Bookanisto: A Books BlogInteresting and unusual news about books, writers and the written wordNorth Korean Propaganda Becomes a Bit More Realistic- December 9, 2004 Kim Jong Il's portraits have been disappearing around North Korea. This story talks about how North Korean written propaganda had made a subtle but unprecedented turn toward acknowledging hunger and other hardships in North Korea last year.http://bookanisto.typepad.com/bookanisto/2004/12/north_korean_pr.html Death of Richard Lancelyn Green in the New Yorker- December 9, 2004 The New Yorker takes a look at what happened to Sherlock Holmes scholar Richard Lancelyn Green who died suddenly while trying to prevent the auction of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's papers. Bookanisto has previously covered the Lancelyn Green affair and...http://bookanisto.typepad.com/bookanisto/2004/12/the_new_yorker_.html Jeanette Winterston Opens Deli- December 9, 2004 British writer, Jeanette Winterson known for her novels like Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit has opened a deli on the ground floor of her Spitalfields, London home prompting any number of produce-related puns.http://bookanisto.typepad.com/bookanisto/2004/12/jeanette_winter.html Great Samuel Johnson Collection at Harvard- December 9, 2004 Harvard's Houghton Library now houses the Donald and Mary Hyde Collection of Dr. Samuel Johnson, the "world's best collection of documents relating to the life and work of Samuel Johnson." There is a public display on the second floor of...http://bookanisto.typepad.com/bookanisto/2004/12/great_samuel_jo.html |