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3 days ago by Jonathan S.

The New York Times has a story about Hemingway's classic posthumous work detailing his early days in Paris. It's being recast and edited by Hemingway's grandson, Seán Hemingway. From the story... Early next month, Scribner, now an imprint of Simon & Schuster, is publishing a new edition of the book, ...

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5 days ago by Trish

On June 29, 1613 during the first on-stage production of Henry VIII, the Globe Theater of Shakespeare fame burned to the ground. Quickly erected and quickly raised, the theater reminds fans of the Elizabethan era that even the best figures from history had their problems. Built in a few short months ...

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6 days ago by Janeite Deb

Many of us who grew up in the late 40s – early 50s had our Jane Austen force-fed to us in high school (unless we were fortunate enough to be blessed with an Austen-loving mother or father!). Pride & Prejudice was the standard text with little reference to the other works; followed by George Eliot’s ...

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7 days ago by The Crotchety Old Fan

After paying a visit to the SF Hall of Fame website and perusing the list of inductees, I have discovered a strange and interesting, while still bizarre, factoid. There are, as of yesterday’s ceremony, 57 inductees into the Hall of Fame; virtually every era of genredom and every discipline within it ...

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15 days ago by Dave Mazella

["Ossian Receiving the Ghosts of French Heroes" 1802 by Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson; image from Bits of News] I suppose I’m one of the few people who could spend a week researching eighteenth-century writers in Scotland, and come home and feel fired up to write a series of posts about Hans ...

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15 days ago by The Crotchety Old Fan

I’ve been meaning to get around to posting this for awhile…actually quite a while. At least since 1976 when the events I’m going to talk about actually ocurred. I know, I know, quite a while, but I’m one of those self-effacing, not-interested-in-self-promotion kind of guys, and it has taken the past ...

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18 days ago by Jonathan S.

All these years later, Frances Kroll Ring can still see it, the afternoon she filled out an application at Rusty's Employment Agency on Hollywood Boulevard and drove to Encino to meet a writer who was looking for a secretary. So begins a story in the LA Times about F. Scott Fitzgerald's last secreta ...

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19 days ago by Tracie

KEY WEST, Florida Keys — Ernest Hemingway’s decade of residence in Key West ended late in 1939, but his literary legacy lives on — both in the island city and in the annual Hemingway Days festival. Scheduled Tuesday through Sunday, July 21-26, Hemingway Days 2009 offers a number of events that celeb ...

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19 days ago by Jonathan S.

Literary history could have been dramatically different if some classics had been published under their working titles. Robert McCrum, for The Guardian, takes a look at some famous books, such as Baa! Baa! Black Sheep (known to you and me as Gone With the Wind).

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21 days ago by admin

In The Cambridge Companion to Keats, leading scholars discuss Keats’s work in several fascinating contexts: literary history and key predecessors; Keats’s life in London’s intellectual, aesthetic and literary culture; the relation of his poetry to the visual arts; the critical traditions and theoret ...

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