Here’s a great article, an excerpt from Sterling Lord’s new book, Lord of Publishing. Lord was agent to both Jack Kerouac and Ken Kesey, and this recounts the two authors’ only meeting.

And here’s another about Charles Bukowski. It’s a Q&A with David Calonne who edited Bukowski’s columns “Notes of a Dirty Old Man” and the book compiling them: More Notes of a Dirty Old Man.