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Scandals, Contests, and Noms de Guerre
By
Sadie Stein
April 10, 2012
On the Shelf
RIP
Christine Brooke-Rose
, an experimental novelist who has died at eighty-nine. Quoth the
New York Times
, she had “the ardor of a philologist, the fingers of a prestidigitator and the appetite of a lexivore, resulting in novels that exhilarated many critics and enervated others.”
The ALA’s list of 2011’s most-challenged books
includes
To Kill a Mockingbird
,
The Hunger Games
, and
My Mom’s Having a Baby! A Kid’s Month-by-Month Guide to Pregnancy
, by Dori Hillestad Butler.
Amazing movie-title stills
.
England’s poet laureate takes on
the Pendle Witches
. “This was a grisly affair, even by the debased standards of the day, with two of the women hanged at Lancaster castle aged over eighty and blind, another probably driven mad by a disfigured face with one eye lower than the other, and all ten convicted largely on the evidence of a nine-year-old child.”
You surely know O. Henry’s real name, and the pen names of the Brontes … but there are some real surprises on this
list of authorial noms de guerre
!
At the New York Public Library,
Thoreau goes digital
.
Ninety-six-year-old
Herman Wouk’s latest novel
,
The Lawgiver
, chronicles the making of a movie about Moses via “letters, memos, emails, journals, news articles, recorded talk, tweets, Skype transcripts, and text messages.”
A
literary tattoo showdown
.
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
contest
rewards the winner, appropriately, with classic pulp.
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