Recommended Reading: Owen Hatherley at the London Review of Books discusses postcapitalism and a world run by clicks: “The sin of ‘original research?’ – a solecism nearly as grave as ‘citation needed’ – is another reminder that the non-postcapitalist labour of academics is the basis of nearly the entire operation. Wikipedia is less a new form of knowledge than a novel packaging of an old one.”
Point and Click
Come On, Karma
From Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest to George Wickham in Pride and Prejudice, here are five of the most annoyingly unpunished characters in all of literature. Can we petition to have Daisy Buchanan (The Great Gatsby) added to this list?
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Howling Against Censorship
A San Francisco prisoner wanted to read werewolf erotica so badly that he took it to state court. The case has brought up problems with prison censorship and calls to mind Avi Steinberg’s memoir, Running the Books: Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian (here’s our review.)
Hold Off on Your Coronavirus Novel, Please
Has quarantine cabin fever driven you to write a COVID-19-inspired novel? Sloane Crosley kindly asks you to put it aside—just for now.
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Neil Gaiman Nachos
Neil Gaiman’s writing gets compared to “a great bowl of nachos” in Nikki Steele’s food-focused review of The Ocean at the End of the Lane. Pair with: our own Nick Moran on how his favorite books influence his appetite.