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The Sixty-Nine-Years-Overdue Library Book, and Other News
By
Sadie Stein
March 13, 2013
On the Shelf
“An Estonian man has
returned a library book sixty-nine years late
, partly blaming a World War II aerial bombing that damaged the library for the late return.” They bought this excuse; no fine was levied.
“Maurice, aged seven, drew the illustrations for ‘They Were Inseparable,’ and his brother Jack, who was twelve, composed the text. The book was dedicated to their sixteen-year-old sister with whom they were both infatuated.”
Avi Steinberg
on the Sendak family.
Is this
the best palindrome of the year
? (Were there others?)
The Bloomsbury guide
to surviving London disasters.
The nominees for the
Women’s Prize for Fiction
(née Orange Prize) have been announced.
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