Murakami takes home his second Frank O’Connor Short Story award for his most recent collection, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (via the Book Depository)
Chalk one point up for the experimentalists: Mark Z. Danielewski’s Only Revolutions: A Novel hits the NYT Bestseller list (via Slushpile.net).
Happy Banned Books Week! Err, I mean, Challenged Books Week? (via Bookslut)
Georgia Tech: Making poetry safe for engineers, one engineer at a time. (via Arts Journal).
There is a saying that, if we recall correctly, suggests that closing the barn door after the horse escapes is rather foolish. Unless you are really trying to protect hay, in which case, you may ultimately be seen as practical.
“Misery is melding with celebrity now, which is very interesting, as it means you can hit two markets with the book.”
Take heart, beer-lovers: Sir Peter Hall, the founder of the Royal Shakespeare Company, suggests the bard’s bad-line days were the result of his being blotto the night before (as, often enough, was Ben Jonson. Sometimes they had to bring him home in a wheelbarrow).