Alexander Nazaryan at the Daily News (New York — not L.A. or Galveston) has compiled a list of neologisms, taken from the online Urban Dictionary, all derived from the names of famous authors. “They represent the history of literature as seen by millions of 17-year-olds today,” he…
Here’s an idea you’ll wish you’d had yourself: framing your favourite literary characters as criminals at large. New Tumblr The Composites runs descriptive passages from works of fiction through police composite imaging software. See a selection of our favourites below; who’d’ve thunk a software package could…
Earlier this month Nick Moran at The Millions posted a great guide to the best literary Tumblrs. We’ve been enjoying them ever since and highly recommend it as high-minded time-killer. Here’s a slideshow of a few of our favorite oddities:
Inspired by Christian Marclay‘s art film “The Clock,” in which thousands of movie clips were edited together to create a 24-hour film that shows an entire day pass through cinema clock faces, The Guardian is challenging its readers to submit time-specific moments from novels to…
A major world-changing event rocked the literary world over the weekend. The iPad? Are you kidding? They changed the rules of Scrabble! Proper nouns are now allowed, according to a BBC News wire report: The Mattel company announced “Place names, people’s names and company names…
For bibliophiles, it has long been one of life’s most delicious, and torturous, little pleasures: the “Author, Author” quiz in the Times Literary Supplement. But now the weekly quiz — which “offers three thematically linked, stunningly obscure quotations and asks who wrote them” — is…
“A bobble-head doll of Beat Generation author Jack Kerouac created as a promotion by the minor-league Lowell Spinners joined the collection at the Baseball Hall of Fame Wednesday,” reports an Associated Press wire story. The team handed out 1,000 of the dolls as a promotion…
For bibliophiles, it has long been one of life’s most delicious, and torturous, little pleasures: the “Author, Author” quiz in the Times Literary Supplement. But now the weekly quiz — which “offers three thematically linked, stunningly obscure quotations and asks who wrote them” — is…
