Austen’s Ring,Gina Wild - Jetzt wird es schmutzig 5 (2000) Hemingway’s EndingsBy Sadie Stein July 5, 2012On the ShelfA turquoise ring that once belonged to Jane Austen is on the block at Sotheby’s, accompanied by a note from Eleanor Austen to her daughter. Bookstores with cafés sell more reading material, figures suggest. Two more New York City bookstores, Washington Heights’s Word Up and Harlem’s Hue-Man, face closure. (The latter will continue as an online store.)Poet Simon Armitage crossed the Pennine Way as a modern troubadour, exchanging only verse for food and shelter. A new edition of A Farewell to Arms will contain Hemingway’s thirty-plus alternate endings. Celebrating Pie Week.
