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Jane Austen<\/p><\/div>\n

A cultural news roundup.<\/em><\/p>\n

  • An unfinished Jane Austen novel<\/a> sells at auction for $1.6 million. <\/li>\n
  • The end of Borders<\/a>. <\/li>\n
  • \u201cSigmund Freud, cokehead.<\/a>\u201d<\/li>\n
  • California schoolbooks add the LGBT community.<\/a> <\/li>\n
  • So do Archie comics<\/a>. <\/li>\n
  • The rock memoir is huge: can the Thin White Duke (or for that matter Ziggy Stardust) be far behind? Bowie<\/a> becomes publishers\u2019 \u201ctop target.\u201d<\/li>\n
  • \u201cWe insist that students touch and smell and shine light through items, and investigate them to understand the book in history, and understand the book as history.<\/a>\u201d<\/li>\n
  • Entering the publishing world in the digital age.<\/a> <\/li>\n
  • Longshot Magazine<\/em> is back<\/a>. <\/li>\n
  • A Harry Potter<\/em> plagiarism<\/a> case bites the dust. <\/li>\n
  • Frederick Seidel on a time before air-conditioning<\/a>. <\/li>\n
  • A brief history of Pendleton<\/a>. <\/li>\n
  • Alan Bennett<\/a>: \u201cI have always been happy in libraries, though without ever being entirely at ease there.\u201d<\/li>\n
  • How to undress a Victorian lady<\/a>. <\/li>\n
  • If the Paradise Lost<\/em> adaptation<\/a> is hell for Milton lovers, call Bradley Cooper the devil. <\/li>\n
  • The NewsCorp scandal<\/a>: (almost) stranger than fiction.<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    A cultural news roundup. An unfinished Jane Austen novel sells at auction for $1.6 million. The end of Borders. \u201cSigmund Freud, cokehead.\u201d California schoolbooks add the LGBT community. So do Archie comics. The rock memoir is huge: can the Thin White Duke (or for that matter Ziggy Stardust) be far behind? Bowie becomes publishers\u2019 \u201ctop […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":178,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2559],"tags":[2913,2912,2189,2007,2911,1309,300,2914,492],"class_list":["post-18487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bulletin","tag-alan-bennett","tag-archie","tag-borders","tag-bradley-cooper","tag-david-bowie","tag-harry-potter","tag-jane-austen","tag-paradise-lost","tag-sigmund-freud"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nOn the Shelf by Sadie Stein<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"July 20, 2011 \u2013 A cultural news roundup. An unfinished Jane Austen novel sells at auction for $1.6 million. 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