A posthumous collection of Muriel Spark’s writings will include her oddly compelling lunch party photo.
This Thursday night at the Brooklyn Public Library, Akashic Books celebrates ten years of reverse-gentrifying the literary world. “I think that literature should be consumed by more than just the well-educated,” founder and publisher Johnny Temple told the IHT earlier this year. “[W]e don’t need to just keep trying to sell books to the same people, these people for sure . . .
Raymond Carver’s widow wants to publish what she’s calling the original (pre-Lish) versions of 17 Carver stories.
Twain & Tesla: famous moustaches meet in the lab. Really — it’s not a Doctor Who outtake. (Thanks, Titivil.)