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Literary games & toys

• I’ve been Kerouacking through life — but I should have been a Faulkner

  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… Read more »

• SLIDESHOW: Best literary curios on Tumblr

  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.… Read more »

• A book for every minute of the day? The Guardian is looking for time-specific literary quotes.

  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… Read more »

• Scrabble announces new "dumfuck edition"

  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… 3 / Read more »

• Author, Author, ignores Google, Google . . .

  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 —… Read more »

• Kerouac gets into Hall before Gil Hodges . . .

  “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… Read more »

• Author, Author, ignores Google, Google . . .

  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 —… Read more »