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On the Shelf
By
Sadie Stein
September 7, 2011
Bulletin
Mark Twain.
A study finds that
reading fiction may improve empathy
.
Carol Ann Duffy: “
Poems are a form of texting
.”
Language fail
.
The Man-Booker shortlist
is announced. Herewith, a
cheat sheet
.
Philip Schultz: “[My tutor] worked with me to try to teach me how to read, without any success at all. And one day out of frustration asked me what I thought I was going to do in life if I couldn’t read. And surprising both of us, I said I wanted to be a
writer
. And he laughed.”
Mark Twain’s
charming love letter
.
On
bookshelf aesthetics
.
Feral
is having a moment.
A new
Wuthering Heights
adaptation is “
caked in grime and damp with saliva.
” Oh, and “salted with profanity.”
Ten years on,
reading 9/11
.
Profanisaurus
? There’s an app for that.
George R. R. Martin
, fanboy.
Haunting images of America’s
asylums
.
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