Vanity Fair shares an excerpt from n+1 co-editor Chad Harbach‘s debut novel The Art of Fielding. The book appeared on our Great Second-Half of 2011 Book Preview, and it is presently available with each new subscription of n+1.
The Art of Fielding
Robot Virginia Woolf?
You must obey (and read) your robot overlords! As if winning a literary award wasn't already hard enough, a story co-authored by computers just made it through at least one round of judging at the Nikkei Hoshi Shinichi Literary Award competition in Japan. But don't worry, you haven't lost your job quite yet–the good news is that the programs still have "some problems … such as character descriptions.”
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Inside the Hive-Mind of the Class of 2013
For the Class of 2013, salsa has always outsold ketchup. For these and other wry conjectures, see the latest edition Beloit College's annual "Mindset List." (N.B.: For the class of 2013, "mindset" is not a clunky neologism.)
A Literary Conspiracy
Gaddis, Pynchon, "Wanda Tinasky": Jenny Hendrix looks at a real-life literary conspiracy of mistaken identity upon the re-release of "Jack Green's" Fire the Bastards.
Whither the Footy?
Apart from the fact that Anglo-Indian slang is an interesting topic in its own right, you should read this article simply to reward the writer for this lede: “Pyjamas did not exist until the 19th century.”
Worth Its Weight
What's the value of a Nobel Prize? As of last week, at least $250,000.
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