Quick, Somebody Call Elvis Costello

Somebody actually put the text to Bob Dylan's Tarantula on his website. Which I went looking for on account of this Jim DeRogatis article about new poetry collections from Billy Corgan and Jeff Tweedy, the latter of which is apparently launching a new series from Zoo Press called Nightingale Editions "created to explore the relationship between song and word and explore both the literary possibility and literary merit of contemporary popular lyricists and their material on the page."

Henry Rollins is laughing somewhere, having already staked out this territory for himself ages ago. And, I'm happy to report, having brought back into print Nick Cave's And the Ass Saw the Angel, to which your editor confesses undue attachment, even though Cave once reamed him out on a national radio show for saying the book did a great job of following in Flannery O'Connor's footsteps, because apparently he was tired of hearing that (and also about Faulkner).