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The Netherfield Ball, and Other News
By
Sadie Stein
January 18, 2013
On the Shelf
In honor of
Pride and Prejudice
’s two hundredth anniversary, the BBC is re-creating
the Netherfield Ball
at Chawton House, Hampshire. The unfortunately named
Pride and Prejudice: Having A Ball at Easter
, which will air on BBC 2, is for some reason ninety minutes long, and we would like an invitation.
The Bell Jar
, meanwhile, is a spring chicken at fifty.
Philip Roth
disagrees with most readers as to which of his novels are the best.
What is the obsession with ranking things? May we rephrase?
Here
are
a few
of America’s best bookstores.
If
Mr. Eliot
had to have a day job, why is it that writers and poets today are so cagey about what they do to pay the bills? Or, as someone at a Williamsburg party once put it, “What do you do—
not
for money?”
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