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1. Friday procrastination: winter cold edition

By Alice Northover


What do you read when struck down with a winter cold? Run back to the classics of Fitzgerald and Spielberg; learn from the ancients and panic about technology; and try not to look at things that make your eyes fall out.

In anticipation of the upcoming movie, the literary world is going Gatsby. First up, “Where Daisy Buchanan Lived.”

The University of Chicago received a package for Henry Walton Jones, Jr (Indiana Jones).

Portraits of literary greats.

Russian animated literature!

Cancer scientists take lessons from the ancient Greeks.

Music inspired by books. Next up band names inspired by books?

New technology + publishing = +1 on to do list.

Rachel Fershleiser of Tumblr on the Bookternet.

Bram Stoker and Walt Whitman were pen pals.

Articles for deletion on Wikipedia.

Beautiful bookbinding.

In defense of memes.

The antimonopolist history of the world’s most popular board game.

An online tutorial for medieval Latin.

Our most intriguing book review yet: “my big criticism with The Book of Marvels And Travels is that it’s not very good as a videogame. i found it extremely hard to manipulate the controls through the pulpy binding and the graphics are no good. i tried to visualise about what i was reading and then i started imagining a blue triangle moving through an endless purple void and when i woke up my pillow was gone.”

And finally Gatbsy!

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Alice Northover joined Oxford University Press as Social Media Manager in January 2012. She is editor of the OUPblog, constant tweeter @OUPAcademic, daily Facebooker at Oxford Academic, and Google Plus updater of Oxford Academic, amongst other things. You can learn more about her bizarre habits on the blog.

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2. World Cup Wonders

Today sees the kick-off of the football (OK, soccer, but I’m British) World Cup in South Africa. Given that tomorrow sees England play the USA, this seems like the perfect time to bring you the below features from the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

By the way, in case you’re wondering, I’m not supporting anyone. I’m Scottish. We didn’t make it into the competition (again).

Who would Fabio Capello, England manager, have picked with the whole of British history to choose from?

Editors at the ODNB have drawn on more than 55,000 historical figures to select an alternative XI: Cole, Crouch, and Terry, but not as you know them. They appear alongside a team of true footballing greats who’d have had more of a chance.

Crouch and Crouch

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3. Ryder Cup greats from the Oxford DNB

As much as we love spending all day reading the OUPBlog we recognize that there is other great content out there.  For example the Ryder Cup Greats on the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.  From the 19th to 21st of September golfers from the United States and Europe battle it out for the Ryder Cup, the sport’s most prestigious team competition. The cup is named after Samuel Ryder, an English seed merchant and passionate amateur player, who funded an international match between British and American professionals in 1926 and sponsored a regular tournament from the following year.

To mark this year’s contest the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography has picked two teams of Ryder Cup greats active from the 1930s to the present day, and drawn from the Oxford DNB, American National Biography, and Who’s Who.  Check it out!

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