The Morning News Tournament of Books is almost here, and to stoke our excitement, the editors drew up this neat-looking circular bracket. If you squint at the top left, you’ll see our own Edan Lepucki, who’s judging The Round House by Louise Erdrich and The Fault in our Stars by John Green.
It’s Bracket Season
Sartre and the Nobel Prize
50 years and 1 day ago Jean-Paul Sartre turned down the Nobel Prize in Literature. Yesterday Steve Neumann wrote for The Airship about what writers can learn from Sartre's refusal.
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On The Road With DFW, Part II
At Condalmo, Matthew Tiffany's review of David Lipsky's new book, Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip With David Foster Wallace: "You can’t go more than two or three pages without Lipsky’s shadow falling over the text. And you aren’t reading this book for the Lipsky, are you? The biggest problem here is that, like it or not, his fingerprints are all over it. And I didn’t like it."
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Revisiting Vanessa Veselka
On the Rise of the Mass Intelligentsia
The intelligentsia has been growing larger and more democratic for hundreds of years, but the spread of today’s mass intelligentsia “is arguably happening on a far larger scale,” writes Philosophy For Life author Jules Evans.
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The Seduction of Deductions
“Tax authorities in Finland are turning to poetry in a bid to get more firms to file their tax returns electronically.”
Raise a Glass to That
Pop Chart Lab’s latest creation depicts some of the most famous cocktail-and-character pairings in literature and film. The gamut runs from Daisy Buchanan’s Mint Julep to The Dude’s White Russian. (Of course, the Preakness Stakes are this weekend, so really you should be drinking Black Eyed Susans.)
Have to say, I think Edan has the toughest/weirdest match-up to judge. I do not envy that position.