May I Direct Your Attention To...

• Carol Keeley's beautiful, eye-opening essay over at the Ploughshares blog. It's about sentences. And I like sentences, a lot, and Carol covers Fitzgerald, Thomas Wolfe, Don DeLillo, Gary Lutz and David Foster Wallace. The essay also includes one of my favorite DeLillo quotes (from Mao II's Bill Gray): "I'm a sentence maker. Like a donut maker, only slower."

• Tracy Lucas's moving, inspiring post over at the Pank blog. It's heartfelt. It's spot-on. It's good. Very good.

• A roundtable discussion of first books over at Hobart (featuring Kevin Wilson, Laura van den Berg, Roxane Gay, Holly Goddard Jones, Jedediah Berry and more).

• This email exchange between Jonathan Lethem and David Gates.

• Elizabeth Ellen's essay "Stalking Dave Eggers," which is about more than stalking Dave Eggers.

• The announcement that Pank will be publishing Ethel Rohan's Hard to Say. Congratulations, Ethel!

That is all. For now.