Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Book News: Auden Journal, Kindle Coins - New Yorker (blog)

May 15, 2013

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Out magazine, Bret Easton Ellis critiques the media’s handling of the basketball player Jason Collins’s coming out, and what he dubs “The Gay Man the Magical Elf” syndrome.

The Brooklyn Public Library is creating an oral-history project to document Hurricane Sandy’s impact on Brooklyn residents.

“Such a beautiful evening and in an hour, they say, England will be at war.” A journal written by W. H. Auden in 1939 has been discovered and will be auctioned at Christie’s next month.

Amazon launches “Amazon Coins,” a virtual currency que Kindle owners can use to buy apps and games.

“Spelling-fight,” “spelling school,” “spelling match,” “trials in spelling,” “spelling combat,” “spelldown.” A brief history, and etymology, of the spelling bee.

“Do not ever use lighter fluid-it’s un-American. Amateurs, losers, idiots and use lighter fluid. If you’ve bought this book, you are inherently none of Those three things. “Twenty choice quotes from Guy Fieri’s new book” Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives: The Funky Finds in Flavortown. “

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