Pocohontar

Which words would you banish?

Ben Okri is writing a poem celebrating 2010 on Twitter, to last all of January.

Avahontas. Pocohontar.

Enough with the Jane Austen mashups already.

Books have been banned from all flights by airline Transport Canada in the wake of the foiled Christmas Day attack.

100 years of literary noughtiness.

Book blurb of the week: “…the most pestilential book ever vomited, I think, from the jaws of hell.”

Once again, there is hope yet for the written word.

And to help get you through the first full week of 2010: Student brings a typewriter to class, professor asks him, “Can you mute the sound?” Read more »

Are computer-generated animations the actors of the future?

Despairing video game poetry.

How much cash is a short story worth?

The sexiest poem of 2009.

Will films like Avatar usher in an actorless era?

Speaking of, Boing Boing proposes some storytelling risks that Avatar could have taken.

The New York Times offers some tips on cleaning out your library.

Where does your favorite author place on this tourist map of literature?

And because it’s the holidays and I’m feeling oddly sentimental, here are 156 countries singing The Beatles’ “All You Need Is Love.” Read more »