Tomorrow, I’ll be on Talk of the Nation with Don George, editor of the Lonely Planet humor anthology By the Seat of My Pants, and other contributors to the anthology. I’ll be talking about my essay, “Blackout in Ushuaia.” The show airs from noon to 12:40 Pacific time on NPR. The San Francisco station is KQED (88.5 FM). If you’re on the East Coast, the show airs at 3:00 on your local NPR station

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The Millions points to a cool new independent press out of Seattle, Clear Cut Press, notable for its pocket-sized tomes with detachable covers. The press’s debut title is the anthology The Clear Cut Future, which includes fiction, memoir, poetry, polemical essays, lyrical research, archival texts, photography, painting, and other arts from Clear Cut authors. For the subscription price of $65, you’ll receive eight Clear Cut titles. Unfortunately, the subscription page on Clear Cut’s web site appears to be out of date, so you should ask before subscribing to determine which titles are included in the offer.

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In what novel of Eastern European origin does the narrator find inspiration in an old book shelved in a friend’s house, a book which conjures the likes of Johnny St. Cyr, Tixie Smith, Bud Freeman, and Bix Beiderbecke?

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