LINKS

* There's a new issue of Bookforum online

* The Guardian reports on digital short stories, utlizing blogs, Google maps, etc

* Hitchens on Pound

* Quarterly Conversation contributor John Lingan reviews Omega Minor in Rain Taxi

* Reading as masturbation (and a review)

* The state of indie publishing in the UK

* This "Beckett" edition of Charile Rose is fairly hilarious and dead-on

* Ken Kesey's Mexican adventure

* As noted elsewhere the new online lit mag Triple Canopy looks good

*  There should be more Arab fiction written originally in English?

* English has no future tense

* 50 good YouTube channels