Man, oh man. In recent weeks, we’ve been following the ongoing drama at the Swedish Academy, which awards each year’s Nobel Prize in Literature. It’s been a mess. Well, now things have gotten much… Read more »

A couple of weeks ago, we wrote about some #MeToo drama that has sent the Nobel committee into a full-on Blåsväder (a Swedish cousin to our own “shit storm”). Well, the Blåsväder has yet… Read more »

It’s not often that a king’s sadness is covered by the Associated Press, and a headline such as “Swedish king saddened by trouble in Nobel literature body” portends strange times… Read more »

Are we living in an era of throwaway literature? Seventy-year-old French writer Serge Volle thought so, and went about proving it. He sent chapters of one of his favourite classics to… Read more »

The world has a new Nobel laureate in literature. Some people are excited, some people are pissed, and some people just went to see The Book of Mormon. On Thursday,… Read more »

The morning of Thursday, October 5, 2017. Philip Roth sits across from his longtime literary agent Andrew Wiley. At eighty-four years old, Roth is once again considered a top contender… Read more »

Yesterday, we wrote at some length about Nobel Laureate Bob Dylan’s recent Nobel Lecture, in which NLBD, beatifically wearing his trademark colors of aloof bemusement, self-effacing grandiosity, serious good humor, and genial… Read more »

By now you’re presumably aware of the Swedish Academy’s brilliant decision last October to award noted non-potato-chip Bob Dylan the Nobel Prize in Literature. To paraphrase a great thinker: Yes, y’all. Yes. After the dizzying… Read more »

In what is slated to be one of the cutest acts ever undertaken by a group of Vikings, members of the Swedish Academy are loading up their fanny packs and… Read more »

We all know 2016 has been a bloodbath. I say: let us not only mourn the dead, but also celebrate the living! And there’s good news on that front: as… Read more »