The NBAs (you know, the book ones) have come and gone for another year. And the winners are …

Meanwhile, E. L. Doctorow, who was awarded the 2013 Medal for Distinguished Contributors to American Letters, called the Internet “ubiquitous and loomingly present in everything we do.”

Peter Rabbit, Jay Gatsby, and eleven other characters you wish would snap out of it.

Following the 2012 death of T. S. Eliot’s widow, Eliot’s estate is going on the block. (At the end of the day, it seems nothing is as valuable as Cats!)