Tag Archives: Manuscripts

The New York Times 11:36 pm on February 15, 2022
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Look It Up? Only if You’re Dishonest and Ignorant.

In “Index, A History of the,” Dennis Duncan explores the life and times of a practice that’s been dividing readers since Gutenberg.

#arcana, #bibliophilia, #book-trade-and-publishing, #books-and-literature, #duncan-dennis-author, #feuds, #gutenberg-johannes, #index-a-history-of-the-bookish-adventure-from-medieval-manuscripts-to-the-digital-age-book, #indexers-and-indexing, #manuscripts, #monasteries-and-monks

The New York Times 10:18 pm on January 5, 2022
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F.B.I. Arrests Man Accused of Stealing Unpublished Book Manuscripts

Filippo Bernardini, an Italian citizen who worked in publishing, was charged with wire fraud and identity theft for a scheme that prosecutors said affected hundreds of people over five or more years.

#book-trade-and-publishing, #books-and-literature, #federal-bureau-of-investigation, #frauds-and-swindling, #identity-theft, #impostors-criminal, #manuscripts, #writing-and-writers

The New York Times 10:31 pm on December 24, 2021
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Group Raises $20 Million to Preserve ‘Lost’ Brontë Library

The Honresfield Library, which includes rarely seen manuscripts by the Brontës, Robert Burns, Walter Scott and Jane Austen, will be acquired for the British public.

#auctions, #austen-jane, #blavatnik-leonard, #bodleian-libraries, #books-and-literature, #british-library, #bronte-parsonage-museum, #bronte-emily, #collectors-and-collections, #friends-of-the-national-libraries-nonprofit, #honresfield-library, #libraries-and-librarians, #manuscripts, #museums, #scott-walter-1771-1832, #sothebys

The New York Times 4:00 pm on December 10, 2021
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‘Dickinson’ on AppleTV+ Is Ending. But the Props Live On in Archives.

The Apple TV+ series “Dickinson” is donating scripts, props and other artifacts — including painstaking replicas of the poet’s manuscripts — to the Emily Dickinson Museum and Harvard University.

#amherst-mass, #apple-tv-plus, #archives-and-records, #books-and-literature, #colleges-and-universities, #dickinson-tv-program, #dickinson-emily, #dickinson-emily-archive, #dickinson-emily-museum-amherst-mass, #harvard-university, #houghton-library, #libraries-and-librarians, #manuscripts, #museums, #poetry-and-poets, #smith-alena, #television

The New York Times 1:13 pm on October 26, 2021
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Céline’s Newly Unearthed Work Causes a Stir in France

A legal battle is raging over manuscripts written by the antisemitic writer Louis-Ferdinand Céline that disappeared almost eight decades ago.

#anti-semitism, #books-and-literature, #celine-louis-ferdinand, #france, #jews-and-judaism, #manuscripts, #suits-and-litigation-civil, #writing-and-writers

The New York Times 2:00 pm on September 24, 2021
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He Taught Ancient Texts at Oxford. Now He Is Accused of Stealing Some.

Hobby Lobby, the craft chain that helped build a collection for the Museum of the Bible, has sued a former Oxford lecturer, asserting he sold it stolen artifacts.

#bible, #collectors-and-collections, #colleges-and-universities, #egypt-exploration-society-nonprofit, #frauds-and-swindling, #hobby-lobby-stores-inc, #libraries-and-librarians, #manuscripts, #museum-of-the-bible, #museums, #obbink-dirk-a, #oxford-england, #oxford-university, #oxyrhynchus-papyri, #robberies-and-thefts, #sackler-library, #suits-and-litigation-civil

The New York Times 5:29 pm on June 17, 2021
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Consortium Aims to Save the Honresfield Library

Sotheby’s has agreed to postpone a highly anticipated auction as a consortium tries to raise $21 million to acquire a “lost” private library for the British public.

#archives-and-records, #auctions, #books-and-literature, #bronte-anne, #bronte-emily, #burns-robert-p, #collectors-and-collections, #friends-of-the-national-libraries-nonprofit, #great-britain, #libraries-and-librarians, #manuscripts, #museums, #scott-walter-1771-1832, #sothebys

The New York Times 9:00 am on June 4, 2021
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What Happens to Philip Roth’s Legacy Now?

His single authorized biography is mired in controversy. Scholars say it shouldn’t be the last word, but they are struggling for access to his vast and in some cases inaccessible private archives.

#archives-and-records, #bailey-blake, #books-and-literature, #content-type-personal-profile, #libraries-and-librarians, #library-of-congress, #manuscripts, #nadel-ira-b, #newark-public-library, #norton-w-wco, #philip-roth-the-biography-book, #princeton-university, #research, #roth-philip, #sexual-harassment, #skyhorse-publishing, #wills-and-estates, #writing-and-writers

The New York Times 5:49 pm on May 27, 2021
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Yes, Steinbeck Wrote a Werewolf Novel. Don’t Expect to Read It.

A scholar of American literature at Stanford says it’s worth publishing. The agents representing the Steinbeck estate strongly disagree.

#books-and-literature, #manuscripts, #occult-sciences, #ransom-harry-center-the-university-of-texas-at-austin, #souder-william, #stanford-university, #steinbeck-john, #writing-and-writers

The New York Times 3:35 pm on April 14, 2021
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Decades After His Death, Richard Wright Has a New Book Out

“The Man Who Lived Underground,” a novel publishers rejected in the 1940s, is about an innocent Black man forced to confess to the murder of a white couple.

#black-people, #book-trade-and-publishing, #books-and-literature, #content-type-personal-profile, #library-of-america, #manuscripts, #native-son-book, #the-man-who-lived-underground-book, #wright-julia-1942, #wright-richard, #writing-and-writers

The New York Times 11:45 am on March 16, 2021
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Israel Reveals Newly Discovered Fragments of Dead Sea Scrolls

The finds, ranging from just a few millimeters to a thumbnail in size, are the first to be unearthed in archaeological excavations in the Judean Desert in about 60 years.

#dead-sea-scrolls, #israel, #israel-museum, #jews-and-judaism, #manuscripts

The New York Times 7:49 pm on February 19, 2021
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Auction House Suspends Sale of 19th-Century Jewish Burial Records

The records of a Jewish community in Romania that was almost annihilated during the Holocaust are viewed as essential to reconstructing its history.

#archives-and-records, #arts-and-antiquities-looting, #auctions, #auschwitz-concentration-camp, #brooklyn-nyc, #cluj-napoca-romania, #eastern-europe, #holocaust-and-the-nazi-era, #jews-and-judaism, #kestenbaumco, #manuscripts, #oradea-romania, #romania, #world-jewish-restitution-organization

The New York Times 12:44 pm on September 23, 2020
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White House Accused of Intervening to Keep Bolton’s Book From Becoming Public

A career official said political appointees “commandeered” the prepublication review process.

#bolton-john-r, #books-and-literature, #classified-information-and-state-secrets, #justice-department, #knight-ellen, #manuscripts, #national-archives-and-records-administration, #national-security-council, #the-room-where-it-happened-a-white-house-memoir-book, #trump-ukraine-whistle-blower-complaint-and-impeachment-inquiry, #trump-donald-j, #united-states-politics-and-government

The New York Times 3:43 am on June 19, 2020
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Targeting Bolton, Justice Dept. Again in Alignment With Trump’s Desires

Its request for an order blocking the publication of the former official’s memoir is the latest in a series of acts by the department to shield the president’s friends or pursue his critics.

#barr-william-p, #bolton-john-r, #books-and-literature, #classified-information-and-state-secrets, #cooper-charles-j, #justice-department, #manuscripts, #national-security-council, #suits-and-litigation-civil, #the-room-where-it-happened-a-white-house-memoir-book, #trump-donald-j, #united-states-politics-and-government

The New York Times 1:43 am on June 15, 2020
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The Pandemic Claims New Victims: Prestigious Medical Journals

Two major study retractions in one month have left researchers wondering if the peer review process is broken.

#academic-and-scientific-journals, #brigham-and-womens-hospital, #coronavirus-2019-ncov, #coronavirus-reopenings, #desai-sapan, #drugs-pharmaceuticals, #frauds-and-swindling, #harvard-university, #hydroxychloroquine-drug, #lancet-the-journal, #manuscripts, #new-england-journal-of-medicine, #science-and-technology, #your-feed-science

The New York Times 9:00 am on April 28, 2020
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Coming Soon: New Fiction From Simone de Beauvoir

“The Inseparables,” a novel Beauvoir abandoned in 1954, tells the story of a doomed friendship based on one from her own childhood.

#beauvoir-simone-de, #books-and-literature, #manuscripts, #the-inseparables-book, #women-and-girls, #writing-and-writers