Andrew Roe

“I think you’ve become a Tylenol junkie.”

“Do you want to wear your pimp hat?”

“Bye-bye, pee. Bye-bye, poo.”

“Why don’t you like Radiohead anymore?”

“It’s not okay to hit. We don’t hit in our house. We’re pacifists here. Look at the beard. See?”

“DJ Lance is cool.”

“You guys are acting all coked out like Stephen Stills.”

“Please don’t eat the cat food again.”

“Minnie is, uh, Mickey’s special lady friend.”

“Bye-bye, pee-pee. Bye-bye, poo-poo.”

“Elmo needs a switchblade to the head.”

“Yo.”

“What do you guys have against sleeping in?”

George Saunders remembers David Foster Wallace:

“I don’t know much about Dave’s spiritual life but I see him as a great American Buddhist writer, in the lineage of Whitman and Ginsberg. He was a wake-up artist. That was his work, as I see it, both on the page and off it: he went around waking people up. He was, if this is even a word, a celebrationist, who gave us new respect for the world through his reverence for it, a reverence that manifested as attention, an attention that produced that electrifying, all-chips-in, aware-in-all-directions prose of his.”

More here (keep scrolling; there are many remembrances of other writers who died in the past decade).

This one is called “Burn Rate.”

It features a hot air balloon ride, classic rock and much, much more.

The rest of the issue looks great, featuring folks like Jen Michalski, Ben Loory, Steve Himmer, and much, much more.

• Don DeLillo, A.M. Homes, Edward Albee and other writers rally for the release of Chinese writer Liu Xiaobo. (Link includes video of the event, which happened last night in a snowy NYC, on the steps of the New York Public Library.)

• Meg Pokrass writes Ethel Rohan’s life story.
  

• Holly Goddard Jones’ “Why I Quit Facebook.” (I can relate to some of her points.)

• Ravi Mangla picks the best of Wigleaf for 2009.

• New issue of elimae.

• Dave Clapper talks about some new editorial changes at SmokeLong Quarterly.
  

• Sadly, Vic Chesnutt died last week.