Apparently Faulkner isn’t the only modernist getting a little repackaging. A new edition of A Farewell to Arms that includes each of the 47 endings Hemingway wrote for the novel will be published later this week.
47 New Ways to Bid Arms Goodbye
Greatly Exaggerated
At 74, Clive James is a remarkably prolific poet, one who’s working hard to finish or publish three books in the next year alone. He spoke with Douglas Murray of The Spectator about his unflagging energy. “At the moment, I am in the slightly embarrassing position where I write poems saying I am about to die and I don’t,” he says. You could also read our own Garth Risk Hallberg on James’s book Cultural Amnesia.
Love-Love
Why not follow in the footsteps of writers such as David Foster Wallace and play some tennis?
New Vessel Press Brings International Literature to the US
New Vessel Press is a new publisher specializing in the translation of foreign literature into the English language. Translator Ross Uffberg and journalist Michael Z. Wise started it last year. Next month, they’ll publish their first book, The Missing Year of Juan Salvatierra by Pedro Mairal, and they have plans for quite a few more as well.
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In Translation
At Salonica, a holiday gift guide for lovers of international literature.
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Harper Lee’s Sister Tells Some Stories
Harper Lee’s sister, Alice Finch Lee, gives some insights about the reclusive To Kill a Mockingbird author’s life. Apparently Lee’s as big a fan of the presidents as our own Janet Potter.