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Parsing Middle Earth Contract, and Other News
By
Sadie Stein
January 22, 2013
On the Shelf
Listen to contemporary masters such as Charles Baxter and Siri Hustvedt
read ten Sherwood Anderson stories
.
“Most of the topography turns out to be relatively straightforward. The Ministry of Truth, where Winston Smith sits falsifying back-numbers of the
Times
, is the University of London’s Senate House building in Malet Street. Big Brother’s statue in Trafalgar Square, now rechristened ‘Victory Square,’ adorns the plinth previously reserved for Nelson, while the waxworks museum on the square’s eastern side, where visitors queue to inspect tableaux of military atrocities, is the Church of St Martin-in-the-Fields put to sinister propagandist use.”
Mapping
1984
.
“So far the dwarves haven’t committed any unsalvageable drafting errors or done anything that might jeopardize the validity of the contract.” A lawyer
examines
the dwarves’ contract from
The Hobbit
.
“Write drunk,” and other (questionable?)
advice from famous writers
.
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