Soup and Salad: What Not To Say To a Writer, David Foster Wallace Symposium, Book Sculptures, 50 Coolest Book Covers, Best Baby Gift for a Writer, Joseph Heller's Desk, What Writers Can Learn From Charlie Sheen, A Conversation With Ben Fountain and Alan H

A word of explanation about today's menu: Yes, many of these links direct you to articles which appeared as long ago as April of this year (which is like a decade in Internet years!).  The reason is a simple and pitiful one: my email inbox has spiraled out of control this year and, despite all my best efforts to tame it and weed it on a daily basis, it has overgrown until it resembles something like electronic kudzu.  I've been saving newsletters and book-related links of inter...