound for Iowa City and Prairie Lights (for a reading to later be broadcast — I think — here), then St. Olaf College, then Minneapolis, then Milwaukee. I’ll report in full when I return; until then, there are a couple of solipsistic links I’ve been meaning to share:

Dan Green wrote a really thoughtful essay on the use of dialogue in Under the Small Lights at his excellent Reading Experience 2.0

My review of Michael Lewis’ ghastly story The Big Short is live at this month’s Open Letters: The Bestseller Issue

The Crisis, an old poem with a new proofread, is included in Michael Schiavo’s new PDF project The Equalizer. Download & forward!