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...resulting narrative, which appears in this issue, was edited by Assistant Managing Editor Ronald Kriss, who also excerpted White's 1978 book In Search of History for TIME. Reporter-Researcher Peggy Berman, who checked the independently verifiable material in the manuscript, had also worked with White on the earlier excerpts. Says Kriss: "White has a keen sense of drama and a great fascination with place. It is a pleasure to have his work in TIME once again...
...Swinging Sixties, which got their early momentum in London, swept her out of style. It was not until 1977, when both Poet Philip Larkin and Biographer Lord David Cecil mentioned her in a Times Literary Supplement survey of unjustly neglected writers, that anyone cared to deal with a Pym manuscript. But Larkin and Cecil, literary mandarins though they were, turned out to have their fingers on the public pulse. Before she died, at 66, more than two years ago, Barbara Pym had again become fashionable. Today all ten of her novels are selling well in hardback and paper editions, especially...
...these general difficulties and a few specific ones as well. Virgil's Aeneid is one of the two or three most influential texts in Western literature, yet it achieved such eminence in part through an accident of history. Latin retreated to monasteries and survived the Dark Ages in manuscript, while Greek was largely forgotten...
Deep in the desk of every hardbitten, wisecracking, deadline-haunted reporter, alongside the bourbon and the Maalox, is an unfinished novel. Typically, the manuscript is not about great events but about what is truly important to the journalistic fraternity: sex, office politics, money, fame and lunch. That, at least, is the message of these three novels by and about newspaper reporters...
Artin said Faltings' findings pushed his own work back a month because he "put everything aside to read this manuscript...