Mediocrity is not the solution: on the new National Book Awards
Dustin Kurtz
The NBA responds to criticisms that the prize has become less culturally relevant… Read more »
Watson gets its mouth cleaned out
Sal Robinson
Watson, IBM’s Jeopardy!-trouncing supercomputer, has come farther than we’d thought: Eric Brown, the researcher who works with Watson, has had to wipe the contents of the Urban Dictionary from its… Read more »
Poet wins contest …. by copying another poet
Kelly Burdick
Poet Christian Ward recently won the Exmoor Society’s Hope Bourne poetry prize, but there’s a problem, as Alison Flood reports in the Guardian: Organisers later discovered that it [Ward’s poem… Read more »
Martin Luther’s big book of insults
Kevin Murphy
You there! You look like you’re feeling pretty good. What, did you give a fancy presentation at work that had the bosses smiling and winking approvals? Or maybe you and… Read more »
Philip Roth thinks it’s over
Dennis Johnson
Our recent posts about Philip Roth — such as Monday’s post about his regard for his own books, and yesterday’s post about his supposed retirement from writing — have drawn… Read more »
