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On the Shelf
By
Sadie Stein
August 31, 2011
Bulletin
A cultural news roundup.
Novelist and poet
Susan Fromberg Schaeffer
has died at seventy-one.
Ruth Rendell
speaks out on health cuts.
Snape, the dark-horse winner of a
Harry Potter
popularity
contest. This is
controversial
.
What to read when you’re sick
.
P. G. Wodehouse: the movie
.
Javier Cercas:
“I respect music too much—if I write I write, if I listen I listen.”
Tweeting from
beyond the grave
?
Samples of
Obama’s summer reading
.
The most-wanted out-of-print title?
Madonna’s
Sex
.
The first
Kashmir Book Festival
has been canceled amid fears of violence.
She Loves You:
the Beatles and pronoun use
.
A. S. Byatt: “I am a profound pessimist both about life and about human relations and about politics and ecology.
Humans are inadequate and stupid creatures who sooner or later make a mess
, and those who are trying to do good do a lot more damage than those who are muddling along.”
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