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Fake Blake, Back Covers, and Other News
By
Sadie Stein
June 24, 2013
On the Shelf
So what’s with all the
women’s backs
on book covers?
“Could I have chosen my own genius and condition, I would have made myself a great poet,” said John Quincy Adams.
Judge for yourself
.
A school librarian has
discovered
that a poem called “Two Sunflowers Move into the Yellow Room”—attributed to Blake and included on many a school reading list—was in fact written in the United States in the 1980s.
Following some
extremely
(and legally) questionable advice on “getting awesome with women,” Kickstarter has
banned
all seduction guides.
This week’s Bookriot
Sunday Diversion
—guessing a book title based on its Library of Congress catalog subjects—is, in our humble opinion, nearly impossible.
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