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The Thoroughly Modern World of Louise Brooks
December 10, 2012
by Kris Somerville, Speer Morgan
This Found Text feature looks at the life of silent film icon, Louise Brooks. It is not currently available online.
The King of the Underworld: The Invention of Jelly Roll Morton
July 24, 2012
by Jelly Roll Morton, Kris Somerville, Speer Morgan
The full text of this feature is not currently available online.
Pulling Pranks: James Stern’s Reminiscences of an Edwardian Childhood
June 1, 2010
by Kris Somerville, Speer Morgan
James Stern never achieved literary celebrity. His books were few, his letters many and his memoir unfinished, yet what he wrote was the stuff of life-the beauty and tragedy of humanity. His memoir, “the problem book,” was not fashioned into a comprehensive work; what we show you from the Stern collection of the British Library are recollections that capture the adventure of childhood set against the backdrop of a mythical time and rarefied place.
Lost in Lotus Land: Ben Hecht’s Hollywood Letters
September 1, 2009
by Ben Hecht, Kris Somerville, Speer Morgan
Oh how tired I am. From writing 100 pages of dialogue & continuity in 4 days-rewritten as well-12 hours a day without stopping-all I feel is numbness and a buzzing. And I remember my Rosie, my Owner, and sigh, close eyes, dream a minute, kiss your knees, your thighs, while something in me murmurs mama, sweet one, sweet Rosie-and I feel a phantom of sweetness as if this moment too were a dream like last night.
Laurence Olivier’s Letters to Young Actors
December 1, 2007
by Kris Somerville, Laurence Olivier, Speer Morgan
Laurence Olivier never wanted to be a matinee idol or a leading man who played only romantic heroes. Yet after back-to-back performances in Wuthering Heights, Rebecca, and Pride and Prejudice in 1939-1940, he was sought after by producers and directors, celebrity magazines and ardent fans. His early roles were classic literary characters. A New York Times reviewer called his portrayal of Heathcliff a case of “a player physically and emotionally ordained for a role.” He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for both Wuthering Heights and Rebecca. Hollywood was sending a rare message: “We want more.”
Found Text: Ray Bradbury Letters to Rupert Hart-Davis
December 1, 2004
by Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury Letters to Rupert Hart-Davis
Found Text: William Gaddis
June 1, 2004
Featuring the stories: Jake’s Dog The Rehearsal A Father is Arrested
The Swan
December 1, 2003
by Allean Hale, Tennessee Williams
It had been like this for the past few nights, breathlessly still and overpoweringly hot, as though the earth’s long, circular motion through space had been suspended, perhaps through a kind of cosmic lassitude, and that [sic] now the discouraged sphere was drifting slowly downwards through dense, sultry darkness toward a forced landing in the sun’s great bin of ashes.
The Same Dust, the Same Wind: The Afghanistan Memoirs of Annemarie Schwarzenbach
June 1, 2003
How does one do justice to a woman who drove a Ford across the Hindu Kush, yet died in a fall from her bicycle near her home in Switzerland at the age of thirty-four?
Marlene Dietrich: A Portrait
September 1, 2002
by Franz Hessel
This feature is not currently available online. In 1929 a legend was born.
Selznick and the Stars
June 1, 2001
by David O. Selznick, Kris Somerville, Speer Morgan
Presenting the letters of David O. Selznick. The full text of this feature is not currently available online.
Publication is Not Recommended: From the Knopf Files
September 1, 2000
by Staff
Mention publishing these days and people in the industry, from the writers and agents to those working in book sales and publishing houses, think about consolidation, the blockbuster complex, abandonment of the midlist, the lowest common denominator and the bottom line.
An Interview with Knopf Editor Ashbel Green
September 1, 2000
by Staff
Interviewer: According to Alfred Knopf’s own remarks, made in a talk in 1949, Alfred got into the business partly by getting to know good bookstores, including a model publisher in England, Martin Secker. Then he came back to New York …
The Letters of Jack London to Charles Warren Stoddard
June 1, 2000
by Charles Warren Stoddard, Jack London
The full text of this feature is not currently available online. The following letters and preceding photograph are reproduced by permission of the Huntington Library, San Marino, California. For the information conveyed in the introduction and footnotes, Roger Austen’s Genteel …
The Porter-Warren Letters: The Turbulent Years
June 1, 1998
by Katherine Anne Porter, Robert Penn Warren
These letters cover 1935 to 1942, the years when Robert Penn Warren and Katherine Anne Porter emerged as important American literary figures. Warren, fifteen years younger than Porter, was enormously active during this time. In addition to his writing, teaching, and traveling, he helped found a major literary magazine and cowrite, with Cleanth Brooks, one of the most influential textbooks in American literary history. Porter, meanwhile, was publishing some of her best stories, in the spare, realistic, yet numinous style that was her trademark.
The Search After Happiness
September 1, 1997
This “Found Text” feature is not currently available online. Not many years ago there lived in a certain city a person of the name of Henry O Donell. In figure he was tall, of a dark complexion and searching black …
Will Mr. Merriwether Return from Memphis?
September 1, 1997
This “Found Text” is not currently available online. A never-before-published, full-length play by Tennessee Williams.
“My Luck, Just Now, Is Pretty Hard”: Letters From Bret Harte, 1872-78
December 1, 1996
However modest his modern reputation, Bret Harte deserves to be resurrected from the footnote. As founding editor of the Overland Monthly in 1868, he was mentor to an entire generation of Western American writers, among them Samuel Clemens, Ambrose Bierce, Joaquin Miller and Ina Coolbrith.
Found Text Series: A Play from Saml L. Clemens
December 1, 1995
Col. Sellers A Drama In Five Acts by Saml L. Clemens
The Letters of Dolly and Zane Grey
September 1, 1995
by Zane Grey
Wednesday, Feb. 18, 1913
My dear husband,
This is my first letter to you. Whether it will be the last is still a matter of conjecture on my part. But I simply cannot resist telling you of our interview this morning.
Soldier Girl: The Civil War Memories of Elizabeth Bacon Custer
September 1, 1994
Elizabeth Clift Bacon, Libbie to family and friends, was born April 8, 1842, in Monroe, Michigan. The only surviving child of Daniel and Eleanor Bacon, she was educated at private girls’ schools in Monroe and New York. In 1862, at Thanksgiving party, she was introduced to a young Union Captain, George Armstrong Custer, called Autie by famile and friends.
“So Atrocious a World”: Selections from the Unpublished Letters of Henry James
June 1, 1993
by Fred Kaplan
This found text is not currently available online.
The Dead Sea Scrolls: The Book of Jubilees
December 1, 1992
by James VanderKam, Speer Morgan
1:27 Then he told the angel of the presence to dictate to Moses from the beginning of the creation until my sanctuary is built among them for all the ages of eternity. 1:28 The Lord will appear in the site of all, and all will know that I am the God of Israel, father of all Jacob’s children, and king on Mt. Zion for all the ages of eternity. Then Zion and Jerusalem will be holy. 1:29 The angel of the presence, who was going along in front of the Israelite camp, took the tablets (which told) of the divisions of the years from the time the law and the testimony were createdÑ for the weeks of their jubilees, year by year in their full number, and their jubilees from the time of the creation until the time of the new creation when the heavens, the earth, and all their creatures will be renewed like the powers of the sky and like all the creatures of the earth, until the time when the temple of the Lord will be created in Jerusalem on Mt. Zion. All the luminaries will be renewed for (the purposes of) healing, health, and blessing for all the elect ones of Israel and so that it may remain this way from that time throughout all the days of the earth.