December 10, 2024, Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Research + TeachingMilton in Phoenix by AARON T. PRATT Any Shakespeare collector would want a copy of Raphael Holinshed’s Chronicles, which is arguably the most comprehensive history of England, Ireland, and Scotland written during the sixteenth or seventeenth centuries. Carl H. Pforzheimer bought a copy of the first edition (1577) for his library of early… read more
December 10, 2024, Filed Under: Authors“Into the Emptiness” by Frederick Seidel “Into the Emptiness” by FREDERICK SEIDEL Into the emptiness that weighs More than the universe Another universe begins Smaller than the last. Begins to smaller Than the last. Dimensions Do not yet exist. My friend, the darkness Into which the seed Of all eleven dimensions Is planted is small. Travel… read more
August 8, 2024, Filed Under: Authors, Books + ManuscriptsUNTIL AUGUST: A NOVEL by Gabriel García Márquez Excerpt from UNTIL AUGUST: A NOVEL by Gabriel García Márquez, translated by Anne McLean, translation copyright © 2024 by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House… read more
