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Arthur Conan Doyle Can’t Be Bothered with Your Questions

jhgardner April 11, 2013

Ever heard of the Proust Questionnaire? It's a list of questions about one's personality, named not because Marcel Proust, the French writer, wrote the questionnaire, but because he took it. (You can see a full list of the questions and Proust's response at this Wikipedia page.) The idea is that the person sitting down to…

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New-Old Scribbles from Old, Old Authors

jhgardner August 10, 2012

A curious trend seems to be spreading across the literary world whereby deceased authors' previously unseen scribblings are being brought into the light. First we had Hemingway's 47 alternate endings to A Farewell to Arms in print, then an uncovered and previously rejected short story by F.Scott Fitzgerald was published by The New Yorker. And this…