From Lawrence Weschler's essay, "Lee Friedlander's Visionary Trees: An Addendum to the Last Chapters of Everything that Rises"

From the blogs: The Paris Blog notes exciting new lit mag, Hitotoki: Stories About Cities; The Designing Magazines blog continues to give layout commentary from the stacks; Novelist Peter James blogs about new & free London lit mag for commuters, Notes from Underground; writer Dennis Cooper features excerpts from Berlin-based mag, Bordercrossing Berlin on his blog; Dwight Garner blogs on NYTimes Paper Cuts about Poetry magazine publishing poems with interviews (giving you the art and the commentary at once); Save the Short Story blogs about Cantaraville giving it away for free; and Christopher Hayes’ brief comment on The Nation blog on President Bush’s recent speech.

From the magazines: the Idler republishes Tom Hodgkinson’s Guardian article on Facebook as “We Want Everyone: Facebook and the New American Right” (original Guardian piece here); Sam J. Miller writes in The Quartelry Conversation about “Where the Readers Are“; Zhang Yongle writes in New Left Review about Chinese lit mag “Dushu and the Chinese Intelligentsia“; Lawrence Weschler continues his convergences at McSweeney’s with “Lee Friedlander’s Visionary Trees,” comparing the tree to the eye to the camera obscura; n+1 dispatch from Eli S. Evans on Carlos Fuentes lecture in Los Angeles; and (for all you writers out there) Short Story interviews Atlantic Monthly fiction editor C. Michael Curtis.