Wednesday Linkstorm

Are you in for Jon Krakauer's birthday party tomorrow night? I gotta tell the tapas place how many.Today's best link: Christoph Niemann made a sketch for the Huffington Post depicting his bedside table. Hey, that looks just like YOUR bedside table (minus 2666, plus the Twilight box set, minus that sock, plus your LARPING hat).Book tours are all wall to wall groupies and champagne poppin' after parties on sick zebra-print buses right? RIGHT?One more (oldish) thing from The Awl. Literary types you've heard of (Sloane Crosley, Lorin Stein, John Jeremiah Sullivan, Ariel Levy, many more) talk about books they used to love that now make them cringe. Pretty much alternates between Atlas Shrugged and On the Road. What would yours be?The Millions has an essay by Kevin Hartnett about writing by hand. Check back next week for my essay on writing by foot. YOUR MOVE, HARTNETT.If you like cool things (You: I don't like cool things. I am literally a monster.) please click on this gallery of crazy book designs. Glow in the dark book, you guys! Chia pet book! Mechanical book!An interview with Whit Stillman and Mark Leyner about their first projects in 15 years. Who's going to see Damsels in Distress this weekend? Well, that will depend on whether it's coming to Regal 12 in Newington, New Hampshire (it's not).Here is Chip Kidd talking about designing book jackets at the 2012 TED Conference. Watch a few minutes of it, he is ridiculously likable and his blazer game is on point.This is a week old, but in dream girlfriend news, your dream girlfriend Carrie Brownstein (of Portlandia and Wild Flag and Sleater-Kinney) is writing a memoir!David Rees, cartoonist behind Bush-era comic Get Your War On and world's funniest man, has a book coming out today about artisanal pencil sharpening. No joke, it is seriously about that! Ugh, he's the best. Interview with GQ here.--Erin Somers