Scandal at the Oxford English Dictionary! Robert Burchfield’s efforts in the 70s and 80s to delete words from the dictionary based on their foreign origins have been uncovered.
“Swamp Fuschia”
A Mummy Love Story
The great singer-songwriter Josh Ritter is on tour with Scott Hutchison of Frightened Rabbit. In honor of that, here's puppet master Liam Hurley's video for Josh Ritter's beautiful ballad "The Curse," a song about a mummy falling in love with the archeologist who discovers him.
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Happy Birthday, W.C.W.
William Carlos Williams's birthday was this last week, and Adam Kirsch writes about the poet for New York Review of Books. Though he argues that "today it would be hard to find a reader of poetry who would not acknowledge William Carlos Williams as one of the major American modernists" Kirsch still has to face the question, "why is it, then, that almost fifty years after his death, the reputation of [Williams] still seems to be haunted by a ghost of uncertainty?"
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Not My Best Work
In the early eighties, when the writer James Lasdun was working in publishing, he rejected a book by a writer who turned out to be a pen name for Doris Lessing. The fallout? He couldn’t bring himself to read her work until this year. (Related: our own Mark O'Connell's interview with Lasdun about his latest book.)
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Obrigada, Senhora
Read a lot of Granta? Want to hang out with Brazilians? The magazine is hosting a number of events to celebrate its cool new collection.
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Serialized Storytelling
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Battle Royale
Publishers Weekly did some sleuthing and it turns out that it only takes 300 print copies sold per day to land the Amazon bestseller list - time to get cracking, everyone.
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Far be it for The Guardian to be guilty of trolling for pageviews with a manufactured scandal.