CAAF: Morning coffee

• Bookslut pushes the poetry of Philip Whalen. In addition to those links, you can read some of Whalen’s poetry as well as explore other writings and biographia.
• Joan Didion, short and long.
• “Read this and never come back”: Marginalia of a county jail library. The jail is located in Dade County, Wisconsin, so Madison-ish. Here is the library’s “Most Wanted” list (jail humor!), and you can help with a book or two. (Via The Dizzies.)
• Speaking of breaking the law, one of the best news stories to emerge from Asheville in recent weeks was the arrest of (alleged) moonshine king Marvin “Popcorn” Sutton. The ATF has shut down quite a few moonshiners in the area in the past year; I don’t know the reason for the stepped-up policing, but it certainly invites some investigative reportage beyond “boy, it sure is harder to procure moonshine lately”. As Mountain Xpress notes, Popcorn once authored a book called Me and My Likker, which may have, you know, helped tip off authorities. The book’s out of print now so it’s impossible to verify the rumor that it included a fold-out map with the sites of Popcorn’s stills marked with big black “x”s.