For more of these delightful images, check Casey’s post referenced below, this image from here

1. gmtPlus9 (-15) plus has a trailer for to a Toei pinky violence Japanese exploitation film, and reports on work by Hans Bellmer life companion Unica Zürn.
2. Dennis Cooper has a William Gaddis special, I picked this profile of his novel The Recognitions of which Dennis says: “Though neglected for many years, this monumental, eclectic, and intertextually dense masterpiece is now regarded as one of the foundation stones upon which American literary postmodernism is built. ” Also note this beautiful cover image — which has the feel of a Northern Renaissance piece — anyone by whom the painting is?
3. S. Casey reports on one of his books called Diableries, see image here, here and here. I am very much intrigued by S. Casey, and his C. V. adds to my curiosity.
4. Both the music blogosphere and the literary blogosphere have articles about ‘the conventional press’ ridiculing bloggers.
   1. Woebot reports on “Paul Morley [who] is almost guaranteed to be having a pop at music bloggers. … The latest piece is almost entirely about online music criticism. It’s quite hilarious really.”
   2. Conversational Reading quotes Sam Tanenhaus, who says “I find [litblogs] write about us, but I don’t find they write about authors and have that many interesting things to say about literature. Maybe I’m missing them?”