Surprising and shocking things, and some less so

[oursin]

Okay, I very much doubt I am ever going to pick up a celebrity autobiography, but this comes as positively encouraging news:
Although the showbiz memoir is an ancient format, this season's rush of this-is-me books has felt fresh, partly because the people involved have waited until they had a story to tell. With the exception of the 32-year-old

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[kateelliott]

[drasecretcampus]

I'm very excited about the Blake - I believe something like thirteen of sixteen pieces survive. I guess it's the large paintings. (Thinking of which, I believe I will have seen all those if that is the case.) I presumably have the catalogue in one of my collecteds, but one can never have too many editions of collected works of favourite writers (especially as these, in the case of Marlowe and Blake, the contents vary).

Hoping to see Goldacre's take on the bad science, but nothing yet. It got coverage in all the freesheets