New Biography Claims Emily Dickinson Had Epilepsy : NPR: Another offering from National Public Radio, this one about the new biography of poet Emily Dickinson that opens the door on a number of skeletons in the Dickinson family closet.
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The Writer Who Couldn’t Read : NPR: This fascinating story from NPR (National Public Radio) tells the story of Howard Engel, a Canadian mystery novelist who woke up one morning and discovered that he could no longer read. His brain damaged by a stroke, Engel couldn’t make sense of written words, which looked to him
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Twain died 100 years ago today | Book Blog | STLtoday:
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In His Private Books, Signs of Mark Twain as Critic – NYTimes.com: By the end of his life, Samuel Langhorne Clemens had achieved fame as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi, a globe-trotting lecturer and, of course, the literary genius who wrote ‘The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’ and other works under the name Mark Twain.
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J.K. Rowling faces another plagiarism suit / The Christian Science Monitor – CSMonitor.com: It’s not the first time that Rowling, estimated to be the world’s wealthiest author, has had to defend herself against charges of plagiarism. One prominent case involved a 2002 suit brought by American author Nancy Stouffer who claimed that her character ‘Larry
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Mississippi Plantation Diary That Inspired William Faulkner Discovered – NYTimes.com: The climactic moment in William Faulkner’s 1942 novel ‘Go Down, Moses’ comes when Isaac McCaslin finally decides to open his grandfather’s leather farm ledgers with their ‘scarred and cracked backs’ and ‘yellowed pages scrawled in fading ink’ — proof of his family’s slave-owning past. Now,
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Book Review – ‘Get Real,’ by Donald E. Westlake – Review – NYTimes.com: The New York Times offers a review of Donald Westlake’s final novel: After watching a bare-chested dentist trekking through the jungle by torchlight to shake a spear at a sunburned accountant in a loincloth, you might think television reality shows were beyond
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Nonfiction Tweets: 70+ Authors to Follow on Twitter: I’m so deeply entangled in preparing to do my dissertation research that I haven’t had time even to figure out exactly what Twitter does. But for those of you who are more adept at social networking than I, here’s a list of nonfiction authors who Tweet. The
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This week’s Scout Report has a good round-up of items about the death–and life–of John Updike: John Updike, Critic and Author, Dies At Age 76 Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author John Updike Dies at Age 76 [Real Player] http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99942825 Remembering Updike http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/remembering-upd/ For better or worse, John Updike produced a nearly endless stream of work http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-mew-updike-appreciate28-2009jan28,0,6965396.story John
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An Appraisal – Updike Made the Mundane Into a Saga – NYTimes.com: Endowed with an art student’s pictorial imagination, a journalist’s sociological eye and a poet’s gift for metaphor, John Updike — who died on Tuesday at 76 — was arguably this country’s one true all-around man of letters, moving fluently from fiction to criticism,
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