Alan G. James, editor of The Master, the Modern Major General, and His Clever Wife: Henry James’s Letters to Field Marshal Lord Wolseley and Lady Wolseley, 1878–1913, sent along the following piece about the genesis and various stages of the project. It is an excellent insider’s look at how a book originates that begins, “Twenty years ago or so I experienced a literary epiphany: I discovered Henry James.”
Any fans of the latest edition of Best New Poets who happen to be in the New York area should mark their calendars for two upcoming events. A number of BNP contributors will be reading from their work at 7:30 on January 7 at Bar 13 in Greenwich Village. On January 9 at 7:00 more BNP contributors will be reading at BookCourt in Brooklyn.
One of the most popular events in the Fall Lecture Series at the Mariners’ Museum proved to be Mapping Virginia author William Wooldridge’s presentation, “Where in the World Was Virginia? Mapping a Moving Place, 1587-1865.” As Wooldridge explains, during the age of exploration the exact location of Virginia was still very much open to debate.
Rotunda, the electronic imprint of the University of Virginia Press, announces the release of its latest digital publication: Edited by Robert Whalen and Christopher Hodgkins, The Digital Temple is a complete edition of George Herbert’s 1633 masterpiece, The Temple.
NPR’s Kojo Nnamdi welcomed Mapping Virginia author William Wooldridge to his show last week. The entire episode may be heard here on the Kojo Nnamdi Show official site. The web page also features a gallery of fifteen of the book’s maps.
Ivor Noël Hume’s Belzoni, an epic biography of the man who procured for the British Museum many of its most celebrated Egyptian artifacts, is among the New York Times’ 100 Notable Books of 2012.