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- Morrissey’s Intimate Relationship With Another Man Reportedly Removed From U.S. ‘Autobiography’: Curtis M. Wong on The Huffington Post covers what may be a rather surprising choice of editing. Because apparently the most controversial thing about Morrissey is intimate relations with other men, and not all the constant songs about the National Front.
Former Smiths frontman Morrissey made headlines earlier this year when he revealed an intimate relationship with another man in his new memoir, Autobiography. But U.S.-based fans of the singer may not get to read all about it after all.
As SPIN reports via WENN, the U.S. edition of Autobiography downplays details of Morrissey’s relationship with Jake Owen Walters. Interestingly, Walters’ name has reportedly been entirely removed from a story about a night out with Chrissie Hynde, lead singer of The Pretenders.
- British Language Is Only Getting Posher: Speaking of English for the English, Victoria Turk at Motherboard tells us how the most proper of “Southern” English accents is gradually taking over other parts of the island. Personally, my favorite poor attempt at an English accent is my Liverpudlian (“Scouse”).
But the survey also suggests that this North-South divide is starting to close a bit, at least on that particular pronunciation front. Phys.org quoted linguist Laurel MacKenzie as saying that the northern way of rhyming the words “cut” and “put” is in fact how they were pronounced centuries ago. “Speakers in the South of England moved away from this pronunciation in the 1500s, but their way of saying these words didn’t make it to the North,” she said. “However, we’ve compared our maps to those put together a few decades ago, and it looks like the Southern pronunciation is slowly creeping northward.”
- Six Scientist Myths That Books and Movies Love To Perpetuate: Patty Jansen at Amazing Stories gives a good rundown of those myths, as well as a good description of what a real live scientist might be like.
There tends to be some mystique attached to the image of the scientist in fiction. The scientist is mostly a tool, an antagonist, a source of information or a vehicle through which we learn things. Having worked as scientist, I find the portrayal of scientists in fiction amusing, because even many of the more realistic works perpetuate scientist myths that are just that, myths.
News
- A.V. Club: Newswire: Works of Franz Kafka to metamorphose into indie video game
- Cory Doctorow (Boing Boing) with Department of Labor seeks “Books That Shaped Work in America”
- Kim Ukura (BOOK RIOT) with Amazon’s Drone Announcement Reveals Coming Book War
- Curtis M. Wong (Books on HuffingtonPost.com) with Morrissey’s Intimate Relationship With Another Man Reportedly Removed From U.S. ‘Autobiography’
- Nina Bahadur (Books on HuffingtonPost.com) with Newspaper Opinion Columnists Are Mostly Older Men
- Elysabeth Alfano (Books on HuffingtonPost.com) with The Chicago Literary Hall of Fame Honors Our Literary Giants
- Victoria Turk (Motherboard) with British Language Is Only Getting Posher
Ideas
- Patty Jansen (Amazing Stories) with Six Scientist Myths That Books and Movies Love To Perpetuate
- Cory Doctorow (Boing Boing) with Rewriting sensationalist headlines for mathematical correctness
- Greg Zimmerman (BOOK RIOT) with In Defense of Liking Books
- Olivia Katrandjian (Books on HuffingtonPost.com) with To Spy in Lisbon
- Stacey Bartlett (Bookseller blogs) with Balanced reviews?
- Joe Berkowitz (Co.Create) with Infographic: See Just How Popular The Most Popular Books Ever Written Are
- The Passive Voice: 25 Fabulously Cranky Mark Twain Quotes
- Jeremy Sheeler (Thought Catalog) with 25 Quotes From Rousseau, The Forgotten Genius Who Created The Modern World
- Najwah Essop (Thought Catalog) with 85 Jack Kerouac Quotes For The Traveler Inside You
- John Scalzi (Whatever) with Print/Digital, Part the Whatevereth
- Joshua David Stein (Wired) with An Obituary for the Letter E
Interesting Books
- Rita Meade (BOOK RIOT) with What Do Kids Want to Read? (A Scientific Analysis)
- Madeleine Crum (Books on HuffingtonPost.com) with Crazy Facts You Didn’t Know About Comic Book Superheroes, Visualized [Infographic]
- Jessica Goodman (Books on HuffingtonPost.com) with Saved By The Bell’ Book Left Dustin Diamond With Major Regrets
- John B. Stimpson (Books on HuffingtonPost.com) with Taking Back The Pen Is a Dawn of Hope for Detroit
- Vicki Cobb (Books on HuffingtonPost.com) with What’s in It for Me? A Book for Whatever Interests You
- Jules Sherred (Julia Sherred’s Geeky Pleasures) with Watch the Hollow City Book Trailer [Video]
- Kenny Hoeschen (MightyMega) with The Book of New Zealand: World’s Largest Pop-Up Book
- Gabe Habash (Publishers Weekly) with The Novel That Created Japan’s Infamous Suicide Forest
- Joelle (The Book Case) with Best Books of 2013: #13, ‘The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.’
- The Teaching Box: Essential books for soon-to-be teenagers
- Maggie Lange (Vulture) with Lena Dunham Interviews Judy Blume About Horse Books, Girl Things
- Rebecca Horne (Wired) with 50 Years of Gas Station Photos Pump Out Premium Americana
- Noah Berlatsky (Wired) with Forget Winning the Hunger Games — One of the Best YA Series Is a Story of Failure
Libraries
- James W. P. Campbell & Will Pryce (The Atlantic) with The Evolution of the College Library