LONDON.-A rare copy of John James Audubon’s “Birds of America,” billed as the world’s most expensive book, is up for sale alongside a first edition of Shakespeare’s plays at an auction to set book lovers’ pulses racing, Sotheby’s said Thursday. One of …
University of Virginia Puts Out Faulkner Audio Archives
RICHMOND, VA (AP).- Fans of Southern literature have read William Faulkner for decades. Now they can hear the author speak. The University of Virginia has published an online audio archive of the Nobel- and Pulitzer Prize-winning author’s two-year term…
Godfried Bomans in the Starring Role in Exhibition at De Hallen Haarlem
HAARLEM.- This summer De Hallen Haarlem presents an exhibition on Godfried Bomans. For years he was the most-read author in The Netherlands. The exhibition gives a picture of Bomans’s multifaceted talent: as a writer, as a composer and as a TV per…