Author Robert Coover, who famously declared “The End of Books” in an influential 1992 essay published in The New York Times, stepped to the podium not with an iPad or e-reader but with a sheaf of pages. At the Jan. 31 Writers Institute event, the father of hypertext and metafiction read from his new novel, “Huck Out West,” from honest-to-God ink pressed into dead trees.
Category: Literature
Prufrock: The Originality of Pascal, Hemingway’s Letters, and a Discovered Lost Continent
Phillip Lopate on Hemingway’s letters : “The publication of Ernest Hemingway’s complete correspondence is shaping up to be an astonishing scholarly achievement. We are already on the third of a projected seventeen volumes, minimum, which will include in their entirety every surviving letter, postcard and telegram sent by Hemingway.
Evolutionary conservation of Ebola virus proteins predicts important functions at residue level.
The recent outbreak of Ebola virus disease resulted in a large number of human deaths. Due to this devastation, the Ebola virus has attracted renewed interest as model for virus evolution.
Top Shelf: Graphic novels and Manga
As the year comes to an end, I’m looking back at some of the comics I’ve read. I never buy individual issues, preferring to wait until they’re collected into graphic novels.