Round-Up: Beverly Cleary, a Book Heist, and Partisan Reading Preferences
From Beverly Cleary’s 101st birthday to the connection between politics and reading preferences, here’s the latest literary news.
Beverly Cleary
Donde Esta el Bano?: Bathrooms in Literature
Whenever I travel, I think back to “The History of the World through Toilets.” This is the title of a series of notes for an epic poem jotted down by Isodora Wing, the narrator of Erica Jong’s 1973 novel Fear of Flying. “British,” it begins: British toilet paper. A way of life. Coated. Refusing to…