According to the AP, the Finca Vigia Foundation is working with Cuba to preserve and digitize papers left by Papa in Cuba after his passing in 1961.
More than 2,000 items have been digitized and sent to the United States. This enhances the collection of 3,000 documents – including a manuscript with an alternate ending to “For Whom the Bell Tolls” as well as corrected proofs of “The Old Man and the Sea” – to include passports showing where the Nobel Prize-winning novelist traveled, as well as personal correspondence.
From the AP:
“…On Monday at the U.S. Capitol, U.S. Rep. James McGovern of Massachusetts and the Boston-based Finca Vigia Foundation announced that 2,000 digital copies of Hemingway papers and materials will be transferred to Boston’s John F. Kennedy Library…”
Ernest Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was a Nobel Prize laureate, author, and adventurer. His writing style continues to be a strong influence many writers, and the adventures he had through two World Wars, in Africa, as an ex-patriate, and as a journalist would become the stuff of legend. Continue reading
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The Integratron is a building – or a ‘device’ – built entirely without nails in Landers, California, near Joshua Tree. It was designed by aeronautic engineer George van Tassel, who finished the main structure in 1959, but left the building unfinished at the time of his death in 1978.
BBC News is reporting that 2012 was a record year for the UK publishing industry.
Overdrive has sent a letter to librarians worldwide inviting them to join a pilot program called “Big Library Read” running from May 15th through June 1st. This unique program allows all participating libraries to feature the Sourcebook title “Four Corners of the Sky” by Michael Malone simultaneously on all of their respective OverDrive homepages at no cost. The book will be accessible to patrons of these libraries simultaneously.