Rethinking the Classics

July 21, 2024 News Editor 0

Do you think you know what makes a classic novel… er… classic? The Washington Post thinks maybe we should think again. WaPo recently asked readers of their Book Club newsletter “which classic books are overrated and which unsung novels should be considered top-tier, we didn’t predict the level of enthusiasm that would accompany the responses”. Among those that some readers thought should get the toss were iconic books like J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the […]

“New” F. Scott Fitzgerald Story Found

August 5, 2015 admin 1

Has there ever been a year when so many “long lost” manuscripts turned up? Dr. Suess, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and, of course, Harper Lee, whose Go Set a Watchman, published last month, could not have created a bigger stir. And now? Another long lost hat gets thrown into the ring. This one from a newly found short story from F. Scott Fitzgerald. From The Telegraph: The 8,000-word tale is called Temperature and is believed […]