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SHAUN SMITH'S SUNDAY SUNDRIES
Submitted by ssmith on October 17, 2010 - 12:29am
A WEEKLY ROUNDUP OF INTERNET CURIOSITIES FROM THE BOOK WORLD
So smart, they're stupid (the parents, I mean)
The NYTs recently had an article about parents (in the US) who are denying their kids picture books and forcing them to move to early readers in order to gain a leg up. Pathetic. I particularly like the quote from bookseller Dara La Porte: "It’s a terrible pressure parents are feeling — that somehow, I shouldn’t let my child have this picture book because she won’t get into Harvard.”
"I would rather be on the dole than work for a paper I was ashamed of."
A brilliant cover letter written by Hunter S. Thompson looking for work at the Vancouver Sun.
Ink on paper #1
JK Rowling's handwritten spread sheet for the plot of one of her books (I know not which).
Ink on paper #2
Ted Hughes' drafts of "a previously unseen poem" about the night Sylvia Plath died.
Ink on paper #3
Draft text and sketches of an unpublished Dr Seuss book about sports.
Let them read cake
Yes, I said read cake (or cakes, actually).
Bad sex please, we're British
It's that time of the year again, time for the Literary Review's Bad Sex Award. And the nominees are...
