• The world celebrates the centenary of Samuel Beckett’s birth next year. (Via Bookslut.)

• Search for words by concept with the One Look Reverse Dictionary.

• Translator Edith Grossman and Cuban novelist Mayra Montero interview each other. “I’m curious: How did you feel when you first read my translation of your work into English?” Grossman asks. “As though I were in front of a mirror,” Montero says.

• For an elective Bible study class, a Texas school district has adopted a text put out by a Protestant religious advocacy group. An SMU professor evaluated the book last fall and said it contained “factual errors, promoted creationism and taught that the Constitution was based on Scripture.”

• Action star Paul Walker joins Anthony Hopkins in a stop-and-go film about Hemingway.

• “A New York Times Exclusive” on the writing of Tom Clancy’s Latest Novel, by Greg Ames.