
Parul Sehgal (via Twitter)
- Welcoming The New York Times‘s new head book critic, Parul Sehgal. (NYT)
- Irish government buys poet W.B. Yeats’s artifacts from private collector after public outcry. (The Irish Times)
- The internet is going crazy over this video of Idris Elba reading fan-fiction about himself. (TIME)
- Amazon is adapting Marlon James’s Booker-winning novel A Brief History of Seven Killings for TV. (HuffPost)
- A look at the forthcoming film adaptation of Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation, starring Natalie Portman. (IndieWire)
- Long-lost letter that inspired Jack Kerouac’s On the Road to be publicly displayed at Emory University. (NYT)
- Forthcoming Sylvia Plath book shows publishers are still sadly misrepresenting the author. (The Guardian)
- Spotify provides 55-hour playlist of Nobel Prize for Literature winner Bob Dylan’s ouevre. (Open Culture)
- Narrative teams blurring the line between literature and visual art. (Electric Literature)