Morning roundup …

… Courtesy of Dave Lull:

… the envelope, please: The Edgar® Nominees.

… Taking stock: That’s Material: An Interview with Daniel Menaker.

Most of the blunders recounted by Menaker aren’t too dire, but he remains haunted by the inadvertent role he played in his only sibling’s untimely death. During a game of touch football in 1967, he challenged his older brother, Mike, to play backfield despite Mike’s bad knees, and from there everything went horribly amiss: Mike, then twenty-nine, sustained an injury that led to knee surgery, and this surgery led to a fatal blood infection called septicemia.

…  Local, local, local: The Dictionary of American Regional English: Recent Developments.

… 28 Beautiful Quotes About Libraries.

I like the Jorge Luis Borges quote best: "I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library."

… The Marriage of Celluloid and Ink: Oscar nominations: Many films came from the page (+video).

… Speaking of movies: Zero Dollar Movies — watch movies online for free.

… Language, Truth, and Literature: A Defense of Literary Humanism.

The "world is the transcendental creation of language.  . . . composed of entities which are in some sense meanings."

This must in some way hold true for anyone who assents to the proposition that a Creator is speaking the world into being, by means of a single Word that took on flesh in order to effect a fundamental adjustment in the nature of reality.