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Burning Books, Listening to
Just Kids
, Casting Fleming
By
Sadie Stein
May 22, 2012
On the Shelf
For those with Spotify,
all the songs mentioned in
Just Kids
, in playlist form
. (Perfect for a rainy day!)
Duncan Jones has signed on to direct
a biopic of Ian Fleming
, based on Andrew Lycett’s
The Man Behind James Bond
. Everyone knows the man himself okayed Sean Connery to play 007, but who should fill the enigmatic writer-spy’s shoes?
A letter from Edgar Allan Poe to Sarah Josepha Hale, author of the poem “Mary Had a Little Lamb,” has sold at auction for $164,000. In it,
Poe refuses an offer to publish in Hale’s magazine
, explaining, “To send you a crude or hastily written article would be injurious to me, and an insult to yourself—and I fear that I could, at present, do little more.”
William Peter Blatty, better known as the author of
The Exorcist
, is suing
Georgetown University
in church court, disputing his alma mater’s right to still call themselves Catholic given some of its secular policies.
“Frat boys burning textbooks to celebrate graduation burn down frat house.”
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