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Dahl, Maps,
The Royal Tenenbaums
By
Sadie Stein
August 14, 2012
On the Shelf
The new
Vogue
features contemporary authors as members of
Edith Wharton’s circle
and was shot at the Mount. Look for Jeffrey Eugenides, Jonathan Safran Foer, and Junot Díaz as Henry James, Morton Fullerton, and Walter Van Rensselaer Berry. (Wharton herself is played by model Natalia Vodianova.)
Essential cartography books
.
Bookshelf of the day:
a literary staircase
.
The
hundred best-selling British books of all time
. (The usual suspects, plus
Eats, Shoots and Leaves
.)
The books from
The Royal Tenenbaums
,
actualized
.
“For material things, we were fortunate, but it was not a happy beginning to my life.”
Tessa Dahl
talks about the difficulties of growing up with her famous father. Perhaps sensationalism is no shock in
The Daily Mail
, but we defy you not to be taken aback by Roald’s penchant for home-medicating his children.
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