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  • RIP Christine Brooke-Rose<\/a>, an experimental novelist who has died at eighty-nine. Quoth the New York Times<\/em>, she had “the ardor of a philologist, the fingers of a prestidigitator and the appetite of a lexivore, resulting in novels that exhilarated many critics and enervated others.”\n
  • The ALA\u2019s list of 2011\u2019s most-challenged books <\/a>includes To Kill a Mockingbird<\/em>, The Hunger Games<\/em>, and My Mom\u2019s Having a Baby! A Kid\u2019s Month-by-Month Guide to Pregnancy<\/em>, by Dori Hillestad Butler.\n
  • Amazing movie-title stills<\/a>.\n
  • England\u2019s poet laureate takes on the Pendle Witches<\/a>. \u201cThis was a grisly affair, even by the debased standards of the day, with two of the women hanged at Lancaster castle aged over eighty and blind, another probably driven mad by a disfigured face with one eye lower than the other, and all ten convicted largely on the evidence of a nine-year-old child.\u201d\n
  • You surely know O. Henry\u2019s real name, and the pen names of the Brontes \u2026 but there are some real surprises on this list of authorial noms de guerre<\/a>!\n
  • At the New York Public Library, Thoreau goes digital<\/a>.\n
  • Ninety-six-year-old Herman Wouk\u2019s latest novel<\/a>, The Lawgiver<\/em>, chronicles the making of a movie about Moses via \u201cletters, memos, emails, journals, news articles, recorded talk, tweets, Skype transcripts, and text messages.\u201d\n
  • A literary tattoo showdown<\/a>.\n
  • The Man from U.N.C.L.E.<\/em> contest<\/a> rewards the winner, appropriately, with classic pulp.
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