Curiosities
September 8, 2010
Booker Prize Shortlist Odds 0
by C. Max Magee
With the Booker Prize shortlist out, the bookies have updated the odds. Tom McCarthy’s C emerges as the new favorite and Peter Carey and Andrea Levy are surprising long shots.
September 7, 2010
Best Magazine Covers 0
by C. Max Magee
Amazon invites you to vote for the best magazine covers of the year. (via Kottke)
September 7, 2010
D.H. Lawrence on Trial 0
by Ujala Sehgal
Ben Yagoda provides a step-by-step recount of the 1959 British obscenity case over Lady Chatterley’s Lover, and every noted literary name from Graham Greene to Evelyn Waugh to T. S. Eliot who weighed in: “The whole thing was very well stage-managed with a splendid cast.”
September 7, 2010
Death by Bookcase 0
by Ujala Sehgal
At the Telegraph, Sir Tom Stoppard briefly explains his desire to be killed by a falling bookcase.
September 7, 2010
In Response to Rejections 0
by Ujala Sehgal
At the Electric Literature blog, Judson Merrill responds to his many rejection letters: “If you were that excited about my submission, I’m concerned you may have read it with unfair expectations… I’ve reattached my submission under the new title ‘Eight Pages of Tripe’…”
September 7, 2010
Ten Bloodiest Bedtime Stories 0
by Ujala Sehgal
For those of you who ask, like Jacob Lambert, whether picture books are leading our children astray, the Independent posts ten of the bloodiest bedtime stories.
