by | Nov 30, 2008 | Literary News
from Prospect Magazine Roget’s Thesaurus is more than just a book about words—and the story of its author’s often unhappy life provides a suggestive counterpoint to its complexities Lesley Chamberlain Peter Mark Roget, the future Linnaus of the English...
by | Nov 27, 2008 | Literary News
from MSNBC Federal agents recover ‘Hitler’ bookmark Romanian man arrested trying to sell item to undercover officers updated 3:45 p.m. MT, Wed., Nov. 26, 2008 SEATTLE – Authorities have recovered a stolen 18-carat gold bookmark that reportedly was...
by | Nov 21, 2008 | Literary News
from The Guardian UK Bad sex award exposes this year’s nominees Alastair Campbell among Literary Review’s nominees for the year’s worst erotic writing Alison Flood guardian.co.uk, Thursday November 20 2008 15.12 GMT Article history ‘Slightly...
by | Nov 18, 2008 | Literary News
from Shelf-Awareness Library of Dust photographed by David Maisel (Chronicle Books, $80, 9780811863339/0811863336, September 2008) This is definitely a big gift book, measuring almost 18″ x 14″, which is a display challenge, but worth it. In 1913, Oregon...
by | Nov 16, 2008 | Literary News
from the New York Times When a Real-Life Killing Sent Two Future Beats in Search of Their Voices Courtesy of the Allen Ginsberg Trust William S. Burroughs, left, and Jack Kerouac in 1953. By MICHIKO KAKUTANI The best thing about this collaboration between Jack...
by | Nov 14, 2008 | Literary News
from MSNBC In the book world, the rarest of the rare Would you pay $25 million for a Bible? By Philipp Harper Every passion has its Holy Grail, and rare-book collecting is no exception. Ask a group of bibliophiles to identify the rarest of all rare books, and a...
