All Your Favorite Shipwrecks in One Convenient Place, and Other News

Johan Christian Dahl, Shipwreck on the Norwegian Coast (detail), 1831.

If you woke up this morning and wondered, Will today finally be the day that the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS) puts together an interactive map of all known shipwrecks that have occurred off the treacherous Scottish coastline?, congratulations: the answer is yes.
Shut up the surly teenager in your life—remind him of how viciously teens were treated in medieval Europe. “A lord’s huntsman is advised to choose a boy servant as young as seven or eight: one who is physically active and keen sighted. This boy should be beaten until he had a proper dread of failing to carry out his master’s orders.”
Vis-à-vis cruelty: in Britain, it’s now illegal to send books to prisoners. Authors are protesting.
Back in the day, Orson Welles performed ten Shakespeare plays on the radio. You can listen to them.
“Not since the heyday of Dickens, Dumas, and Henry James has serialized fiction been this big.” Behind Wattpad, a new storytelling app.
What if classic writers wrote erotica? (Hats off to Camus’ Sutra, which is especially inspired.)

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