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America in Love, and Other News
By
Sadie Stein
February 15, 2013
On the Shelf
Amazon.com has assigned
a love story to every state
. As a New Yorker, I find myself ambivalent about the choice of
The Age of Innocence
. Although Arkansas, arguably, has more of a bone to pick.
“Wife wanted: intelligent, beautiful, 18 to 25, broad-minded, sensitive, affectionate. For accomplished artist and exciting life. NYR box 1432.” On America’s
most erudite personals
. (Yes, that was the first.)
Happy one hundred
, Harvard University Press.
Comic book vendors around the nation are
boycotting
D. C. Comics following the announcement that the company has asked Orson Scott Card to write part of an upcoming
Superman
. Card is an outspoken anti-gay advocate.
Meanwhile, a plan to erect a plaque to Enid Blyton in her home town is tearing
Beaconsfield, Bucks asunder
: some claim it would be wrong to celebrate an authors whose work is now deemed racist and sexist.
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