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On the Shelf

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Bulletin

Portrait of Roald Dahl, 1954, by Carl Van Vechten.

A cultural news roundup.

  • William Sleator, a well-loved author of young-adult science fiction and fantasy, has died at sixty-six.
  • “Of course, buzzwords come and go. But it’s striking that 9/11 and its aftereffects have left almost no traces in the language of everyday life.”
  • Walk a mile in J. K. Rowling’s boots.
  • “Rowling, who famously guards her privacy, is one of a number of prominent public figures expected to give evidence to Lord Justice Leveson’s judicial inquiry into phone hacking and media ethics and practices.”
  • In response to the BBC’s plans to cut short fiction, prominent authors embark on a tweetathon.
  • Not to be confused with the ambitious Sixty-Six Books Twitter project.
  • Chinua Achebe vs. 50 Cent.
  • A single Salinger sentence sells for $50,000.
  • The Amazon digital-book library marches on.
  • Happy ninety-fifth birthday, Roald Dahl.
  • A birthday appeal to save the late author’s writing hut is controversial.
  • The college experience, sans tuition.
  • Remembering comics author Del Connell.