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Close Reading, and Other News
By
Sadie Stein
April 19, 2013
On the Shelf
A
sly French literacy campaign
wins international plaudits. (Look again: that’s it right there!)
Writers mobilize to
save Venice’s bookshops
.
Sadly, Portland’s
Murder by the Book
is meeting an unkinder fate.
“When she went to New York [from Boston], she wasn’t thinking about the work she was going to do—she was thinking about the clothes she was going to wear.”
Sylvia Plath
’s month at
Mademoiselle
, an experience that would figure in
The Bell Jar
.
Well, this was clearly never going to bother anyone: “
10 Talented Female Authors I Wouldn’t Kick Out of Bed for Writing About Crackers
.” (He has a type.)
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