Extremely dedicated novelist runs into burning house to save manuscripts
Existing outside the history of literature is the shadow history of lost books. Whether stolen, destroyed, or simply surrendered to obscurity, these works live on only as a promise of… Read more »
Notorious art forger claims ‘‘La Bella Principessa’’ as his own
Controversy has been compounded with more controversy in the story of a drawing thought by some to be a lost work by Leonardo da Vinci. La Bella Principessa features an aristocratic… Read more »
Charles Dickens just gave us the “Rosetta Stone of Victorian literature”
Many of us in the book trade are experiencing burnout this week on the topic of previously “lost” works by iconic authors. Which is unfortunate, because Lazarus books are one… Read more »
Kwuggerbug! More Dr Seuss to come
“Congratulations!/Today is your day./You’re off to Great Places!/You’re off and away!” That’s the kind of rhyme that is currently going around in the head of every Dr Seuss fan, after… Read more »