by | Jul 31, 2008 | Literary News
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...
by | Jul 26, 2008 | Literary News
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...
by | Jul 23, 2008 | Literary News
from the Guardian UK Lumley attacks ‘obscure’ new poetry The actress has been lambasted as old and out of touch for her controversial views on modern verse Amelia Hill , social affairs correspondent, The Observer When Joanna Lumley agreed to pen an...
by | Jul 20, 2008 | Literary News
from the NY Observer The Reviewers Come In From the Cold At Publishers’ Weekly, A Tradition of Anonymity is Abandoned; Herewith, Our Brief Review of the Reviewers BY LEON NEYFAKH Getty Images From an engraving depicting an American alderman of the 19th Century;...
by | Jul 13, 2008 | Literary News
from The Washington Post Missing Shakespeare Knocks on Folger’s Door English Book Dealer Arrested in Theft By David Montgomery and Mary Jordan Washington Post Staff Writers Saturday, July 12, 2008; A01 The man dressed a little flashy for a rare-book guy. British...
by | Jul 8, 2008 | Literary News
from the New York Observer Posthumous Fiction Collection From William Styron To Be Published by Random House BY LEON NEYFAKH A new collection of short fiction—including the first chapter of an unfinished novel—is coming from the late William Styron, according to...
