Good evening literary fans. Here's what we read today that you should too.

How the Proust Questionnaire Went from Literary Curio to Prestige Personality Quiz (The New Yorker)
Data Mining Reveals the Six Basic Emotional Arcs of Storytelling (MIT Technology Review)
The Poetry of the War on Terror: "Interrogating the language of post-9/11 America" (Lit Hub)
Let Them Be Spoiled: An article on the common "spoiler alert" (The Paris Review)
Christopher Myers to Launch a New Imprint at Random House Children’s Books: On the children's book author and illustrator's new imprint Make Me a World. (GalleyCat)
Arthur Conan Doyle, the Spiritualist Behind the Rational Sherlock Holmes (The NY Times)
Samuel Beckett, the maestro of failure: An examination of Beckett's approach to short stories (The Guardian)

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