The Real Hunger Games, and Other News

Presented without comment: The Jewish Hunger Games: Kvetching Fire . (One comment: yes, it is about Yom Kippur.)
Word is, the Man Booker may open its doors to Yank authors come 2014. Needless to say, this is controversial.
Electric Lit starts an… irreverent take on Eat, Pray, Love.
Marmee, Mme. Swann’s Way, and other great mothers of literature.
Marshall Berman, an author and scholar whom the New York Times calls “a lyrical defender of modernism,” has died at seventy-two.