By Kelly Faircloth 10/18/12 3:29pm

The Future of the Ebook

Awaiting the future of fiction. (Photo: Plympton, via Instagram)

O Pioneers! Twitter Launches a Virtual Fiction Festival to Help Storytellers Get Experimental

Still more evidence that Twitter means business about its positioning as a media brand: In an event today at the New York Public Library, head of editorial programming Andrew Fitzgeraldannounced a Twitter Fiction Festival, a wholly virtual event that’ll run November 28 to December 2.

The goal, according to Mr. Fitzgerald, is to “push the outward bounds of what people thing of when they think of content on Twitter.” Read More

By Adrianne Jeffries 5/22/12 2:59pm

Visiting Dignitaries

Björk at the New York Public Library. (Photo: Twitter.com/mgiraldo)

In Which We Resist Asking Björk to Play Scrabble

Betabeat couldn’t stop staring at Björk’s belly button. The singer was wearing a coral houndstooth suit over a black lace bra, with pumpkin pants, purple tights and a necklace made of thin coral pieces that looked like crab legs. She was clutching a to-go cup of hot tea as we sat in the Trustees room of the New York Public Library with two other journalists, a radio reporter and a Daily News intern, in an awkward mini-press conference. Björk wore a bulbous multi-colored wig pinned with bobby pins into a twisty spiral.

We told her we liked her speech at the Webby Awards: “A-E-I-O-U.” She laughed. “Sound,” she said.

We resisted the urge to hug her. Read More