Instapoetry Month

D.T. Max's forthcoming David Foster Wallace biography, Every Love Story is a Ghost Story, has been excerpted  in Newsweeek magazine, and you can read it online.

"There is always something lost, or exchanged, when the imagined world evoked by the written word, unique for every reader, is replaced by a provided set of visual references. In this particular case, the artist is faced with translating the unbelievable, even the metaphysical, into visual imagery, and within a relatively constrained form." Jenna Brager on Hope Larson's graphic novel adaptation of A Wrinkle in Time.

"People who grew up loving From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankenweiler and Night at the Museum can now get pretty close to fulfilling their dream of spending the night surrounded by classic books and artworks." Condé Nast Traveler reports on the hotel at Gladstone's Library in Wales in Hawarden, Flintshire, where guests can sleep in one of 26 rooms with access to the stacks until 10 p.m.

Mary Ruefle wrote an outstanding essay on her development as a writer. "I remember the first time I realized the world we are born into," she writes, "is not the one we leave."