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
Orlando
"I have often thought that if I were ever a drag queen, and more specifically that if I were ever a drag queen who was a contestant on RuPaul’s Drag Race, I would play Virginia Woolf — or rather, Nicole Kidman as Virginia Woolf — in the Snatch Game episode when the contestants don their very best celebrity impersonation." Untucking RuPaul's Drag Race at The Los Angeles Review of Books.
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Secret Machines
Recommended Reading: Cody Delistraty's interview with Kazuo Ishiguro. You could also read our own Lydia Kiesling on the author's new novel The Buried Giant.
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Master Palindromist
Today's long read begins like this: "In March 2010, Barry Duncan, master palindromist, was locked in an epic struggle with the alphabet."
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#LastTweet
The Times collects the final tweets of a number of celebrities who died this year. They are generally banal but the context turns them poignant.
“I have always wondered.”
John Jeremiah Sullivan’s "Diary" for the Financial Times features the Mars Curiosity, Quaker school songs, and all sorts of family bonding.
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J.M. Coetzee on Philip Roth
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Have to say, I think Edan has the toughest/weirdest match-up to judge. I do not envy that position.