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On the Shelf

August 3, 2011 | by

 

A cultural news roundup.

  • Facebook has acquired Push Pop Press, a start-up that converts books into iPad- and iPhone-friendly formats.
  • “Until a few years ago, hardly a day would go by in the summer without the mailman bringing a postcard from a vacationing friend or acquaintance. Nowadays, you’re bound to get an email enclosing a photograph, or, if your grandchildren are the ones doing the traveling, a brief message telling you that their flight has been delayed or that they have arrived.”
  • Vote for the top one hundred science-fiction and fantasy titles.
  • Anyone for retro cocktails?
  • Joanna Lumley is raising funds to convert the home that helped inspire Peter Pan into a children’s literature center.
  • In praise of small-town papers.
  • Remembering Elizabeth Mackintosh—aka Josephine Tey, aka Gordon Daviot.
  • Meet the new Spider-Man: Brooklynite Miles Morales.
  • The New Yorker conquers the iPad.
  • A guide to literary Edinburgh.
  • #undatable—the literary characters you really wouldn’t want to date.
  • Please judge these Virago Modern Classics by their gorgeous covers!

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