The WaPo‘s Ron Charles delivers a rapid-fire video review of the National Book Award nominees.
An NBA Highlights Reel
Charlotte Brontë’s Voice
While writing about Charlotte Brontë's voice, Bee Wilson pays special attention to the ways the Jane Eyre author "makes a gothic fairy tale about a plain governess so raw and exhilarating."
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Encyclopedic Knowledge
A transcript of Jorge Luis Borges’s conversation with Argentinian poet Osvaldo Ferrari about the power and pleasure of academic knowledge appears in English for the first time. As Borges explains it, "I think that the encyclopedia, for a leisurely, curious man, is the most pleasing of literary genres."
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Lorin Stein Named Editor of the Paris Review
Garth recently posited that Dave Eggers would be a great, if counter-intuitive, replacement for Philip Gourevitch at the Paris Review. Instead, the Paris Review has announced today the equally admirable appointment of FSG editor Lorin Stein to head up the venerable literary magazine. The announcement.
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The Rise of Annotated Literature
Recommended Reading: On how Martin Gardner's The Annotated Alice paved the way for the modern trend of literary annotation.
In Short
What is creepypasta, and what does it have to do with the future of literature? According to this blog post on the Twitter Fiction Festival, it’s a type of short horror fiction which, because it's posted exclusively on the Web, occupies a similar place to Twitter fiction in the ranks of new literary genres. If you want to learn more about Twitter fiction, you could read our own Elizabeth Minkel on the nascent art form.
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On The Making of The Blues Brothers
"'We had a budget in the movie for cocaine for night shoots,' [Dan] Aykroyd says."
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You teased me with NBA in the title ;).