Book News: Wanda Coleman's Passing, Tom Wolfe's Papers: The New Yorker Los Angeles's "unofficial poet laureate," Wanda Coleman, has died at the age of sixty-seven. St. Mark's Bookshop will hold a fundraiser next month to help sponsor its move to a cheaper location in the East Village. Tom Wolfe has sold his papers to the New York Public Library for $2.15 million. The hundred and ninety boxes of material includes research, interviews, and outlines related to his novels and journalism, and more than ten thousand letters from the likes of Hunter S. Thompson, Gay Talese, and Wolfe's tailor. I'm late because YouTube. You're reading this because procrastination. Megan Garber on how linguists are recognizing new usage of the word "because." Laura Miller on the enduring pleasures of the "long, long" novel. For the Times Book Review, John Schwartz on his love of listening to "Infinite Jest," "Cloud Atlas," and other complex works of literary fiction on audiobook. Maria Popova's list of the best biographies, memoirs, and history books of 2013.