Gone Girl writer Gillian Flynn has written a comic, Masks, about a mother who retaliates against her son’s bully. It will be released by Dark Horse in February.
Lynne Tillman on cynicism at Frieze: “I’m not a cynic. I prefer irony, which depends on the ability to hold contradictory ideas, which probably springs from ambivalence. People confuse and conflate irony with insincerity and dishonesty; they believe an ironist isn’t serious. But saying the opposite of what is meant allows for at least two meanings to fly.”
Ed Park is leaving Amazon and the Little A imprint he helped to launch to become executive editor of Penguin Press. At Vulture, Boris Kaschka says that Park’s departure will make it hard for Amazon to retain any literary credibility. The company has, however, beat out competitors for the right to use the .book and .pay domains.
Time Magazine is asking you to vote on the worst words of the year. Fine—except they can’t figure out the difference between a word and a phrase, and they’re trying ban the word feminist.
Adrian Chen has won a Sidney award from the Hillman Foundation for his Wired story about the Facebook workers—known as “content moderators”—who protect users from seeing certain images (read: dick pics and beheading videos).