Well-circulated: J. M. Coetzee reviews Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez in the The New York Review of Books.
Another book review: Written Lives by Javier MarÃas – An acclaimed Spanish novelist offers quirky portraits of famous writers. (via Arts & Letters Daily)
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A Cemetery of Poets Is in Crisis in Rome:
This city’s tiny Non-Catholic Cemetery possibly contains the highest density of famous and important bones anywhere in the world: the cramped final resting place of the poets Keats and Shelley, dozens of diplomats, the Bulgari family, Goethe’s only son and Antonio Gramsci, a founding father of European Communism, to name a few.
(via the New York Times)
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41 Stunning Books – A Selection of Modern Private Press Books. (via The Olive Reader – The Weblog of Harper Perennial)
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Chinese man ‘jailed due to Yahoo’:
The internet giant Yahoo has been accused of providing China with information that led to the jailing of a second internet writer.
(via the BBC)
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The Greatest Man in the World, fiction by James Thurber originally published in 1931, has been brought back from the New Yorker archive. (via Bookslut)
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Thomas Jefferson’s Scrapbooks by Jonathan Gross (forthcoming from Steerforth Press, May 2006):
Jefferson’s spirit seemed to haunt this book, beckoning the researcher, as he had encouraged so many scholars, to study his life, his interests, and hobby-horses. It was an intensely personal book: a mature genius’s leisure-hours retrospective, not the work of a child.
(via Rare Book News)
