Jill Abramson, the former Times executive editor, revealed more details of the media company she’s working on with journalist Steven Brill. Abramson says she’ll pay $100,000 advances (yes, you read that correctly) to writers so they can work on novella-length stories that will be featured online, with one new story appearing each month.

At the Paris Review Daily, authors Michael McGriff and J. M. Tyree discuss their new book, Our Secret Life in the Movies, a book of short stories about the writers’ year spent watching the entire Criterion Collection together. "We were watching two or three

In a piece about the recently deceased Ben Bradlee, Bookforum editor Chris Lehmann describes the former WaPo editor’s memorial service and notes: “Part of what made the scene at the cathedral a bit harrowing in its palpable longing to continue worshiping the fallen editorial hero of the Watergate years is that today’s Washington Post is just a shadow of its former self.”

At the Telegraph, Rupert Hawksley writes that Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s We Should All Be Feminists—based on a Ted Talk she gave in 2012, “might just be the most important book you read all year.”

Later this week, an exhibition

The Intercept gives the backstory to Matt Taibbi’s recent departure from First Look (its parent company), describing his resignation as the result of “months of contentious disputes” that Taibbi had with Pierre Omidyar, Randy Ching, and John Temple (First Look’s founder, COO, and president, respectively). Taibbi had been hired to head Racket, which was conceived of as a satirical magazine, but problems arose over the “structure and management” of the site. According to Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, Jeremy Scahill, and Jon Cook (all are listed as authors on the story), the conflict has to do

The poet Galway Kinnell died on Tuesday in Vermont. He was eighty-seven. Poetry, Kinnell said, “is somebody standing up, so to speak, and saying, with as little concealment as possible, what it is for him or her to be on earth at this moment.” Read some of his poems at the Poetry Foundation.

Knopf has signed a two-book, six-figure deal with Stephanie Danler, a thirty-year-old writer who managed to attract attention to the manuscript of her debut novel, Sweetbitter, by mentioning it to Peter Gethers—the editor-at-large of Penguin Random House who is a regular at the West Village restaurant

In Ballast to the White Sea, a novel by Malcolm Lowry thought to have been lost in a fire, is being published in Canada in a scholarly edition by the University of Ottawa Press. Jan Gabriel, Malcolm’s first wife, had apparently kept an early version of the manuscript, which she gave to the New York Public Library in 2000.

Zadie Smith, Margaret Atwood, Julian Barnes, Alan Hollinghurst, and others will auction off the right to name certain characters in their novels. Atwood offers the chance of appearing as yourself in the book she's currently writing or in the retelling of The Tempest that she

CBC host Jian Ghomeshi has been asked to take a leave of absence from work due to allegations of engaging in nonconsensual violent sexual behavior with three women. Jesse Brown broke the story, with the help of the Toronto Star. For Americans who don't know who Ghomeshi is (first important fact: He's Canadian), Gawker has a primer. CBC is like NPR but "more influential," says Gawker, and Ghomeshi is like Ira Glass but "less serious." Ghomeshi followed up news of the allegations with a Facebook post in which he said he had been the target of “harassment, vengeance and demonization.” As of Tuesday

At the Times, Ravi Somaiya reports on Facebook engineer Greg Marra, who helps determine what Facebook users see in the site’s news feed, and who is “fast becoming one of the most influential people in the news business.” The homepages of news sites are becoming less and less of a reader destination; social-media sites, meanwhile, are sending people to actual stories. “The shift raises questions about the ability of computers to curate news, a role traditionally played by editors,” Somaiya writes. “It also has broader implications for the way people consume information, and thus how they see

Amazon’s bad third-quarter earnings report prompted the price of its shares to fall by 10 percent.

The conservative writer Ross Douthat apologized for attending a fundraiser in support of the Alliance Defending Freedom, a nonprofit opposed to gay rights. Douthat said that he was “not aware” that the event was a fundraiser for the group; rather, he said, he thought it was to be a “public conversation about religious liberty.” He will decline the honorarium.

The Guardian adds a number of opinion writers to its ranks, including Roxanne Gay, Reza Aslan, Rebecca Solnit, and Jeb Lund.

Jon Weiner

Ben Bradlee, long-time editor of the Washington Post,died on Tuesday. He was ninety-three. Bradlee was in charge of the Post for twenty-six years, during which time the paper broke Watergate and won seventeen Pulitzers.

Vogue has an exclusive preview of Griffin Dunne’s new documentary about Joan Didion, We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live. A Kickstarter supporting the film has already raised more than half of its $80,000 goal. A $35 donation will be reciprocated with a handwritten list of Didion's twelve favorite books. A $50 donation comes with a PDF of her handwritten recipe book,

Music & Literature No. 5 is out, with portfolios of the Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho, the Norwegian writer Stig Sæterbakken, and the Chinese writer Can Xue. Each issue of the journal, which appears in print, celebrates three under-recognized artists, featuring work by and about them. Saariaho will present a concert on November 20 at the Scandinavia House to mark the issue launch. Past issues have profiled Clarice Lispector, László Krasznahorkai, Bela Tarr, Arvo Pärt, Mary Ruefle, and Vladimír Godár, among others. Read an interview with the journal’s editors, Taylor Davis Van-Atta and Daniel

At Poynter, Andrew Beaujon has posted an opinion piece about three journalism schools that have rescinded invitations to journalists due to fears of Ebola. After quoting the statements explaining the cancellations, Beaujon writes: “‘Caution,’ ‘questions,’ ‘sensitive’—these are all apparently synonyms for willful disregard for facts, which is a curious fit for journalism schools, institutions that purportedly train people how to report what they know.”After Margo Howard’s new book Eat, Drink, and Remarry received bad reviews from Amazon’s Vine Community, an “elite” group of reviewers who weigh

Mark Sarvas’s Elegant Variation, started in 2003, was one of the original and most popular book blogs. After his novel Harry, Revised was published in 2008, Sarvas stepped away from the blog, but according to a new post, TEV is back, in a slightly different format. “I've been attracted to and inspired by the intimacy and samizdat feel of the newsletter form, and thought I'd try a little experiment,” Sarvas writes. “I'm leaving the form open to revision (and feedback—please), but I envision an email digest (perhaps weekly, perhaps bi-weekly) for my friends, former students and perhaps interested