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• Baltimore’s Poe House to reopen this fall

  Last year was a tumultuous one for Edgar Allan Poe’s onetime home in Baltimore. The Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum had its funding from the city cut off in… Read more »

• W.H. Auden’s “lost” journal recovered, 75 years later

  One of three known journals written by W.H. Auden has been recovered nearly 75 years after it was written. This journal dates between August and November 1939. Auden died in… Read more »

• Dan Brown causes price wars, bookshops party like it’s 1999

  There are loads of things we predicted the new Dan Brown novel would bring: clumsy, soul-destroying prose, translators cast into working conditions resembling the pits of hell, Tom Hanks looking… Read more »

• Ernest Hemingway’s Cuban archives finally available in the US

  Ernest Hemingway wrote some of his most enduring works from his estate in Cuba, where he lived off and on from 1939-1960, but until now most of his papers from that… Read more »

• Clive James on Dan Brown: “I pity him deeply”

  Have you heard that Dan Brown published a book called Inferno? Well, one of our best and most searing critics, Clive James, certainly did. James recently translated the original Inferno, which was… Read more »

• Charlaine Harris faces nutty fans, death threats with the conclusion of the Southern Vampire Mysteries

  Ending a long-running series with a huge fan following is an endeavor fraught with peril. The television finales from Seinfeld and Lost sparked outrage from viewers who were unhappy with the way things… Read more »

• Canadian writers’ union to make decision on self-published authors

  Matt TenBruggencate reported for the CBC last week that the largest association of writers in Canada is set to make a decision as to whether to reverse its long-standing policy… Read more »

• David Foster Wallace’s Kenyon commencement speech video

  David Foster Wallace’s 2005 commencement address begins: (If anybody feels like perspiring [cough], I’d advise you to go ahead, because I’m sure going to. In fact I’m gonna [mumbles while… Read more »

• Ten Nights On Long Island: The Great Gatsby’s early reviews

  In its first year, The Great Gatsby sold a disappointing 21,000 copies, less than half of the first year sales for This Side of Paradise or The Beautiful and Dammed.… Read more »

• Pink unicorns and pastel bling: Maureen Johnson calls out gendered covers

  When author Maureen Johnson tweeted on Tuesday, “I do wish I had a dime for every email I get that says, ‘Please put a non-girly cover on your book so I can… Read more »