What! Scandal at NEW POP LIT HQ?!

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We’ve heard rumors that NEW POP LIT’s unpaid intern, Slippo T. Hippo, was drinking on the job one night when left alone at NEW POP LIT  headquarters during a recent snowstorm.(We of course, as the Number One literary site in America, have quite lavish digs. Even if they are largely imaginary.) We haven’t confirmed the rumors– but there are a host of compromising photographs making their way across the Internet. Photoshopped?

We are putting an investigator on the case. We hope to recruit the same person investigating the case of the New England Patriots’ mysteriously deflated footballs.

Tom Brady: :”I don’t know anything about anything!”

Slippo T. Hippo: “I know nothing!”

All tips on the matter are welcome.

(Below: the inevitable result?)

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Can Tao Lin Stay Cool?

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The question everyone in the tiny realm of established literature is asking: Can Alt Lit author Tao Lin maintain his cool while controversy swirls around him? Or: Can we save this guy? (The established publishing system and more than a few of its members have invested heavily in Tao. He’s not an Ed Champion who can easily be tossed aside.)

Will the flames of scandal reach through Tao’s solipsistic bubble? For someone who believes there is no right or wrong– there just is— does he even care about any of it? (He will if the paychecks stop coming.)