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Literary Put-downs, Venetian Bookshops
By
Sadie Stein
August 20, 2012
On the Shelf
“It’s a bookshop right on the canal that floods every year, so the eccentric, stray-cat-adopting owner keeps his books in boats, bathtubs and a disused gondola to protect them.”
A visit
to Venice’s
Libreria Acqua Alta
.
The fifty best literary put-downs
.
“The original Palatino was based on humanist typefaces from the Italian Renaissance, and was named after sixteenth-century Italian calligraphy master Giambattista Palatino.” A history of the
most popular fonts
used in design.
And Then His Hands Went Below the Table
: cheating, lying, and disgrace at the National Scrabble Championships.
“Panzer-man, panzer-man, O You— / Not God but a swastika.” According to FBI Files,
Sylvia Plath’s father, Otto
, may indeed have had Nazi sympathies.
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