Posts Tagged ‘Harry Potter’
January 29, 2013 | by Sadie Stein
If you’re not Pride and Prejudiced out, here’s a playlist. (We think it should end with “Chapel of Love,” but that’s a matter of opinion.)
Barnes & Noble will be downsizing, closing twenty stores a year for the next ten years. (Did you know they had that many stores?)
In related news, the Globe and Mail is, depressingly, slashing its books section. That’s right: “Slashing.”
At least the word puberty is no longer censored! Judy Blume on the bad times.
It would seem that Harry Potter, like the Bible, can be used to support any argument.
TAGS Barnes & Noble, Globe and Mail, Harry Potter, Judy Blume, Pride and Prejudice
August 30, 2012 | by Sadie Stein
Ten books that will never be Penguin classics (except in this mock-up).
The John Updike Society has purchased the author’s childhood home, with an eye to creating a museum.
Politicians’ favorite books.
A new candidate for Shakespeare’s mysterious “dark lady” has emerged: a prostitute called “Lucy Negro,” an “arrant whore and a bawde” who worked in Clerkenwell.
A dress made of Harry Potter. Naturally.
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TAGS Harry Potter, John Updike, news, On the Shelf, roundup, Shakespeare
August 2, 2012 | by Sadie Stein
A list of some of Gore Vidal’s best bons mots.
J. K. Rowling will have a cameo in the official new Harry Potter book club.
The Beinecke has acquired a wealth of Ezra Pound manuscripts.
The economics of freelancing.
(It's easier if you live in one of these writer-friendly cities!)
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TAGS Beinecke Library, Ezra Pound, Gore Vidal, Harry Potter, J. K. Rowling, news, On the Shelf, roundup
July 31, 2012 | by Sadie Stein
Match your bikini to your beach read.
A slide show of situationist artist Robert Montgomery’s London street poetry.
The New Yorker runs unpublished fiction by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
A visit to Deep Valley.
A redditor posts every Harry Potter illustration in a single image.
“To have undertaken the thankless task of listing all the books I can recall ever reading gives me extreme pleasure and satisfaction. I know of no author who has been mad enough to attempt this. Perhaps my list will give rise to more confusion—but its purpose is not that. Those who know how to read a man know how to read his books.” Henry Miller on his favorite books.
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TAGS bikini, Deep Valley, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Harry Potter, Henry Miller, Maud Hart Lovelace, Mitali Perkins, news, On the Shelf, roundup, The New Yorker
May 23, 2012 | by Sadie Stein
Bad for owls
TAGS Andrew Ladd, book design, book reviews, Cannes, cooking, Dial-a-poem, Gregory J. Markopoulos, Harry Potter, poetry, The Palme d'Or, William Hazlitt
