Feature on actor/novelist David Thewlis, whose The Late Hector Kipling - ("This book is a disgrace." - Jake Chapman) is recently out. Great stories about being on set with Brando ("... I've seen him naked and he was a big fella."), etc
More than 100,000 books previously unavailable to the public will go online thanks to a mass digitisation programme at the British Library. The programme focuses on 19th Century books, many of which are unknown as few were reprinted after 1st editions.
Iron gall ink - made from oak apples - turning your parchments to jelly? Never fear - the Diamond Synchrotron (great name!) can unravel their secrets before it's too late...
A handy list, with some well-known names, as you'd expect (Achebe, Coetzee, Mahfouz, etc) - but plenty of others I hadn't come accross. There's a non-fiction list, too.
along with the victims, the narrator is also murdering Proust's novel, lopping off body parts bit by bit, cutting it down to manageable size...; the narrator even comments, “For life is too short, and Proust is too long.”
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