This post introduces a new feature, Monday Miscellany, a conglomeration of intriguing literary items that have found their way to my monitor. Remembering Stieg Larsson In The New York Times, David Carr reviews ‘There Are Things I Want You to Know’ About Stieg Larsson and Me, by Eva Gabrielsson. Gabrielsson is the woman who lived […]
Publishers Weekly offers a follow-up to J.K. Rowling’s mega-announcement of Pottermore: many people who work in publishing think that as interesting as Pottermore is, the endeavor says less about the future of book publishing than about the singular status of a very wealthy author who has the inclination and means to build her own brand.
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Eva Gabrielsson, the woman who lived for 32 years with Swedish author Stieg Larsson, is in the United States on a promotional tour for the English translation of her memoir, ‘There Are Things I Want You to Know’ About Stieg Larsson and Me. Larsson, a journalist, was the author of the enormously popular Millennium trilogy:
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Author J.K. Rowling unveils her latest project, Pottermore: J.K. Rowling has created Pottermore, a free to use Web site taking readers right into Hogwarts, as a way of thanking her fans and paying them back for their contributions to the book. Rowling announced the news in a press conference at the Victoria and Albert Museum
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Author Michael Cunningham writes about how, as a teenager, he discovered Virginia Woolf through a reading of her novel Mrs. Dalloway, and how his own mother figured in his attempt to write about Woolf in his novel The Hours. As a woman, Woolf knew about the sense of helplessness that can afflict women given too
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Strange doings over the upcoming publication of a book about Harper Lee, famous reclusive author of To Kill a Mockingbird: The statement did little to clear up the confusion surrounding the book, “The Mockingbird Next Door: Life With Harper Lee.” It was announced on Tuesday as “the story of Mills’s friendship with the two
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Essay – Read My Book? Tour My House – NYTimes.com: Someday, I really would like to tour The Mount, Edith Wharton’s house in Lenox, Massachusetts. In the meantime, here’s an essay from Anne Trubek about the whimsy of preserving writers’ living quarters.
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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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