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Recommended Reading: László Krasznahorkai’s “I Don't Need Anything from Here,” which might be one of the shortest sentences he’s ever written.

“What would be the consequences,” asks Charlie Stross, “if a large internet corporation such as Google were to buy the entire publishing industry?” Would such a buyout “amount to a wholesale shift to a promotion-supported model for book publishing?”

William Carlos Williams's birthday was this last week, and Adam Kirsch writes about the poet for New York Review of Books. Though he argues that "today it would be hard to find a reader of poetry who would not acknowledge William Carlos Williams as one of the major American modernists" Kirsch still has to face the question, "why is it, then, that almost fifty years after his death, the reputation of [Williams] still seems to be haunted by a ghost of uncertainty?"

“’There is absolutely no truth to this allegation [that the CIA is trying to remove ‘ë’ from the Russian alphabet],’ the spokesperson told the Wall Street Journal. ‘The Agency supports the practice of good grammar and pronunciation in any language.’”

Have you ever dreamed of  this man?  (via.)