Wednesday Hangovers

• The BBC and the British Museum partner on a new serialized radio program "A History of the World in 100 Objects."
• An interview with Kristin Cashore over at the Enchanted Inkpot, and video of the author trapezing at ALA. (It looks like soooo much fun. Want to do.)
• Tiffany has some thoughts about antagonists.
• A list of unsung YA titles.
• Zora Neale Hurston's manuscripts were almost burned as garbage. (Via @andevers.)
• The Gratzs uncover the existence of Bond Girl Barbies.
• Margaret Ronald stops in at the Big Idea on the occasion of her second Evie Scelan novel, an urban fantasy series I wholeheartedly recommend.
• Yep, they named it the iPad. Part of me still wants one.

Comments

[Monica Edinger]

Presumably it is your female parts that are demanding that new apple pad.

[GWENDA BOND]

It's just too easy, isn't it? I hear it's got "magical and revolutionary" dry-weave technology.

[Monica Edinger]

Snort. Shooting fish in a barrel.

[Mr. Cavin]

I'm looking forward to the inevitable "blue water" absorbency commercials.

[Mr. Cavin]

There's a pretty swank trapeze school here in DC (at the corner of H Street and Nine, maybe, in a big parking lot). On nice days it's fun to stand outside and watch them all learn.

[Katherine Langrish]

The History of the World in 100 objects is seriously wonderful. I keep catching it in the car or when cooking. I've seen that million year old hand axe in the British Museum, and it gave me the cold shivers. Talk about the dark backward and abysm of time!