Trolled by the Swedish Academy: Patrick Modiano’s Nobel Prize in Literature

By Jonathon Sturgeon on Oct 9, 2014 - Flavorwire

This morning readers across America sighed with boredom and mild irritation as the Swedish Academy announced the winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature. Who? Patrick Modiano, a Frenchman who is definitely not J. M. G. Le Clézio or Michel Houellebecq. At first, I felt like I had been trolled by the Academy. If the winner was going to be a “surprise,” why not pick a younger writer? Kipling was only 42 when he won. Or, even better, why not award the Nobel to a writer on the basis of a single work? Hemingway won solely because of The Old Man and the Sea. Or just give it to Adonis already. … Read More

Al Pacino and Greta Gerwig Make Out in Trailer for Roth Adaptation, ‘The Humbling’

By Moze Halperin on Oct 9, 2014

Now that you’ve been sufficiently click-baited (but not deceptively: the mouths of Gerwig and Pacino do, indeed, commingle in… Read More