Thanks, Ben, for your eager blog postings! You're setting the standard. :)

I work with books, and I look at a lot of bookselling websites and such. This is a fun list I found a bit ago on Abebooks. I love lists. I love books. I love covers of books.

30 Novels Worth Buying For the Cover Alone: http://www.abebooks.com/books/great-fiction-covers.shtml

You'll notice that our (former) very own professor Deb Olin Unferth made the list with her novel, Vacation. Hooray!

I like this thread. I look at a LOT of stuff online when I am trying to avoid writing, or work, and a lot of it isn't writing related in the short-term, but ends up being rather generative.

I look at the websites for about a million journals, but the top hits are: jubilat, black warrior review, tin house, and mid-american review.

I get lost in the message boards and articles @ http://www.pw.org/

I read about lit journals, submission information, contests, track stuff, etc, @ http://litlist.net/

and, um, have you guys ever tried to navigate this?
http://www.lafovea.org/
^^^^ my friend from UT is published in its web, and that's how I found it, and I never found my way out.

and other than that: lots of websites on cooking, bizarre news sites, etc. and, if you're good, and interested, and into me getting REALLY off topic, i'll show you one of the creepiest (coolest) sites on the web.

http://languageisavirus.com/

This site is a real trove that offers "widgets" to cure writer's block and scads of writing prompts.