Flavorwire has outdone itself with
this slideshow of authors’ wedding pictures. (Yup: that’s Hemingway, with Hadley.)
R.I.P. Nook, we hardly knew ya. (Which is, I suppose, the problem.)
Reports of
Leonard Cohen’s death, on the other hand, are greatly exaggerated.
Beginning tomorrow, the Royal Shakespeare Company will begin
tweeting out playwright Mark Ravenhill’s version of
Candide. If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?
Jane Austen may (or may not) replace Charles Darwin on the
£10 note. She is, says Bank of England governor Sir Mervyn King, “quietly waiting in the wings,” presumably for a spectacular,
42nd Street-style star turn that delights Creationists the world over!