Uncensored stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald to be released
A new, unbowdlerized edition of The Taps at Reveille by F. Scott Fitzgerald is the latest volume in the Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald, a series… Read more »
The challenge of translating Finnegans Wake
Last year Shanghai People’s Publishing House released the first part of Dai Congrong’s Chinese translation Finnegans Wake. The book was an instant bestseller, clearing through its initial print-run of 8,000 copies… Read more »
Previously rejected Beckett story to be published
When Samuel Beckett submitted his story collection More Pricks Than Kicks in 1933 to his publisher, Charles Prentice of Chatto & Windus, Prentice asked Beckett to add one more story… Read more »
Unsurprisingly, a novel about a time-traveling Hitler is a source of controversy
“Summer 2011. Berlin. Adolf Hitler wakes up on a patch of ground, alive and well.” It’s not the setup to some juvenile joke; it’s the setup to a best-selling novel:… Read more »
Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s travel journals to be published
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet, co-founder of City Lights Bookstore, and publisher of some of most important works of the Beat movement, has sold travel journals covering sixty years of his life to… Read more »
Serhiy Zhadan, Ukranian poet, beaten at protests
Kharkiv, among other cities across Ukraine, has been the site of a series of protests over the last few months after Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych backed out of a trade… Read more »
Mapping the stolen books of WWII
While George Clooney’s recent film The Monuments Men hasn’t received the greatest reviews, it has brought attention to the work that the officers for the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives… Read more »
Jack Higgins’s eagle has landed
Jack Higgins is a best-selling English writer known for gripping thrillers like The Eagle has Landed, the Angel of Death, and… A Little Friendly Orgy? Fans of Higgins’s work would… Read more »
RIP: Mavis Gallant, legendary short story author
Mavis Gallant, the famous short story writer best known for her collections The Other Paris, From the Fifteenth Distrtict, and Paris Stories, died yesterday, as this Guardian story reports. She was… Read more »
Love (or something similarly scented) is in the air
Valentine’s Day isn’t until Friday, which means there’s still plenty of time to come up with a heartfelt gesture for your significant other. You could follow the crowd and make… Read more »