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Jane Austen Unmentionables, and Other News
By
Sadie Stein
August 5, 2013
On the Shelf
Sherman Alexie’s National Book Award–winning
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
has
been pulled
from the PS 114 sixth-grade reading list based on the following: “And if God hadn’t wanted us to masturbate, then God wouldn’t have given us thumbs. So I thank God for my thumbs.”
Speaking of the National Book Awards:
the
gotcha!
stunt is as old as time
. In the 1970s, a disgruntled writer submitted the manuscript of Jerzy Kosiński’s award-winning
Steps
(sans famous author name) to publishers and, yep, it was rejected.
Did Shakespeare
really invent
the concept of
zero
?
“Nestling in the middle of my Jane Austen goody bag is a black lace thong.”
A visit
to the JASNA convention, the Comic Con of Janeites.
And
a list of well-read TV characters
begins with the dog Wishbone, from
Wishbone
. Happy Monday!
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