This Week’s Reading, 17.6.12

This week: Gustave Doré, some 19th Century Photoshopping, Bloomsday and the final farewell to Hiram Cronk.

• Leader image: Detail from a Gustave Doré illustration in a French edition of Don Quixote. Full image and more Doré here.

• Buff up your best poetry and short stories for Salt’s Crashaw and Scott prizes.

• Photomanipulation, 1875 – 1976.

• Bloomsday: Wishing Ulysses a happy 90th.

• Ashkan Honarvar’s War Faces.

• Patrick Ness wins Carnegie award, defends yoof of today.

• “Flagrantly offensive” — A review of Willie Smith’s Nothing Doing.

• Two Randolf Pfaff poems.

• Alastair Campbell vs. Armando Iannucci.

• The sketches of Sylvia Plath.

• Bookshop wedding in downtown Toronto.

• The funeral of Hiram Cronk, last surviving veteran of the War of 1812 (Via)