Alan Kaufman is The Outlaw

from the OUTLAW Facegroup     Recent News   The OUTLAW BIBLE OF AMERICAN POETRY (Basic Books) has just gone into its 11th printing. SPECIAL OUTLAW BULLETIN!!!!JUST IN!!!! A SPECIAL Welcome to Dominique Lowell who joinedOUTLAW today. Not only is she featured in The...

Lessing’s Visceral Latest

from the NY Times BOOKS OF THE TIMES Lessing Looks Back on Shadows and Parents By MICHIKO KAKUTANI Published: August 5, 2008 Doris Lessing once declared that “fiction makes a better job of the truth” than straightforward reminiscence, and while that might well be true...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn Gone

from AP via the Arizona Republic Author Alexander Solzhenitsyn dies at 89 Aug. 3, 2008 02:46 PMAssociated Press MOSCOW – Russian news agencies say author Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel prize-winning chronicler of the horrors of the Soviet gulag system, has...

1984 Is Almost Here

from The Orwell Diaires 29 July, 2008 by orwelldiaries Orwell Diaries 23 July, 2008 by orwelldiaries ‘When one reads any strongly individual piece of writing, one has the impression of seeing a face somewhere behind the page’, wrote George Orwell, in his 1939 essay on...

The Olympics’ Strangest Moments

from the Independent Publishers Group The Olympics’ Strangest Moments Extraordinary but True Stories from the History of the Olympic Games Updated edition  Geoff Tibballs (Author) The world’s greatest sporting occasion has historically been filled with unusual...