Tags: Literature
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Hoaxes Within Hoaxes
A literary prankster runs amok.
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Isn't it Time You Read a Fun, Nanny State-Mocking Book?
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Researchers: William Shakespeare Dodged Taxes
All the more reason to like the guy
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Faulkner Memorabilia Goes to Auction
Early manuscripts for literature fans
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Hacking for Freedom
Cory Doctorow’s sequel to Little Brother explores the struggle for civil liberties on the Internet.
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Chinua Achebe Dead at 82
Author of Things Fall Apart
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Study: British Lit Getting Less Emotional, American Moreso
Fear more common in books from both sides of the pond
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Free Sherlock Holmes!
The long reach of intellectual property law.
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Fake Soviet Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Books
Wednesday fun link.
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MLK's Contested Yet Universal Blueprint for Freedom
The fight over King's legacy is testament to the rare power of his words
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Tom Wolfe on 2012 Election: "I Wrote in Ron Paul"
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The Apocalypse According to Bill
Greet the end of the world with William Burroughs.
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Read All About John Steinbeck's Literary Fraud in New E-Book, NY Post Col
Reason contributor Bill Steigerwald has published a couple of ground-breaking exposes with Reason about John Steinbeck's literary fakery.
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Living in Lovecraft's World
An illuminating book explores "the literary prehistory of virtual reality."
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Salman Rushdie's Memoir of a "Life Profoundly Disfigured by Terrorism"
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Should Government Fund "the Arts"?
No more than they should fund worship.
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SEAL's Unauthorized bin Laden Raid Book Surprises Feds
Nobody mentioned it to them!
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Goodbye to Gore Vidal, America's Biographer and Champion
Remembering one of my favorite writers
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What Segregationists Really Believed: Read the Racist Rant That Couldn't See Print in 1962
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Whitewashing John Steinbeck
Why partisan politics and virulent racism were cut from the celebrated “non-fiction” road book Travels With Charley