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The Reading Eagle have announced that the John Updike Society has finalized plans to buy the author’s childhood home in Shillington, Pennsylvania, for $200,000. Updike, who died in 2009, lived in the Philadelphia Ave. home for the first thirteen years of his life. Renowned for…
The day that many scholars, publishers, critics, and other lovers of literature have hoped would come at last, has come at last. Yes, as of the 1st of January, the estate of James Joyce has passed over into the public domain. Now, I know what…
For the first time ever, the original manuscript of Jacques Casanova’s legendary memoirs has been put on display. The show, titled Casanova—The Passion for Freedom, is being held at the National Library in Paris and runs through February 19th, 2012. The manuscript set a record…
The Letters of Samuel Beckett, Volume 2 was released last month; the book reveals what the famous author was reading from 1941 to 1956, along with notes about the novels and essays he sent to various correspondents throughout the years. It shows Mr. Beckett at…
You can, if you’ve got the scratch, and the desire, buy deceased author Norman Mailer‘s Brooklyn apartment. It’s on the market now for a cool $2.5 million. Mailer, who had nine children with his five wives. designed the space himself. The unusual, nautical-themed archeticture was…
A trove of unpublished writings by Malcolm X — including journals he kept in the year leading up to his assassination — is being kept from publication by a bitter, ten-year long court feud between his six daughters, according to a New York Times report…
The University Archives website — an auction house that doesn’t seem to have anything to do with a university — is offering another look into the deep reclusiveness of J.D. Salinger. As an auction notice on the site details, for $22,500 you can by a…
Via Matt Sledge‘s post and slide show over at the Huffington Post, we learned that the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library is well on its way to being ready to open full time next year. (The library’s url website icon–yes, the asshole–is without a doubt in…
Following up on an earlier report: “A judge at Tel Aviv District Family Court on Tuesday rejected a request for a gag order on the contents of a box containing manuscripts written by Franz Kafka,” reports a Haaretz story by Ofer Aderet. “Eva Hoffe, the…
“After months of legal wrangling, one of the 10 safe deposit boxes in which documents belonging to the writer Franz Kafka (1883-1924 ) and his close friend Max Brod (1884-1968 ) were hidden for 40 years” was opened last Monday in Tel Aviv, according to…