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Watch The Trailer For OITNB Season 6
Netflix dropped the trailer for the sixth season of Orange is the New Black, the series adapted from Piper Kerman’s memoir, Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison. I don’t want to spoil anything for anyone who hasn’t binge watched the previous seasons, but if you want a play-by-play of the trailer with a little look back at season five, you can check out this BuzzFeed announcement.
The English Patient Wins Best Of Man Booker
Michael Ondaatje’s wartime love story The English Patient won the Golden Man Booker Prize. This “best of” Booker Prize commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Man Booker. The public voted to choose the winner from a shortlist of five previous Man Booker winners selected by a panel of judges.
Stolen Yeats Letters Identified
A researcher discovered a collection of unpublished, stolen letters written by W.B. Yeats. The letters, burgled in the 1970s, had only recently been returned to Princeton University, delivered anonymously. In the recovered collection, the Irish poet corresponded with his publisher and publishing assistant. “I am desperately hard up and owe about £20,” Yeats wrote in a letter. That writer’s life.
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