Remains of the day

by CAAF | February 17th, 2006

This post was written by Friday guest blogger Annie Reid.

The White Hart, a pub featured in the works of Thomas Hardy, is slated for demolition.

Book of the Day appreciates Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret and notices that Margaret’s menstrual technology has been updated to keep up with the times. (Via Gwenda Bond.)

Are publishers stifling young novelists with too large advances and too much pressure?

Ann Hulbert reviews Maile Meloy’s new novel, in which her first novel becomes a sort of character in its own right.

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"And now our Irish family is Jewish. Our 'Swap Cousins' are Irish.”
A century-old switched-at-birth case is unraveled through DNA, with help from CeCe Moore. More at Strange Pilgrimage:
And then, interestingly, she asked me if I had expected my genetics results to report a sizable Ashkenazi component. I had expected it, I told her, but it turns out, I’m not very much Ashkenazi. Instead, I am unexpectedly Irish. It’s all very mysterious, I confided. And that’s when everything started to get a little weird.
Alice wrote that a few years back she had ordered a genetics test. She had expected the results to report that she was Irish, but instead they uncovered that she was half Ashkenazi Jew. She figured there must have been some mistake, but all of her brothers and sisters received the same results. P, her cousin, however, did not. Alice’s cousin, P, was not Jewish and was in fact not genetically related to Alice at all.
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