Lunchtime links.

Hunger games banned books week

  • Remember that Rebecca musical I mentioned? It's not happening: "It had been in limbo since the show’s major investor, a man named Paul Abrams who was expected to bring in $4.5 million, died from malaria in London in August. No evidence of Mr. Abrams’s existence or death has surfaced and been independently corroborated." (via Sharyn November's FB)
  • An informal challenge to Curtis Sittenfeld's Prep may have had an unintended result: the formation of a new book group.
  • Relatedly, the HuffPo has posted an infographic about the 10 most challenged titles of 2011.
  • And a public library in Texas has created some kickass Hunger Games posters for Banned Books Week. (Including the one on the right.)
  • Was the inspiration for Tom Sawyer a "heavy-drinking firefighter and local hero" that Mark Twain met in a steam room? This guy says yes. 
  • Halloween items at my Etsy shop! Woo!
  • Oh, dear. That's not sketchy or anything.
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