Uber Crunch! Jad Fair for Dr. Kracker

Six Sentences

New fiction at Six Sentences : Weekend Visitation

Lucinda Williams record review at CMG

I’m a contributing writer for a new music magazine called Country Music Goodness. Read my first review here:

Little Honey – Lucinda Williams – Lost Highway Records

Studs Terkel — May 6, 1912 – Oct. 31, 2008

Broadcaster, writer, historian, actor, a man wholly worthy of admiration and who described no one as ‘ordinary’, dead at 96.

Obituaries:

NY Times

Chicago Tribune

Black Cover

Thanks to the good folks at Black Cover, we have an alternative to the expensive (albeit high-quality) Moleskine notebooks. We here at Shoddy First Draft love quality stationery at low prices, and the Piccadilly notebooks are available at your local Borders Books.

James Wood article in NYTimes

The Republican war on words.

Sen. John McCain and the U.S. financial crisis

Thanks to Tom Sutpen for originally featuring this within his Politicians in Action theme on his website.