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☆ John Barth, Writer Who Pushed Storytelling’s Limits, Dies at 93
  + stars: | 2024-04-02 | by ( Michael T. Kaufman | Dwight Garner | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
John Barth, who, believing that the old literary conventions were exhausted, extended the limits of storytelling with imaginative and intricately woven novels like “The Sot-Weed Factor” and “Giles Goat-Boy,” died on Tuesday. His death was confirmed by Rachel Wallach, who works in communications at Johns Hopkins University, where Mr. Barth was an emeritus professor of English and creative writing. She said she did not have further details. Mr. Barth was 30 when he published his sprawling third novel, the boisterous “The Sot-Weed Factor” (1960). It projected him into the ranks of the country’s most innovative writers, drawing comparisons to contemporaries like Thomas Pynchon, Jorge Luis Borges and Vladimir Nabokov.
Persons: John Barth, “ Giles, ”, Rachel Wallach, Barth, Thomas Pynchon, Jorge Luis Borges, Vladimir Nabokov Organizations: Johns Hopkins University
☆ Sherlock Holmes: Original manuscript could fetch $1.2 million at auction
  + stars: | 2024-04-02 | by ( Issy Ronald | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +3 min
By the time they left, Wilde had committed to writing “The Picture of Dorian Gray” and Conan Doyle had agreed to write “The Sign of Four,” one of his most famous Sherlock Holmes stories. Now, Conan Doyle’s letters recounting that fated dinner and his sole handwritten manuscript of “The Sign of Four” are being auctioned by Sotheby’s New York, alongside other literary treasures. The manuscript alone is expected to fetch up to $1.2 million, given its unique significance and status as the most valuable Conan Doyle item ever offered at auction, a Sotheby’s statement said. Courtesy Sotheby'sThe manuscript itself is exceptionally clean, bearing only Stoddart’s edits to Americanize spellings and a few crossed-out words as Conan Doyle himself tweaked his work. All of Conan Doyle’s other surviving manuscripts, most of which reside in museums, similarly show little sign of being edited, Kiffer added.
Persons: Arthur Conan Doyle, Oscar Wilde, J.M Stoddart, Wilde, Dorian Gray ”, Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes, Conan Doyle’s, “, ” Selby Kiffer, they’re, you’re, Kiffer, Doyle, ”, Stoddart, Holmes, Watson, Rodney P, Scott Fitzgerald, Gatsby, Scott, Zelda, Vladimir Nabokov, Graham Greene, Vera Organizations: CNN, Langham, Lippincott’s, Sotheby’s Locations: London, American, York, Chicago, New York
☆ Lolita style, explained: Why the Japanese-born, Victorian-inspired street style enchants women around the world
  + stars: | 2024-01-25 | by ( Scottie Andrew | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +10 min
Her youthful obsession realized in front of her, Ella was inspired to buy her first piece of Lolita fashion in 2015, from the popular Lolita e-tailer Angel Pretty. While Lolita style is named after Vladimir Nabokov’s eponymous teen in the controversial 1955 novel, the overlap ends there. Even 1950s-style American prom dresses, with their extravagant skirts and bodices, influence contemporary Lolita fashion, he said. The skirt's fullness, achieved through the use of a petticoat, is a key characteristic of Lolita fashion. Ella says her personal Lolita style is a blend of classic and sweet, with a healthy dose of prints and patterns.
Persons: Ella hadn’t, waltzed, ”, Ella, Lauren, Shelby Knowles, Pretty, ” —, She’s, it’s, Michelle Liu Carriger, Bianca, Kandace, Vladimir Nabokov’s, Masafumi, Monden, accessorized, Lolitas, Marie Antoinette, Brigitte Bardot, Jane Birkin, ” Monden, ” Liu Carriger, lacy Lolita, Kei, don’t, Liu Carriger, Nghi, Mary, Jane heels, substyles Organizations: CNN, American, UCLA’s School of Theater, Film, Television, University of Sydney, New, Asahi Shimbun, Pink House Locations: California’s Bay, Japan, America, San Francisco , California, US, Oakland , California, Australia, British, Otaru, Hokkaido, Tokyo, Lolitas, California
☆ Maggie Harrison’s War on Wine
  + stars: | 2023-07-04 | by ( Alex Halberstadt | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +4 min
But the friend kept calling, and eventually she relented, flew to Portland and drove to a hillside in Amity. In 2019, she began offering an annual seminar for wine professionals that she named Beauty School. In her pursuit of maximally beautiful wines, Harrison has devised possibly the world’s most laborious way of making them. This blending period is when Harrison’s wines find their identities. “Though they can be punishingly difficult,” Ready told me, “those blending sessions are about trusting yourself, believing in the process and letting go of the desire to second guess.”Punishingly difficult seems to be Harrison’s thing.
Persons: Harrison, Lillian, ” Harrison, ”, Vladimir Nabokov’s, Mimi Adams, Nate Ready, Adams, “, ” Adams, Maggie Organizations: Beauty Locations: Willamette, Oregon, Ventura, Portland, Amity, Hood River, California
☆ In Love, on the Road and Undead
  + stars: | 2023-06-12 | by ( Dwight Garner | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
But it doesn’t say what should happen if the character dies and comes back to life as a tree — or at least a treelike variety of zombie. Then the love of his life, an ex-girlfriend named Lily, dies by suicide. But lo, somehow, here she is after her burial, undead, with dirt in her mouth and worms wriggling on her neck. Finn is still in love with Lily. Lily is still in love with Finn.
Persons: Lorrie Moore There’s, Vladimir Nabokov, Lorrie Moore’s fluky, Finn, Finn’s, Lily Organizations: IF Locations: Bronx
☆ Opinion: A cerebral rock star is dead
  + stars: | 2023-05-21 | by ( Opinion John Avlon | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +5 min
He is the author of “Lincoln and the Fight for Peace.” The views expressed in this essay are his own. These celebrated writers were the subject of long-form profiles and occasional tabloid scandals, treated as cerebral rock stars and voices of their generation. They were a post-punk crew that migrated from the UK to the US, including Hitchens, Tina Brown and Salman Rushdie. In his final book, “Inside Story,” part memoir and part novel, Amis returned to his friendship with Hitchens in the 1970s, prior to their becoming famous. It chronicles a doomed affair, flashing forward at times to the decline of their friend Saul Bellows from dementia, as well as Hitchens’ death.
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