HEIDI JULAVITS—Julavits' latest puts diary-keeping into (lengthy) book form. Shelby King wishes it hadn't. "In the first paragraph of The Folded Clock: A Diary, author Heidi Julavits writes about watching the clock as a child, wondering 'Will this day ever end?' I asked that same question many times while reading," she writes. Ouch. My condolences, Shelby.

KATHLEEN HANNA—Kathleen Hanna is coming to Portland next week! In advance of her Riot Grrrl Then and Now lecture, here's what she told me about, Bikini Kill, '90s nostalgia, her current projects, and why no one should actually be clamoring to launch Riot Grrrl Part Deux. Hanna's lecture is sold out, so here's a delightful recent interview with (!) W. Kamau Bell:

BLACK CAKE RECORDS—Did you know that Portland has its own record label devoted to free multimedia recordings from local writers? We didn't either, so Joshua James Amberson investigated. "[Founder Kelly] Schirmann doesn't set strict constraints on Black Cake's sound projects, preferring to let the poets choose their own approaches," he reports. "While this prompts some to create work that falls somewhere between art forms, others create comparatively straightforward audio chapbooks."

Also on our art radar: Heidi Schwegler's horrifying art, Portland's rising stars of stand-up, and, um, booknerds warring over tote bags.