Mahfouz’s posthumous bestseller
“The novel that almost cost Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz his life” has become a bestseller upon publication in Egypt, four months after his death. (Via.)
“The novel that almost cost Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz his life” has become a bestseller upon publication in Egypt, four months after his death. (Via.)
Gawker’s new Kreepie Kats feature (above) can only be the work of the man whose Stone Cold Poetry Bitches attended last year’s AWP.
A reader who calls himself Angry Young Man has figured out a way to automate New Yorker cartoon captions — using New Yorker short stories. He writes: I recently discovered the AutoSummarize feature in MS Word, which pulls key sentences from a text and creates an executive summary. I wondered, What if you AutoSummarize an AutoSummary, and so on and . . .
From Barry Hannah’s noir exultation: “Or is this mere geezerage again, from one who seriously misses pinball machines and snooker tables?”
Author Tayari Jones was all for Toni Morrison’s induction into the NJ Hall of Fame — until she realized Morrison is up against Harriet Tubman.