Who Actually Cracked Linear B, the Ancient Code of the Mysterious Knossos Labyrinth? Jane Clementi reveals why she nearly killed herself after her son Tyler's suicide and what she wants for his webcam persecutor. For five years, Jane Clementi has kept her son Tyler’s clothing and possessions intact in his small bedroom in the family’s home in Ridgewood, New Jersey. It is a medium-sized, detached house on a quiet suburban street, its sidewalks lined with trees shedding their brown and amber autumn leaves. Tyler's clothes are in his closet, where a sports cap also hangs. His upper-level bunk bed still has his black-and-white comforter on it (although, Jane smiles, it is freshly laundered; a house guest has slept in here).
Beneath the bunk is the white chair that Tyler liked to sit and read in. The black-and-white print he loved of a forest is still on the wall above his desk. Ravi boasted of his actions on social media, with goading comments—which Clementi saw—aimed at encouraging people to watch Clementi. “Those are Tyler’s ashes. How is it sitting with Tyler every day? American English Has Become Way More Emotional Than British English. If you pick up a British book, a few cultural differences might easily differentiate it from a member of the American canon -- a penchant for spelling words with an extra "u," an unfamiliar slang word...and perhaps the literary equivalent of a stiff upper lip. According to new research, over the last half a century, American writing has shown a significant uptick in emotional words compared books written by our friends across the pond. A study published in PLOS ONE this week examined books from the last century in Google's Ngram Viewer, a database that visualizes the frequency of certain keywords in more than 5 million tomes, and found that since the mid-century, American and British word usage has diverged.
Tracing the usage of words that convey six moods (joy, surprise, anger, sadness, fear, disgust), the authors found that in general, words that indicate mood have decreased over time -- except fear, a mood that has been enjoying a resurgence since the 1970s. [via Nature] The True-Life Horror that Inspired Moby-Dick | Past Imperfect. HOW TO: Self Publish Your Book with Amazon's CreateSpace. Jane Austen to be face of the Bank of England £10 note. 24 July 2013Last updated at 13:05 ET People from Jane Austen's hometown of Alton give their views on the note Author Jane Austen is to feature on the next £10 note, the Bank of England says, avoiding a long-term absence of women represented on banknotes. The Pride and Prejudice author will be the next face of the note, replacing Charles Darwin, probably in 2017.
Chancellor George Osborne tweeted the move showed "sense and sensibility". In April, the Bank prompted a high-profile campaign against the prospect of having no female characters, besides the Queen, on the UK's currency. It had announced that Sir Winston Churchill would be put on the £5 note from 2016, replacing social reformer Elizabeth Fry. The latest announcement means that women could be absent from newly issued banknotes for up to a year, although the Elizabeth Fry £5 note will still be in circulation. 'In the wings' Banknotes are regularly redesigned, in order to maintain security and prevent forgeries. Banknotes around the world. Masks - Poem. » 17 Brilliant Short Novels You Can Read in a Sitting. This week author Ian McEwan expressed his love of short novels, saying “very few [long] novels earn their length.” Certainly it seems like a novel has to be a minimum of 500 pages to win a major literary award these days, and many genre novels have ballooned to absurd sizes.
I love a good tome, but like McEwan many of my favorite novels are sharpened little gems. It’s immensely satisfying to finish a book in a single day, so in the spirit of celebrating quick reads here are some of my favorite short novels. I’ve tried to avoid the most obvious titles that are regularly assigned in school (The Stranger, Heart of Darkness, Mrs Dalloway, Of Mice and Men, Frankenstein, The Crying of Lot 49, etc.).
Hopefully you’ll find some titles here you haven’t read before. By Night in Chile by Roberto Bolaño Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth Hardwick A lyrical combination of memoir, fiction, hopes, dreams, and musings, Hardwick’s novel is as undefinable as it is brilliant. Child of God by Cormac McCarthy.