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Darling, Come Back, and Other News
By
Dan Piepenbring
February 14, 2014
On the Shelf
Photo: Jnlin, via Wikimedia Commons
In Taiwan, a
commemorative Valentine’s Day train ticket
sold out in less than an hour: it takes you from “Dalin (大林, pronounced similarly to ‘darling’ in English) station in Chiayi County to Gueilai (歸來, literally: ‘come back’).” A journey any of us should be willing to make after we’ve behaved badly. It’s
love on a real train
.
Voltaire in love
: “She understands Newton, she despises superstition and in short she makes me happy.”
But we can count on literature to remind us that things are not always so sweet. Here are
the ten unhappiest marriages in fiction
.
Can atrocity be the subject matter of poetry
? Our poetry editor, Robyn Creswell, on Carolyn Forché’s new anthology.
“I also like to catch dangling modifiers, because we all miss those … I have had authors who say that dangling modifiers are part of their style and don’t want to change them.” An interview with
a crackerjack copyeditor
.
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