- Twist headed for Broadway? Could be . . .
- Singer/songwriter Morrissey likes Dickens "because he was a terribly gloomy character, embittered, and quite depressed." Um, okay.
- Dickens makes another best-of list. This time it's Dick Datchery landing on a "Best Disguises" list — even though we don't know for certain that he was wearing a disguise!
- Apparently Dickens was quite sarcastic about the pre-Raphaelites — and a little paranoid (as was already hinted in Pictures from Italy) about Catholicism. Interesting, coming from the author of Barnaby Rudge.
- Over the Christmas holidays, you can get a good deal on a stay at a London hotel that was once Dickens's dwelling.
- Here's another in our ongoing list of teachers who made Dickens exciting. A Dickensblog Order of Merit goes to the unnamed teacher whose "spirited and dramatic reading of 'Oliver Twist'" changed a dyslexic student's life.
- And while we're at it, how about another one, for the teacher who "said that anyone who voluntarily read Charles Dickens in the eighth grade was going to one day be a college professor"? (Too bad I didn't get to that point till the ninth grade!)
UGH. I definitely won’t be watching. Thanks for the thoughtful review!
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