- A "Dickens' Legacy" conference will be held tomorrow at Cambridge University.
- Simon Callow has come to terms with the fact that Shakespeare, not Dickens, will be "the chosen poster boy for British culture" during the London Olympics. (I, however, have not.)
- Portsmouth is doing special "Discover Dickens" tours in honor of the bicentennial.
- An art show in New Zealand is showing watercolors inspired by Dickens, by the artist Paul Braddon.
- Christopher Gellert, in the Washington Square News, dares to suggest that "in his day, [Dickens] might have been considered as campy as Stephanie Meyer." BITE YOUR TONGUE, SIR.
- In a more palatable comparison, the New Yorker's Maria Tatar examines the tradition of child deaths in literature, from Dickens to Stowe to The Hunger Games.
- The Gravesend Messenger reports on the new Charles Dickens Ale, created by The Leather Bottle pub that was featured in The Pickwick Papers.
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