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Fantasy Xmas shopping for book lovers: Christie's droolworthy auction
Jacket CopyLooking for just the right gifts for the book lovers in your life? Today, in two auctions, Christie's is auctioning some rare and stunning literary artifacts. Cormac McCarthy's typewriter is only the beginning; there are first editions and letters and....... -
Cormac McCarthy's $254,500 typewriter
Jacket CopyCormac McCarthy's typewriter sold at auction today for 254,500 bones, more than 12 times the estimated cost of $15,000-$20,000. And the thing barely works! Functionality isn't the point, of course: Provenance is. It's notable that McCarthy has written all... -
The lure of writers' houses
Jacket CopyThe website M + E -- run by author Emma Straub and her husband, Michael Fusco -- is selling a new series of four literary posters, each with an illustration of a writer's home (with address). The illustrations by Aislinn...... -
'Byron in Love: A Short Daring Life' by Edna O'Brien
Happy the poet whose life and work remain so well-remembered that his name becomes an adjective.
George Gordon Byron, sixth baron of that title, is certainly a poet who stands in that rarefied company, though it's hard to believe that even the linguistic...Tags: Biography (genre), William Faulkner, Poetry, Edna O'Brien, Arts and Culture
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New in paperback: Huxley's demons and the grace of Hanif Kureishi
Aldous Huxley: "The Devils of Loudun" (HarperPerennial)
In 1643, an entire convent in the small French village of Loudun was apparently possessed by the devil. The convent's charismatic priest was eventually convicted of seducing the nuns in his charge...Tags: Victor Hugo, University of California, Central Intelligence Agency, Saul Bellow, Aaron Burr
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Write a literary mash-up, get a laptop
Jacket CopyBoingBoing is giving away one free HP Envy laptop to the best literary mash-up posted on its site before Friday. Sure, "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" kicked off the genre, but the blog's not asking for quite that -- the...... -
David Byrne on a bike, the genius of Poe and Rod Serling
'Shadow and substance'
What's the first thing you think about when you hear the words "The Twilight Zone"?
Is it a man in a black suit with a cigarette? Or that cool, lawyerly voice: "Submitted, for your perusal: a Kanamit. Height: a little over 9 feet....Tags: Gaming, The Da Vinci Code (movie), Fiction, Crime (genre), David Byrne
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'Nevermore,' biographical play about Edgar Allan Poe, travels to Baltimore
Culture MonsterIt only seems fitting that a play about the life of 19th century writer Edgar Allan Poe should eventually find its way to Baltimore. "Nevermore," which ran at the Steve Allen Theater in Hollywood earlier this year, will have its...... -
From the Vaults: 'House of Usher' (1960)
The Daily MirrorPeople with funeral fetishes, I have got the movie for you, and it is Roger Corman's "House of Usher." (Yes, I am beaming affectionately at you, my dear goth friends.) The first in a rash of Corman films taken from titles by Edgar Allan Poe, "Usher" is... -
Clobberin' Oscar Wilde
Jacket CopyIn 1998, a Canadian comics fan sent letters to 10 illustrators asking for them to send him a sketch of their favorite literary figure, either a fictional character or a real-life author. After getting a few back -- including one...... -
'Very Short Story': Twitter short story writer says more with less
Brand XIn keeping with the brevity subject matter, I'll try to be brief: If you are on Twitter, and love literature, then the hot user to follow these days is "Very Short Story" AKA writer Sean Hill -- who uses Edgar Allan Poe, seen above -- as his avatar. Which... -
Go with the floe to 'Iceberg Alley'
Special to The TimesThe icebergs that travel to Labrador are time capsules -- sealed thousands of years ago, when snow fell on Greenland. The snow compressed into glacial ice, white from the trapped air bubbles, these from pre-pollution times. Today, that glacial ice...Tags: Pies and Tarts, Meteorological Disasters, Travel, Salt, World War II (1939-1945)
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