Afternoon Bites: Michael Ondaatje, Martha Southgate, John Fahey, and more

At Electric Literature, James Kaelan on Occupy Wall Street and the return of his Zero-Emission Book Project. (Vol.1’s Tobias Carroll reviewed Kaelan’s We’re Getting On for Word Riot last year.)

• Jess Row on Michael Ondaatje’s latest novel, The Cat’s Table: “an affirmation of a literary ethic Ondaatje has devoted his career to rejecting.”

• At Largehearted Boy, Martha Southgate has assembled Book Notes for her novel The Taste of Salt.

• Ta-Nehisi Coates addresses the “genre fiction vs. literary fiction” debate.

• Grayson Currin on the John Fahey collection Your Past Comes Back to Haunt You, at Pitchfork.