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On the Shelf
By
Sadie Stein
August 17, 2011
Bulletin
A cultural news roundup.
Just Kids
gets the big-screen treatment.
So does
Tolkien
.
Kathryn Stockett
triumphs in court (as well as at the movies).
Need an alternative to
The Help
?
Try Welty
.
“As a kid I would get my parents to drop me off at
my local library
on their way to work during the summer holidays and I would walk home at night. For several years I read the children’s library until I finished the children’s library. Then I moved into the adult library and slowly worked my way through them. With the kids’ library I did it alphabetically but I discovered I couldn’t do that with the adult one because there were too many big boring books to read, so I did it by interesting covers.”
A tribute to
Wendy Wasserstein
.
Amazon
moves in on publishing with first “major” deal.
The next best thing to a vacation?
Reading about a vacation
.
The movies may be complete, and the books long finished, but Harry Potter fans need not despair:
Pottermore launches in October
.
The case for spoilers!
Who’s your favorite
deliciously awful fictional character
?
Bookstores clear a “
Rick Perry
” section.
“Ah ha! I’ve finally put my finger on a concrete reason for my lingering, irrational, doubtless soon-to-be-jettisoned
prejudice against e-readers
.”
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