Austen’s Ring,Watch What Every Frenchwoman Wants Online 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.
