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A cultural news roundup.

• Want to know the books Whitey Bulger would have taken to the grave?
• Paper landscapes, a tsunami of pages—this is extreme editing.
• Be Kind to Books Club. Some propaganda never gets old.
• Self-promotion knows no boundaries.
• “You can’t turn Infinite Jestinto a two-hour play. You can’t put it on a conventional stage. And you can’t send your audience away without at least a small dose of pain.”
• A giant squid invades Paris in Fiona Apple’s new music video.
• R.I.P. Gitta Sereny.
• The conspiracy is alive: find a Thomas Pynchon “Trystero” near you.
• Twilightis not an acceptable nomination.
• Paging Jonathan Franzen. #OccupyGaddis begins now!
• Flannery O’Connor reads “A Good Man is Hard to Find” in a rare 1959 recording.
• What happens when you leave a group of boys around art? The sculptor Eva Rothschild finds out.