Tomorrow night, I’ll be reading with the incomparable James Kennedy at the incomparable Quimby’s. Come out and say hello. We can raise and clunk cans of High Life together.

But mostly, I’m interested in how digital and print can interact.

The book isn’t in trouble, it’s that everyone who takes some of the money that a consumer pays for an author’s content need to re-justify their share and not assume that because they used to get that % they still in fact deserve that %. And I sense too many people hiding behind the notion that this has something to do with grandiose cultural notions about the life and death of the book rather than more quotidien concerns about the vision and competence of individuals populating this business.

Last night was also crazy for basketball, with the Bulls and Heat hitting two overtimes, before Dwyane Wade stuck a ridiculous three at the buzzer. I checked the box scores last night, and was happy for my boy Ben Gordon, who went 8 for 11 from beyond the arc, racking up 43 points to D-Wade’s 48.

Then I watched the highlights on ESPN.com. Incredible. You would think that no one on the court had a good game except for Wade. It’s such an annoying ESPN move, the persistent need to create these mythical tales around a select few players. In a double-overtime game there are only two Bulls possessions featured. It’s hilarious. Check out ESPN’s highlights, then MaxaMillion711 (this YouTube genius who turns NBA games into NFL Films). Are they even taken from the same game?

Lots going on with the ‘proof. To wit:

• Grow is now out and about. If you like children, you’ll like giving them a copy. Even if they’re strangers.
• Paper Egg, our new subscription imprint is soaking up subscribers like crazy. Currently working on Christian TeBordo’s The Awful Possibilities, our first title. And if you haven’t already, subscribe, and get a free copy of Amelia Gray’s AM/PM!
• The Featherproof Remix idea has generated some buzz, as has the contest attached to it. We’re remixing Scorch Atlas, Blake Butler’s novel-in-stories that arrives this fall.
• Reading tonight in Hyde Park at Series A. Planning on reading a new and an old piece.
• Release party for Patrick Somerville’s The Cradle on Monday night, with another mini-book release, and a beard-lift. It’s going to be some action.

After all of that, more posting here, not much going on until May, more sleep till Brooklyn.

Monday night is the famed No Love for Love, which I’m hosting, and which Peter Sagal is headlining. A couple of years back, I performed there, and did a quiz show called “Guess the Context”, in which I recounted the many terrible things girls have said to me over my lifetime, and the audience had to guess the context of those statements. This time, it’ll likely just be a story, because now I’m married, and my wife is really nice.

After that, it’s all AWP, all the time. We have a big release party planned for AM/PM on Friday the 13th, and The Dollar Store will be a part of that. Here’s the poster, below (click (maybe twice) to make it bigger). Michael Renaud made it. It’s incredible. More soon!

You could bear it by coming out to the Innertown Pub tonight, at 7:30pm, for the latest Quickies!, at which I’ll read a new story in less than five minutes. Come on out. It’s barely winter.

See you then!

If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino (finally!)
You Remind Me of Me by Dan Chaon
Ordinary Wolves by Seth Kantner
The Slide by Kyle Beachy
The Great Perhaps by Joe Meno

We’ll see if we can get through them all, but I get ambitious this time of year.