“A former church caretaker, his wife, son and another woman have been arrested in connection with last year’s disappearance of a priceless medieval text from the Santiago de Compostela Cathedral in northwest Spain, police said on Wednesday. The Codex Calixtinus, a 12th century collection of sermons and liturgical passages [and music], vanished from a safe deposit box in the cathedral.”
Category: publishing
Help Choose The Worst History Books In History!
“[The] History News Network … has announced that it would be celebrating the Fourth of July by … accepting nominations … for ‘history books that nobody should take seriously’.”
Alternative Endings (47 Of ‘Em) That’s Hemingway
“A new edition of “A Farewell to Arms,” which was originally published in 1929, will be released next week, including all the alternate endings, along with early drafts of other passages in the book. The new edition is the result of an agreement between Hemingway’s estate and Scribner, now an imprint of Simon & Schuster.”
Faulkner’s The Sound And The Fury To Be Published, As Intended, With Colored Ink
“The four sections of the book, which tells of the disintegration of a southern family, move back and forth through time. Faulkner had hoped to use different colours of ink to mark the sometimes-confusing chronological shifts.” Now, in honor of the 50th anniversary of the author’s death, the Folio Society is releasing a printing following Faulkner’s plan.
150 Years Of The Search For The Great American Novel
“Since its inception, the GAN has been a remarkably enduring concept, staying stubbornly put in critical and popular discourse alike despite numerous – some, almost successful – murder attempts. But though the GAN as such seems here to stay, the way we think about it has evolved significantly from its original conception to the present day. And that evolution is as inevitable as it is profound.”
Kurt Andersen On Writing A Novel In First Person
“The distinctions between third- and first-person narration aren’t absolute, of course. Third-person narrators have implicit personalities, focusing more on some characters, making judgments of what they think and say and do … Most third-person narrators are less like omniscient gods than exceedingly snoopy, well-informed ghosts.”
The Boat Ride That Changed Lewis Carroll’s Life
“When mulling over boat trips that inspired major works of fiction, we inevitably think of Mark Twain piloting the 865-ton Memphis down the Mississippi River, Joseph Conrad serving as a steamboat captain in the Congo, or Herman Melville’s 18-month trip to the South Pacific. But 150 years ago this week, a very short boat trip took place that resulted in a very big book.”
A Philosophy For Literature
Does anybody read analytic philosophy for pleasure? Is this kind of philosophy literature? Here you might say, “Certainly not!” Or you might say, “What the heck is analytic philosophy?”
Dan Brown Books Are Most-Donated To Charity (Part 4)
“Dan Brown may no longer be the fastest-selling adult author of all time, losing out on that record last week to EL James and her slice of erotica Fifty Shades of Grey, but The Da Vinci Code author has retained another, less sought-after honour: he has topped Oxfam’s list of the writers most donated to its charity shops for the fourth year running.”
The Olympics Of Poetry
“The relationship between poetry and the Olympics goes back to the very origins of the Games. In ancient Greece, literary events were an indispensable part of athletic festivals, where fully clothed writers could be as popular with the crowd as the buff athletes who strutted about in the nude, gleaming with olive oil.”