Omni Daily News

Coens move Portis to top of queue: The Coen brothers, who allegedly adapted The Odyssey as O Brother Where Art Thou? without having read the original, have rearranged the literary adaptations on their production schedule, putting a remake of True Grit, said to be closer to Charles Portis's original novel than the John Wayne Oscar vehicle, ahead of their long-rumored version of Michael Chabon's too-Coen-ish-to-be-true Yiddish Policemen's Union. Classic Variety-speak sidenote: "Pic will be their first period Oater." [Variety, via Shelf Awareness]

Best real-life literary adaptation: Thai fireman dresses up as Spider-Man to coax eight-year-old boy off a ledge. [BBC]

Down with self-centered ephemera!: Ur-blogger (and ex-Gawker editor) Choire Sicha reaches middle age, decides to make a document for posterity (i.e., a book), and "do this crazy thing that people used to and sometimes still do which is to write about actual other people!" [New York Observer]

Can you be a Cinderella with a Nobel Prize?: In the ToB, one more judge who was leery of Toni Morrison's A Mercy is won over, as John Hodgman sends it through to the semis over Hari Kunzru's also-great My Revolutions: "It is everything I worried it would be, and it is amazing." [The Morning News]

--Tom