Get out of here, Get Out of Here . . .
Dennis Johnson
The novel supposedly written by Saddam Hussein, Get Out of Here, Damned One (see last week’s MobyLives news digest), has been banned from publication in Jordan “on the grounds that… Read more »
The novel supposedly written by Saddam Hussein, Get Out of Here, Damned One (see last week’s MobyLives news digest), has been banned from publication in Jordan “on the grounds that… Read more »
In Scotland to accept the inaugural Man Booker International Prize, “Albanian dissident and author Ismail Kadare said Monday that his small victories in smuggling work out of his homeland inspired… Read more »
L. Patrick Gray, the Nixon appointee who ran the FBI immediately after the death of J. Edgar Hoover — and thus, during the height of the Watergate scandal — says… Read more »
In 1969, perhaps to make up for its reputation for “banning and exiling its greatest literary names,” such as Joyce, Beckett, Wilde and Shaw, Ireland’s then-finance minister Charles Haughey enacted… Read more »
In a Bonhams auction of books from the personal library of Ayn Rand, this listing for Mary McCarthy’s The Humanist in the Bathtub notes some of Rand’s marginalia, all of… Read more »
The BBC News offers a profile of Ismail Kadare, the winner of the recently awarded, first-ever Booker International Prize. According to the Beeb, the expatriate writer is “often cited as… Read more »
Harry Frankfurt’s On Bullshit is also making a splash in the UK, where the 67-page pamphlet is selling 50 copies a day, says Harry Younge in a Guardian dispatch. The… Read more »
A 65-year-old retired Christian theologian has begun getting some attention for a book he published a year ago, The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions About the Bush Administration and 9/11,… Read more »
Perhaps surprisingly to fellow Democrats—in light of the intensely vitriolic attack he launched on them at the Republican convention last summer—former Democratic Georgia Senator Zell Miller says in a new… Read more »
Rupert Murdoch’s HarperCollins has announced it will publish “Ronald Reagan’s handwritten diaries of his eight years in the White House,” according to an Associated Press wire story. Reagan supposedly “wrote… Read more »