Submit
Wednesday, February 8th, 2012
Facebook / Twitter / Tumblr / Podcast

Blog

Roundtable

  • The Editors

    Contest: Working Titles

    Tags:
    ,
    ,
    ,

    The working titles of famous books were often best left where they were, crossed out on some coffee-stained legal pad. But sometimes those titles were so wonderfully weird, it's shocking to think that some of the world's greatest authors couldn't title their way out of a paper bag. That's why we're offering this short contest to our online readers today. Match the working title to the published title in the manner below—the answer shown is "16. A" and so on—and the person who submits the first fully correct response to contests@laphamsquarterly.org by tonight at midnight EST will receive a free issue of Arts & Letters.* (Click on the image for a clearer version.)

    UPDATE: Congrats to Natalie McDonald of Philadelphia! For everyone else, the answers are now available to all to see in Charts & Graphs.

    DontJudgeABook2.png

    *The editors are aware that the answers to this chart are located in the Arts & Letters issue, and we really mean for this to be a contest for people who don't yet have the issue and would like to get one. Spread the love, yes?

    May 3, 2010 Bookmark and Share
Roundtable Archive Love this? Subscribe to Lapham's Quarterly today.

Get one free trial issue of Lapham's Quarterly!

  • Fill out this order form.
  • If you like the magazine, get the rest of the year for just $49 (4 issues in all).
  • If not, simply write cancel on the bill, return it, and owe nothing.
Please enter a first name.
Please enter a last name.
Please enter an address.
Please enter a city.
Please select a state.
Please enter a valid
zip code.
Please select a country.

Canadian subscribers add $10; All other international subscribers add $40.

Post a Comment

Note: Several minutes will pass while the system is processing and posting your comment. Do not resubmit during this time or your comment will post multiple times.

RSS
RSS
Recent Posts
  1. Predicting Their Own Demise — 11/16/2011: We can say what we want about the future of reading, but perhaps we ought to let the novel speak for itself.
  2. The Zombie Apocalypse of Daniel Defoe — 11/01/2011: "A Journal of the Plague Year" might not technically chronicle an undead armageddon, but all the elements of the now popular genre are alive and well.
  3. Heraclitus in Guatemala — 10/28/2011: D. Graham Burnett recounts an unlikely conversation he had with his barber about the philosophy of history.
Archives
  1. December 2011
  2. November 2011
  3. October 2011
Blogroll
The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children, the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best, after all.
—Benjamin Spock, 1946
Events & News
September 15 / Open the seventh seal! The Fall issue of Lapham's Quarterly, "The Future," will hit newsstands on September 15. More
Reader Survey Take the LQ reader survey! Your two cents will help us keep making history ... Take Survey
Editor’s Picks Beyond the Quarterly: LQ favorites and recommendations. View
Apropos

In Stir

No. 44

Subscribe
Current Issue Family Winter 2012
Blogs

Content on this page requires a newer version of Adobe Flash Player.

Get Adobe Flash player
Audio & Video
LQ Podcast:
Peter Ackroyd Author and translator Peter Ackroyd talks with Aidan Flax-Clark about his new retelling of Thomas Malory’s Le Morte D’Arthur and discusses a little bit about his most recent book of London history, London Under.
Eponym
Lewis H. Lapham is Editor of Lapham's Quarterly. He also serves as editor emeritus and national correspondent for Harper's magazine.
Recent Issues

© 2012 Lapham's Quarterly. Design by Point Five, NY.