It's the same old story: You start off working in publishing, maybe forgetting to return a library book here and there, and pretty soon you're getting busted for drugs, weapons possession, and flogging stolen library books for cash at the city's independent bookstores.
By Elizabeth Minkel September 30, 2011 It's the same old story: You start off working in publishing, maybe forgetting to return a library book here and there, and pretty soon you're getting busted for drugs, weapons possession, and flogging stolen library books for cash at the city's independent bookstores.
On 25 April, it will be 50 years since Joe Orton, the playwright best known for Loot, and his partner, Kenneth Halliwell, were arrested for stealing and defacing library books.
In April 1962, while still struggling writers, both he and Halliwell received a six-month prison sentence for stealing and defacing library books (which they then returned: their inspired and witty collages could now be considered high-concept art).
During a four-year jail term in his twenties — for stealing furs — May ran the prison library, where he read a lot of Baedeker.
Earlier this week, Andrew Ryan, an English Defence league member with a history of public order offences, including racial chanting, was sentenced to 70 days in prison for burning a Qu'ran (he also received a 30-day sentence, to be served concurrently, for stealing the book from a local library).
Arrested nearly four months ago for stealing rare maps from Yale University's Beinecke library, E. Forbes Smiley III, below, returned to New Haven yesterday for a pretrial conference at New Haven Superior Court.
All the better for stealing the spotlight.
But for stealing a billion dollars.
Anatoly (17) is here for stealing bicycles.
