Volumes I and II of ‘The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Poems’ delve deeply into the masterful works I have long admired. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-06-29 13:00:37 UTC ]
The Society of Authors has awarded grants to 48 writers, worth more than £185,000, to enable them to complete works in progress including queer auto-fiction, forgotten histories, and books about post-colonial Kenya and the natural world. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-12-08 04:36:42 UTC ]
Cartoonist Noah Van Sciver and Fantagraphics have teamed up to publish 'The Complete Works of Fante Bukowski', a hardcover compilation, and tongue-in-cheek tribute, to the self-proclaimed literary genius. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-03-03 05:00:00 UTC ]
AbeBooks has published a list of the most expensive books they sold this year, with The Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln, which sold for $40,000, at the top. Better luck next year, signed Harry Potter deluxe set ($38,560)! A first edition of The Maltese Falcon and Mark Twain’s complete writings... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-12-09 21:14:37 UTC ]
The Today presenter spurns social media, could live without television ‘except Mastermind’ but does read books on a iPad (albeit balanced on a lectern)It will come as no surprise to his millions of devoted listeners that the veteran BBC broadcaster John Humphrys despises Twitter, doesn’t do... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2016-03-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
The noted Italian writer Primo Levi (1919–1987), an Auschwitz survivor and the author of such acclaimed works as "If This Is a Man and The Periodic Table," is sometimes referred to as a Holocaust writer. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]