(My link dumps need a catchier, more cohesive title, but the good ones are taken.)

• Open Letter Fall 2008 Catalogue
  Chad Post, as expected, has put together a great fall roster for his new press—with impeccably designed covers—including a novel from the Lithuanian Ričardas Gavelis. There's hope!


• Literary Perspectives: Estonia
  At Eurozine, they wait for the great Estonian novel and wonder why there is so much Nora Roberts in Estonian libraries. (via Three Percent)


• Little-known risks of reading Bolaño
  Maybe this is why I was never able to finish it; I must have my own internal prison guard censor.


• Carla Bruni as a member of a dead poets' society
  Paul Muldoon looks at the lyrical poetry of Yeats-influenced Carla Bruni (via The Morning News)


• Look Around You: Maths
  Whenever I'm looking for something in the kitchen, The Husband will say to me "Look around you" in that funny newsreader voice and I'll fall on the floor and roll around a bit. And then I'll get up and continue my search for the elusive thermos.