The Paris Review

• E. L. Konigsburg, author of beloved children’s titles The View from Saturday, A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver, and, most famously, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, has died, at eighty-three.
• Speaking of people in museums past closing hours, Whitey Bulger is the subject of another book. (Considering he is “known to be a book reader,” maybe he won’t mind too much.)
• In other Boston news, The New Yorker talks literature, violence, and the Caucasus in light of last week’s tragic events.
• And in case you missed this informative memo to tweeters: Chechens are not from the Czech Republic.
• The 2012 LA Times Book Prize winners have been announced.

Guy Laramee’s paper landscapes.

A cultural news roundup.

• Want to know the books Whitey Bulger would have taken to the grave?
• Paper landscapes, a tsunami of pages—this is extreme editing.
• Be Kind to Books Club. Some propaganda never gets old.
• Self-promotion knows no boundaries.
• “You can’t turn Infinite Jest into a two-hour play. You can’t put it on a conventional stage. And you can’t send your audience away without at least a small dose of pain.”
• A giant squid invades Paris in Fiona Apple’s new music video.
• R.I.P. Gitta Sereny.
• The conspiracy is alive: find a Thomas Pynchon “Trystero” near you.
• Twilight is not an acceptable nomination.
• Paging Jonathan Franzen. #OccupyGaddis begins now!
• Flannery O’Connor reads “A Good Man is Hard to Find” in a rare 1959 recording.
• What happens when you leave a group of boys around art? The sculptor Eva Rothschild finds out.