Elementary, My Dear Cosplayers

Neil Gaiman announced the launch of his first video game, Wayward Manor. The horror-fantasy author (whose latest book was recently reviewed by our own Tess Malone) told Mashable that the game follows “the misadventures of a ghost who wants nothing more than a peaceful afterlife.”

"Because I now know that the man who had come to the door was my mother’s stalker, I’ve injected the memory of his arrival at my childhood home with more detail than I actually possess." From Catapult, the latest installment of "After a Fashion," writer Esmé Weijun Wang’s monthly column examining articles of clothing she owns and the stories behind them. Consider also our review of Women In Clothes, an anthology resulting from the collaboration of authors Sheila Heti and Heidi Julavits.

McSweeney's has a personal account of the end of an antiquarian book business.  This is a bummer (the bankruptcy, not the writing of Bill Cotter, a very pleasant man to whom I once tried to sell a book).  (Via).

Recommended reading: Michael Booth writes for The Paris Review about the work of Danish author Aksel Sandemose and the "enduring mark on the national character" his satirical Jante Law has left.

My story "I am the Lion Now" is the Story of the Week at Narrative Magazine.

At N+1, Marco Roth autopsies "the neuronovel" - think Motherless Brooklyn (Tourette's), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (autism), Lowboy (paranoid schizophrenia), The Echo Maker (Capgras syndrome), and Atmospheric Disturbances (Capgras again?) - and finds "sign[s] of the novel's diminishing purview."