Peter Matthiessen, 1927-2014 [courtesy the Paris Review]
[Book Nerd News] Peter Matthiessen is Dead
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Tag Archives: News
[Book Nerd News] Arthur Conan Doyle/Edgar Allan Poe
- AN UPDATE ON SAVE UNDERSHAW: Arthur Conan Doyle’s house to be converted into special school [courtesy The Guardian]
- Boston’s Edgar Allan Poe Statue Will Be Unveiled in October [courtesy Boston Magazine]
Off Topic Post: Goodbye, Shirley Temple!
In all of the years that I’ve written about old movies, I’ve never done an essay about Shirley Temple…but that doesn’t mean I don’t love her. She was, and will always be, a star.
Shirley Temple in the full bloom of her stardom. She died yesterday, at 85.
[Book Nerd News] Amiri Baraka Dead at 79
Amiri Baraka Dead at 79 [courtesy nj.com]
“A system that warehouses people is not the cure for social ills.”
[Book Nerd News] Doris Lessing Has Died
Doris Lessing, Nobel Prize-winning author, has died at 94 [COURTESY LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOKS]
[Book Nerd News Update] Results Are In: Pablo Neruda Was Not Poisoned
Results Are In: Pablo Neruda Was Not Poisoned [HUFF POST BOOKS]
However, his family is not convinced.
For more on this story, go here.
[Book Nerd News] The Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum Reopened Yesterday
Great news for book nerds!
Edgar Allan Poe’s house reopens [courtesy THE BALTIMORE SUN]
[Book Nerd News] Poet Seamus Heaney is Dead!
Seamus Heaney, Irish Nobel Prize-Winning Poet, Dies at 74 [courtesy PEOPLE]
Seamus Heaney Dead: Irish Nobel-Winning Poet Dies in Dublin [courtesy HUFF POST BOOKS]
[Book Nerd News] Elmore Leonard is Dead!
Elmore Leonard Dead: Famed American Novelist Dies At Age 87 [courtesy HUFF POST BOOKS]
Elmore Leonard, Who Refined the Crime Thriller, Dies at 87 [courtesy THE NEW YORK TIMES]
Elmore Leonard dies at 87; master of the hard-boiled crime novel [courtesy LOS ANGELES TIMES]
[Book Nerd Links] F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Handwritten Ledger…
…is a fascinating and priceless literary and cultural treasure. Filling the years 1919-1938, it is a neat autobiography of his (and Zelda’s) professional output and earnings. The whole thing is now available on-line. Go there, go there now! It is a first-class time-waster worth every second.
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Ledger [courtesy University of South Carolina]
His handwriting is elegantly divine.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, meticulous record-keeper, in 1921.
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