Charlotte Brontë Poem at Auction,Bazaar and Other NewsBy Sadie Stein April 11, 2013On the ShelfAn itty-bitty, handwritten Charlotte Brontë manuscript has sold at auction for £92,000. In Hong Kong, one small bookstore has become a haven for banned Chinese books.The City of New York is ponying up $230,000 to pay for the Occupy Wall Street Library destroyed in the 2011 Zuccotti Park raid.With numbers dwindling, a Texas book club folds after 120 years of regular meetings.I hereby call for a moratorium on … whatever this genre is.
