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		<title>Harry Potter Book with Author Notes Sold for $228K</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 00:31:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(LONDON) — For fans of the boy wizard, this could be the most coveted copy of all the &#8220;Harry Potter&#8221; books in the world. A first edition copy of &#8220;Harry Potter and the Philosopher&#8217;s Stone&#8221; that contains author J.K. Rowling&#8217;s notes and original illustrations fetched 150,000 pounds ($228,000) at a London auction on Tuesday. Sotheby&#8217;s said the work, offered as part of a charity book sale jointly organized with the English PEN writers&#8217; association, was sold to an anonymous bidder by telephone. Rowling peppered the book with many personal annotations, including editorial decisions, comments on the process of writing and a note on how she came to create the game of Quidditch. She also drew about two dozen illustrations in the copy, including a sleeping baby Harry on a door step and an Albus Dumbledore Chocolate Frog card. As part of the fundraising event, Rowling and dozens of other best-selling authors were asked to &#8220;scribble second thoughts, marginalia or drawings&#8221; on a first-edition copy of one of their books. A copy of Roald Dahl&#8217;s best-selling children&#8217;s book &#8220;Matilda&#8221; containing new drawings by illustrator Quentin Blake fetched 30,000 pounds ($45,500), while an annotated copy of Kazuo Ishiguro&#8217;s acclaimed novel &#8220;The Remains of the Day&#8221; was sold for 18,000 pounds ($27,300). Other participating authors in the charity sale included Ian McEwan, Seamus Heaney, Lionel Shriver and Yann Martel. In all, the sale raised a total of 439,200 pounds ($666,310). MORE: J.K. Rowling: More Harry Potter Possible<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=entertainment.time.com&#038;blog=24659518&#038;post=3541355&#038;subd=timeentertainment&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fiction&#8217;s Greatest: We Pick the 13 Most Memorable People Who Never Lived</title>
		<link>http://entertainment.time.com/2013/05/21/fictions-greatest-we-pick-the-13-most-memorable-people-who-never-lived/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 16:51:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TIME Staff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A superhero, an iconic toy, and an outlaw hero — they&#8217;re among the 13 fictional characters we rank among the all-time greats  <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=entertainment.time.com&#038;blog=24659518&#038;post=3540464&#038;subd=timeentertainment&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dan Brown: Now Taking Questions For the Da Vinci Code Author</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 20:47:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TIME Staff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mega-selling author Dan Brown is stopping by TIME Magazine early Monday morning to talk about his highly anticipated new novel, which goes on sale May 14. It is his fourth book to feature Harvard professor and symbologist Robert Langdon (played Tom Hanks in the Ron Howard-directed The Da Vinci Code and Angels  &#38; Demons). (Review: How Good Is Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol?) The book&#8217;s title — Inferno — was revealed to fans in January as part of an elaborate social media campaign.  The sure-to-be blockbuster will be released in 11 foreign-language editions (for which a team of translators labored under a CIA-level of security). (Read: The Top 10 Airplane Books) Details about the book’s plot are understandably scarce, but we’re hoping to get something out of him.  Leave your questions in the comments below or via Twitter—by the evening of Sunday, May 12—and we may just might get you an answer<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=entertainment.time.com&#038;blog=24659518&#038;post=3539753&#038;subd=timeentertainment&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MTV&#8217;s Original VJs: 32 Facts</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 15:23:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lily Rothman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In rock journalist Gavin Edwards&#8217; fascinating oral history VJ: The Unplugged Adventures of MTV&#8217;s First Wave, four of the music network&#8217;s original five &#8220;video jockeys&#8221;—Nina Blackwood, Mark Goodman, Alan Hunter, Martha Quinn and J.J. Jackson—talk about their experiences working at the fledgling venture. (J.J. Jackson passed away in 2004.) The four VJs sat down with TIME and shared the story behind the book&#8230;and a few tidbits that didn&#8217;t make it into the pages. Here are 32  factoids — one for every year of MTV&#8217;s existence — taken from the book and our conversations: MTV launched on Aug. 1, 1981. The top U.S. single at the time was Rick Springfield’s “Jessie’s Girl.” Alan Hunter was the first VJ to speak on the network. And the Buggles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star” was the first video the network played. Yes, sex and drugs did go with the rock and roll.  Alan Hunter relates a story in VJ about getting cocaine from J.J. Jackson and having the baggie burst open in his pocket, leading one of the guys hanging out with them to wipe it off the floor of a public bathroom. But sometimes the scandal was just rumor. In the book, Martha Quinn recalls keeping press clipping that said she was dating David Lee Roth in her scrapbook—because it wasn’t true. …And sometimes it wasn’t intended for the VJs.  Hunter was the recipient of the first nude picture that a female fan sent to the male VJs. But it wasn&#8217;t really for him — she wanted him to pass it along to Aerosmith&#8217;s Steve Perry. Getting the VJ gig wasn’t easy. Particularly not for Nina Blackwood. She went to the Tavern on the Green with executive producers who were trying to get her to take the job, and promptly got a roll stuck in her throat. She was saved by the Heimlich maneuver — and took the job. Being a VJ wasn’t a high-paying gig. Alan Hunter’s goal was to make $550 a week, as much as a Broadway chorus boy. He started off making slightly less than that:<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=entertainment.time.com&#038;blog=24659518&#038;post=3539347&#038;subd=timeentertainment&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Makes This First-Edition of The Great Gatsby So Valuable?</title>
		<link>http://entertainment.time.com/2013/05/02/what-makes-this-first-edition-of-the-great-gatsby-so-valuable/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 19:49:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lily Rothman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can pick up a new paperback copy of F. Scott Fitzgerald&#8217;s The Great Gatsby for a few bucks at most any bookstore in the U.S. As of last week, for a few more dollars—$15—you can even pick up a copy with a new tie-in cover featuring the cast of the Gatsby movie coming to theaters May 10. But if you want an original first-edition copy of the book, you&#8217;ll need Gatsby-level wealth. When sold with its original dust jacket, The Great Gatsby can be one of the most expensive rare books on the market. A copy went on sale this week via the U.K.-based online rare-book hub The Jones Brothers, and it&#8217;s priced at a whopping £125,000, about $194,000. (The site, which serves to connect dealers to buyers, also has access to a few other Gatsby first editions in various conditions, which start at a relatively affordable £90,000.) Another copy sold at Bonham&#8217;s auction house in 2009 for a then-record price of $180,000. &#8220;We get quite a lot of queries about The Great Gatsby from people who haven’t read the guide price and they’re quite shocked,&#8221; says Jones Brothers proprietor Charlie Jones. The Great Gatsby came out in 1925, not even 100 years ago, and it wasn&#8217;t Fitzgerald&#8217;s debut work. So why is the first edition so expensive? (MORE: Original Gatsby Film Payout to Fitzgerald: Less Than You’d Think) There are three main factors, says Jones: rarity, cover art and story. First-edition books are, by their very nature, rare, since publishers often choose to wait and see how they sell before ordering a second print run. Even though a first and a second printing may look nearly identical, an appraiser can tell the difference from the copyright page and date—as well as proofreading errors that are fixed by the time the second printing comes around. With the first-edition Gatsby, for example, one of the most famous &#8220;points&#8221; is a typo on the back of the dust jacket that spells &#8220;jay Gatsby&#8221; with a lowercase &#8220;j,&#8221; over which a correction has been made (by hand) in ink or with a stamp.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=entertainment.time.com&#038;blog=24659518&#038;post=3538685&#038;subd=timeentertainment&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Original Gatsby Film Payout to Fitzgerald: Less Than You&#8217;d Think</title>
		<link>http://entertainment.time.com/2013/04/29/original-gatsby-film-payout-to-fitzgerald-less-than-youd-think/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 18:23:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lily Rothman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[F. Scott Fitzgerald was a prolific writer not just of books and screenplays, but also of personal information: he kept a detailed list of earnings and other information from the years between 1919 and 1937. That wealth of information, known as the Ledger, is now available online via the Matthew J. and Arlyn Bruccoli Collection at the library of the University of South Carolina. Some of the information the author recorded may surprise modern fans. For example, Fitzgerald received $13,500—$16,666 minus two 10% commissions—for the 1926 sale of the moving-picture rights to The Great Gatsby. That&#8217;s $177,538.73 today, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics inflation calculator. As a point of comparison, the budget for the Gatsby movie due in theaters May 10 was, according to The Hollywood Reporter, $104.5 million. (MORE: Today’s Movie Trailer: The Latest Look at Gatsby) That factoid isn&#8217;t the only point of interest in the Ledger, which is divided into several sections including &#8220;Outline Chart of my Life&#8221; and &#8220;Zelda&#8217;s Earnings.&#8221; It contains records of everything he published—where and when—from the short story Babes in the Woods (Jan. 1917 in the magazine Smart Set) to Financing Finnegan (June &#8217;37 in Esquire) to  several stories with the word &#8220;Scrap&#8221; written in the &#8220;Disposal&#8221; column. There&#8217;s a record of all the money he earned writing after he left the Army, which ballooned from $879 in 1919 to $10,180.97 in 1936. As for Gatsby, Fitzgerald&#8217;s other earnings included: a $3939.00 advance in 1923, a $325 further advance in 1924, $1,981.85 for the book in 1925, a $900 advance on a theatrical version in 1925, $213 for Danish and Swedish rights, $2,250 for sound rights and $250 for the Modern Library edition. (MORE: Jay-Z Is Reportedly Writing the Score For Baz Luhrmann’s Great Gatsby Movie) The chart of Fitzgerald&#8217;s life begins with the Sept. 24, 1896, birth of Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald at 3:30 in the afternoon in St. Paul, Minn. (He was a big baby at ten lbs., six oz.) Other revelations: His first word was &#8220;up.&#8221; Nobody showed up to his 7th birthday party. At 18, while at<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=entertainment.time.com&#038;blog=24659518&#038;post=3538539&#038;subd=timeentertainment&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Beginner&#8217;s Guide to: Neil Gaiman</title>
		<link>http://entertainment.time.com/2013/04/25/a-beginners-guide-to-neil-gaiman/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 18:48:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lily Rothman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For fans of the author Neil Gaiman, the idea of needing a beginner&#8217;s guide may sound ridiculous: he&#8217;s been a cult hero for decades. His novels, short stories, and comic books have won all kinds of awards and prizes. But, in the manner of other genre icons who amassed a specific group of fans prior to mainstream success, his omnipresence might seem sudden to many others. &#8220;Omnipresent&#8221; is pretty accurate: He has several books coming out over the next few weeks —  Unnatural Creatures: Stories Selected by Neil Gaiman (which came out earlier this week, on April 23), Make Good Art (May 14), How to Talk to Girls at Parties (May 18) and The Ocean at the End of the Lane (June 18). A BBC radio-play adaptation of his novel Neverwhere premiered in March. And there&#8217;s more coming. So, to clear up any confusion, let&#8217;s start with the basics: So, who is this Neil Gaiman? And what does he do? He&#8217;s a British-born writer who now lives in the U.S., in a town outside of Minneapolis. He started out as a journalist and wrote his first book, about the band Duran Duran, in 1984, but he&#8217;s best known for his genre work. His break-out text was the comic book The Sandman, a 75-issue series that ran from 1989 through 1996. The epic — which takes place in the world of dreams — was among a handful of titles (along with Alan Moore&#8217;s Watchmen and Frank Miller&#8217;s The Dark Knight Returns) that elevated comic books into the realm of real literature. His other major works, for children and adults, include 2008&#8242;s The Graveyard Book, 2003&#8242;s Coraline, and 2002&#8242;s American Gods — all of which have won multiple awards and prizes. (MORE: Neil Gaiman, Geek God) Why is Neil Gaiman mainstream-famous now?  And when did this happen? It  happened sometime before he made a guest-appearance on The Simpsons in late 2011, but it&#8217;s hard to pinpoint the exact moment. Perhaps it was in 2009, when his book Coraline became a successful movie. Coraline wasn&#8217;t his first book-to-movie deal, but it was hugely successful (more so than Stardust or his take on Beowulf) — and was nominated<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=entertainment.time.com&#038;blog=24659518&#038;post=3537379&#038;subd=timeentertainment&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Amazon.com&#8217;s Most Well-Read City: Alexandria, Va.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 10:24:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (AP) — Alexandria, Va., and Knoxville, Tenn., are cities for readers, if not always the kinds of books your parents wanted you to read. Alexandria and Knoxville ranked No. 1 and No. 2 on Amazon.com&#8217;s annual list of U.S. cities buying the most books, newspapers and magazines per capita from the online retailer. E L James&#8217; erotic Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy was a big hit in both places, especially in Knoxville, which advanced from No. 12 last year. (MORE: What Was the Most Complained-About Library Book of 2012?) The list released Wednesday includes cities with populations of 100,000 or more. Alexandria, located just outside Washington, D.C., also topped the list last year. Miami was No. 3. Next were Cambridge, Mass.; Orlando, Fla.; Ann Arbor, Mich.; Berkeley, Calif.; Cincinnati; Columbia, S.C.; and Pittsburgh.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=entertainment.time.com&#038;blog=24659518&#038;post=3538180&#038;subd=timeentertainment&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Salman Rushdie on Bringing Midnight’s Children to the Big Screen — Plus: An Exclusive Clip</title>
		<link>http://entertainment.time.com/2013/04/24/salman-rushdie-on-bringing-midnights-children-to-the-big-screen-plus-an-exclusive-clip/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 09:45:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lily Rothman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Salman Rushdie recently added one more feather to his already-full cap: his 1981 novel Midnight&#8217;s Children—one of TIME&#8217;s Best 100 English Novels Written Since 1923—has been adapted a movie, for which the author contributed both the screenplay and voiceover narration. Midnight&#8217;s Children — winner of multiple Booker Prizes —  is a loose allegory of India&#8217;s modern history as told through the story of children born at the stroke of midnight on Aug. 15, 1947, the day that British India was officially partitioned into India and Pakistan. Those babies, the &#8220;Midnight&#8217;s Children&#8221; of the title, are possessed of magical powers, as can be seen in the exclusive preview clip seen above. The growth of two of those children—Saleem and Shiva, switched at birth—parallels the growth of their homeland. Rushdie recently spoke to TIME about the difficulties of turning an epic story into a 146-minute movie (opening in the U.S. on April 26), what it&#8217;s like to see his work on the big screen, and how he feels when he makes people cry. Why now, a movie version of Midnight&#8217;s Children? I had actually more or less given up on the idea that there would ever be a film of Midnight’s Children. After all, it’s rather an old book. [Director] Deepa Mehta and I had dinner together in Toronto at the time of the publication of The Enchantress of Florence. We were talking about this and that, and possible collaborations, and discussing other novels of mine that she was interested in. And then suddenly, out of the blue, she asked about Midnight’s Children and did I have the rights. I said I did, and she said, “Can I do that instead?” You make it sound very easy. It took 30 years for it to be easy. Was the plan always for you to write the screenplay? No. In fact, initially, I said I didn’t want to. I, more or less straightforwardly, refused to do it. I thought I’d written this already. One of the things I’ve learned in the last four or five years is<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=entertainment.time.com&#038;blog=24659518&#038;post=3536970&#038;subd=timeentertainment&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Digital Library Launches: Internet + Ancient Library of Alexandria</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 17:26:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lily Rothman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), a non-profit online service, was launched earlier today. So what exactly does this service—years in the making—offer? According to author Doron Weber, it&#8217;s &#8220;as if the Ancient Library of Alexandria had met the Modern World Wide Web and digitized America for the benefit of all.&#8221; If that sounds like a lofty description, it&#8217;s perhaps appropriate for the organization&#8217;s lofty goals. The beta version of the &#8220;discovery portal&#8221; was rolled out this morning at the New York Public Library, after the larger launch that had been planned to take place at the Boston Public Library was cancelled due to the events at this week&#8217;s Boston Marathon. (Weber, who is also VP at the Sloan Foundation, one of the DPLA&#8217;s funders, was on hand at the event.) But online access to library materials—even thought it&#8217;s neatly sorted with shiny-looking exhibitions and timelines and maps—isn&#8217;t actually the truly modern thing here. (MORE: What Was the Most Complained-About Library Book of 2012?) The Digital Public Library provides searchable access to digitized materials from archives, libraries and museums—but also makes its data available for software developments to create apps using the materials. The potential for those future developments is the best part, said John Palfrey, the president of the DPLA&#8217;s board, in a statement: The most exciting idea is that we cannot begin to imagine the extraordinary things that librarians and their many partners can accomplish with this open platform and such extraordinarily rich materials, from so many institutions large and small, together and at the ready. We will create new knowledge together and make accessible, free to all, information that people need in order to thrive in a democracy. Although the materials in the library are perhaps the biggest draw for now, the potential for new ways of using them is the most modern thing of all. Non-interactive information isn&#8217;t exactly on the cutting edge—so here&#8217;s a library where you can interact. But don&#8217;t worry, book lovers: you still can&#8217;t write in the books,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=entertainment.time.com&#038;blog=24659518&#038;post=3537652&#038;subd=timeentertainment&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Was the Most Complained-About Library Book of 2012?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:28:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lily Rothman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[50 Shades]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Which is more objectionable, kinky sex or giant underwear? By one measure at least, undies are the bigger offender. As Reuters reports, there&#8217;s a new leader atop the American Library Association&#8217;s (ALA) annual list of the most complained-about books: the Captain Underpants series by Dav Pilkey. A children&#8217;s-adventure series with an alarming focus on bathroom humor, Captain Underpants has been on the list before, but in 2012, it  led all other books in requests to be removed from library shelves. The Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy, on the other hand, which is about a BDSM relationship, made its first appearance on the list at the No. 4 position. The Association reported an increase of about 142%—to 464—in the number of formal complaints lodged, versus the previous year; the tally includes both public and school libraries. (MORE: The Great-Great-Grandson of Emily Post Wants To Bring Civility to The Internet) But the way the numbers are tallied, give the underwear books an unfair advantage. The most recent Captain Underpants installment—Captain Underpants and the Revolting Revenge of the Radioactive Robo-Boxers—came out in January, missing the deadline for 2012 complaints, but it joined more than a dozen other related titles. Fifty Shades, on the other hand, is a measly trilogy. People offended by the idea of Bionic Booger Boy have several times more opportunity to complain about it. Plus, there&#8217;s the fact that Captain Underpants is (clearly) for kids, who may well love Underpants, but have parents to complain on their behalf. Adults who don&#8217;t like erotica can just choose not to read it. (And, as the ALA pointed out in their State of America&#8217;s Libraries report, of which the list is just a small part, libraries that chose not to stock Fifty Shades whether due to content or quality often faced the wrath of angry would-be readers.) As for the rest of the list, Sherman Alexie&#8217;s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian and Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher were second and third on the list. The rest of the top ten included: And Tango Makes Three by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson, The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, Looking for Alaska<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=entertainment.time.com&#038;blog=24659518&#038;post=3537491&#038;subd=timeentertainment&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>To The Manners Born: The Great-Great-Grandson of Emily Post Wants To Bring Civility to The Internet</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 09:45:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lily Rothman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For nearly a century, the name Emily Post has been associated with the apparatus of etiquette and civility—which guidelines are sorely missing in our daily digital discourse. Charting these these unfamiliar waters for the Millennial Generation is the work of her great-great-grandson, Daniel Post Senning, author of the forthcoming book Emily Post&#8217;s Manners in a Digital World: Living Well Online (Apr. 16, in e-book and paperback). He talked to TIME about how the book came to be, why etiquette still matters, and how to end that annoying e-mail chain. How did you become the Post family&#8217;s digital guy? For a hundred years ‘Emily Post’ has answered all her correspondence. With the Internet, we had an online service that offered people to submit a question—because it was so much easier for people to do that online, the volume of the questions went up. I had this radical idea that we would be well served by having a Q&#38;A forum. That was where my role as the tech person at the Emily Post Institute really began. And right around the same time, we were writing the 18th edition of Emily Post&#8217;s big book of etiquette, which has been in publication ever since it was first written in 1922. One of the questions about this major rewrite was whether we should have a new-technology section. It became really apparent early in the editing process, that we weren&#8217;t going to be able to sequester or isolate that content. The major life events that draw people to Emily Post were all being impacted by new technology. It was really obvious to us that we needed to dedicate a book to this new material. What is it about this new material that makes it particularly tricky? Our working definition of etiquette at the Emily Post Institute is that etiquette happens any time two people are relating. It&#8217;s all about the expectations we have of each other, and the ways that we take each other into consideration when we think about what we do and how we behave.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=entertainment.time.com&#038;blog=24659518&#038;post=3536855&#038;subd=timeentertainment&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why I Can&#8217;t Trust the Fantasy Genre</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 20:16:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graeme McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As friends and colleagues talk excitedly about the return of HBO&#8217;s Game of Thrones, I find myself awkwardly keeping quiet the fact that I&#8217;m no fan of the show. Worse: I&#8217;ve actively disliked what little of the show I have seen. My nervousness isn&#8217;t based in that antipathy, or fear that I&#8217;d be thrown out of the Cultural Commentary Club for failing to align myself with this particular zeitgeist. No, it&#8217;s because of what I see are the basic failings of George R.R. Martin&#8217;s epic sprawl of a novel cycle (and related television series): Game of Thrones is a fantasy story, and the fantasy genre as a whole is something that I find myself unable to view with anything other than outright suspicion. Fantasy, I&#8217;m convinced, is the genre that&#8217;s constantly waiting for you to let down your guard, and pull the rug from under your feet without any warning. On the face of it, I should have no problem with fantasy. I am, after all, a fan of science fiction, someone who grew up (and continues to grow up) reading comic books filled with fantastic, amazing tales of people who can do things far outside the reach of mortal men, whether it&#8217;s flying faster than speeding bullets or shambling through the world as an undead monster seemingly unable to remain six feet under. Surely superheroes and supernature and science fiction are fantasies? If I can accept them easily enough, why do I have such a problem with &#8220;the fantasy genre&#8221;? The trouble, I suspect, is in the world-building aspect of each genre. Superheroes, for the most part, exist in worlds that are intentionally meant to mirror our own, with the differences becoming part of the story and out in the open. The same applies to much of science fiction; although the far future may be filled with inventions and ideas that don&#8217;t exist in our world, they, too, have to be specifically mentioned in order for them to exist and matter. There&#8217;s a sense that forewarned is forearmed. In fantasy, I<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=entertainment.time.com&#038;blog=24659518&#038;post=3535888&#038;subd=timeentertainment&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Have a Question About Online Etiquette?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 20:37:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TIME Staff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re reading this, you&#8217;re connected to the Internet. Which makes it likely that you&#8217;ve been offended by—or have offended someone else with—poor online manners. (It&#8217;s also likely that many might finds such &#8220;offensive&#8221; behavior to be perfectly normal.) There are many resources for resolving matters of etiquette—the New York Times recently highlighted the etiquette gurus of YouTube—but there&#8217;s still one name that, to many, remains the ultimate authority: Emily Post. And, on April 16, her great-great-grandson, Daniel Post Senning, is stepping up to the plate with a new book called Manners in a Digital World: Living Well Online. As with past Post tomes, the book takes readers through the rules of well-heeled behavior—but this volume, written by the webmaster of emilypost.com, focuses on the realms of our digital world: social networking, blogging and online communication. (MORE: 10 Unwritten Laws of Web Etiquette) We&#8217;ll be talking to Senning about his book next week—and have been offered a chance to pose a few etiquette-related questions of our own. And we&#8217;re letting you in on the discussion. What obscure rule of internet behavior do you not fully comprehend? What do you do correctly online, that nobody else seems to understand? Ask in the comments, via Twitter or on Facebook, before Monday Apr. 8, and we&#8217;ll try to get your question answered.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=entertainment.time.com&#038;blog=24659518&#038;post=3535827&#038;subd=timeentertainment&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>One Ring to Rule Them All: The Ancient Artifact That May Have Inspired Tolkien</title>
		<link>http://entertainment.time.com/2013/04/02/one-ring-to-rule-them-all-the-ancient-artifact-that-may-have-inspired-tolkien/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 15:25:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lily Rothman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a golden ring. It&#8217;s inscribed with a mysterious message. It carries a curse. Sound familiar? Fans of J.R.R. Tolkien&#8217;s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings will, of course, recognize the trinket as the One Ring: the magical item that grants Bilbo Baggins invisibility and later requires Frodo Baggins to go on a quest to destroy it. It&#8217;s made of gold, carries an inscription (&#8220;One Ring to Rule Them All, One Ring to Find Them &#8230;&#8221;) and brings bad things down upon the head of whoever carries it. Fans of antiquity, on the other hand, may recognize a particular Roman ring found in Silchester, a Roman site in the U.K., in the 1800s. That particular ring is on view at the Vyne, a historic house in Basingstoke, England, beginning today. The exhibit — which also includes Tolkien memorabilia — raises the question if that particular ring actually inspired the author. (MORE: Riddles in the Dark: The Hobbit’s 48 Frames per Second Explained) It&#8217;s thought that the ring was found by a farmer in the late 18th century, who probably sold it to the landowners who lived at the Vyne until the house became part of the National Trust. It&#8217;s a large thumb-size gold ring inscribed &#8220;Senicianus Live Well in God&#8221; in Latin, and it matches the description on a tablet found at another British Roman site; the text is a curse upon Senicianus for stealing the ring. Which is where Tolkien comes in. As the Guardian reports, Tolkien is known to have researched the ring prior to The Hobbit’s 1937 publication: he was the professor asked in 1929 to help the archeologist figure out which god was invoked in the curse. That said, it&#8217;s not as if the Vyne ring is the only cursed gold ring in history or mythology (see: the Ring of the Nibelung). But the new ring exhibit does have one thing possessed by no other contender for the title of Tolkien&#8217;s inspiration: a Tolkien-inspired tea menu to go along with. (MORE: Will Dungeons &#38; Dragons Be the Next Hobbit?)<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=entertainment.time.com&#038;blog=24659518&#038;post=3535799&#038;subd=timeentertainment&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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