Kevin Fitzpatrick from the Dorothy Parker Society is covering the trial of the century: Stuart Y. Silverstein vs. Penguin Putnam, Inc., a copyright snafu years in the making that’s going to take days to unravel in court. Here’s his excellent coverage of day one of what promises to be at least ten. For background, here’s my previous post on the same topic. Kevin also wrote a detailed explanation of the case on the Dorothy Parker site last year, newly updated.

And in his “Paper Cuts” blog on the Times website, Dwight Garner congratulates and briefly interviews the latest New Yorker caption contest winner, Joel Brouwer, who also happens to be a poet and contributor to the Book Review. Brouwer told Dwight (who’s edited me a few times):

I sent in a caption on a lark - first time! - and laughed when they called to say I was a finalist, but then was kind of weirdly embarrassed to win. I was particularly amused/suicidal to note that my winning caption came out the same week that Poetry magazine published a long poem of mine, and the e-mail congratulation ratio for the two achievements ran about 50 to 1.

There’s more, so read all about it! Joel, I hope you have some time to talk to our intern, John, about your many talents and preoccupations.