Literary Put-downs,Jessica Drake in Scandalous Sex (2004) full movie Venetian Bookshops

By Sadie Stein August 20, 2012

On the Shelf

“It’s a bookshop right on the canal that floods every year, so the eccentric, stray-cat-adopting owner keeps his books in boats, bathtubs and a disused gondola to protect them.” A visit to Venice’s Libreria Acqua Alta.

The fifty best literary put-downs.

“The original Palatino was based on humanist typefaces from the Italian Renaissance, and was named after sixteenth-century Italian calligraphy master Giambattista Palatino.” A history of the most popular fonts used in design.

And Then His Hands Went Below the Table: cheating, lying, and disgrace at the National Scrabble Championships.

“Panzer-man, panzer-man, O You— / Not God but a swastika.” According to FBI Files, Sylvia Plath’s father, Otto, may indeed have had Nazi sympathies.

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