The natural and the supernatural dance under the Northern lights in Tanya Tagaq’s first novel, Split Tooth.

Mortal Micronotz, Smash, Live, The Beast that Devoured Itself, 40 Fingers (Bar/None). Review by Scott Adams.

Let Me Hang You (Khannibalism/Ernest Jenning Record Co.). Review by James Mann.

Various Artists (Howe). Review by James Mann.

Whoever said “If you can remember the ’60s, you weren’t there” obviously never met Ed Sanders. The leader of The Fugs and the Peace Eye bookstore recalls the counter-culture of the 1960s in vivid detail.

Matthew Moyer thinks Dave Thompson’s Patti Smith bio just might tide you over until Smith delivers on the promised second volume of her memoir.

Kicking off Ink 19’s new series, Labels We Love, S D Green talks to ZE Records co-founder Michel Esteban about defining a sound and establishing a label during New York’s 1970s creative zeitgeist, and the resurrection of the label that was once home to Lydia Lunch, Suicide, and Kid Creole & the Coconuts.

Carl F Gauze , who may or may not be a card-carrying member of the Blank Generation, follows punk godfather Richard Hell from the seedy world of rock to the perhaps seedier world of the written word.

Merry F#%$in’ Christmas (Comedy Central). Review by Jason Plender.

A.R.E. Weapons (Rough Trade). Review by Matthew Moyer.

James Mann wonders what Americans have to be thankful for while analyzing William S. Burroughs’ “A Thanksgiving Prayer.”