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Secret Lives of Great Authors

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Strange-but-true tales of murderers, adulterers, drug addicts, and other literary legends.

With outrageous and uncensored profiles of everyone from William Shakespeare to Thomas Pynchon, Secret Lives of Great Authors tackles all the tough questions your high school teachers were afraid to ask: What’s the deal with Lewis Carroll and little girls? Is it true that J. D. Sal...more

Paperback, 304 pages

Published February 1st 2008 by Quirk Books

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May 26, 2008 Jodi rated it 4 of 5 stars

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Secret Lives of Great Authors is the kind of book that you should read in the company of others. It’s filled with odd bits of trivia that you want to share with someone the instant you read them, and without sharing the trivia seems to fly right out of your head.

I was going to come here and write all kinds of witty little things about all the secrets that I learned while reading the book and it seems that I have forgotten a lot of them. The overall impression that I got from this book is that wr...more

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Apr 01, 2012 Raquel Curvacheiro rated it 4 of 5 stars

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Feb 03, 2011 Nousha rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Тъй като в своите почти 300 страници побира кратка биография и любопитни случки за над 40 хора на перото, не може да се очаква някаква задълбоченост и изчерпателност. "Жълта" по съществото си, тази книга обаче е написана изключително добронамерено и с приятно чувство за хумор и въпреки че се рекламира като разкриваща мръсни тайни и скандални подробности, тя по-скоро изброявя странностите и чудатостите на бележити автори, с което ги прави да изглеждат по-човешки и определено постига една от целит...more Тъй като в своите почти 300 страници побира кратка биография и любопитни случки за над 40 хора на перото, не може да се очаква някаква задълбоченост и изчерпателност. "Жълта" по съществото си, тази книга обаче е написана изключително добронамерено и с приятно чувство за хумор и въпреки че се рекламира като разкриваща мръсни тайни и скандални подробности, тя по-скоро изброявя странностите и чудатостите на бележити автори, с което ги прави да изглеждат по-човешки и определено постига една от целите си - да предизвика любопитство. Което пък - поне при мен - води до запознаване с творчеството на тоз-онзи, който съм пропуснала да изчета. Оставам с много положителна нагласа към книжлето, което не ме обогатява с информацията, която съдържа, но обогати библиотеката ми с някой и друг автор, а и ме накара да прочета по-задълбочено за живота му (й).
Българското издание има известни пропуски - преводът става, всеки прави грешки, но при наличието на редактор да се остави в крайния вариант на книгата изречение като "Грета Блох, която твърди години по-късно, че Кафка е баща на детето на любовта й"... Недопустимо е да не се провери и как се изписва на български името на Едуард Олби, изключително ме дразни, когато "Врява и безумство" се нарича "Шум и ярост". Най-странно за мен е, че навсякъде из книгата авторът е посочен като Робърт Шанкенбърг, вместо Шнакенбърг. Не говори добре.
Последно, на места има нужда от бележки под линия.
Като изключим това, книгата се чете лесно и бързо.(less)

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May 12, 2009 Madeline rated it 4 of 5 stars

Entertaining and highly educational. If you've ever thought to yourself, "hey, I wonder how many famous authors had really freaky sex lives?" (answer: a lot) then this is the book for you.
Here's some other useful tidbits of information I learned from this book, all of which I'll be sure to bring up in every English class I ever take from now on:

-Lord Byron kept snippets of his girlfriends' pubic hair in envelopes. And he had a lot of girlfriends (250 in Venice in one year alone).
-The Bronte si...more Entertaining and highly educational. If you've ever thought to yourself, "hey, I wonder how many famous authors had really freaky sex lives?" (answer: a lot) then this is the book for you.
Here's some other useful tidbits of information I learned from this book, all of which I'll be sure to bring up in every English class I ever take from now on:

-Lord Byron kept snippets of his girlfriends' pubic hair in envelopes. And he had a lot of girlfriends (250 in Venice in one year alone).
-The Bronte sisters grew up in a house surrounded on three sides by graveyards.
-Henry David Thoreau invented raisin bread.
-Louisa May Alcott was an opium addict.
-Mark Twain started smoking at age eight and continued to smoke between twenty and forty cigars a day until his death.
-Both Oscar Wilde and Ernest Hemingway's mothers dressed their respective sons in girls' clothing for most of their childhoods.
-H.G. Wells wrote his own epitaph: "God damn you all, I told you so."
-Gertrude Stein referred to orgasms as "cows."
-When Virginia Woolf was a child, she got slapped in the face by Rodin because she looked at one of his unfinished sculptures.
-Kafka spent time at a nudist health spa, where he became known as "the man in the swimming trunks."
-When a hedgehog got caught in Agatha Christie's tennis nets, she chloroformed it by herself and set it free.
-J.R.R. Tolkien invented fourteen languages, each with their own alphabet.
-At a party, F. Scott Fitzgerald went around collecting guests' watches and jewelry. He then boiled everything in a pot of tomato soup.
-Ayn Rand described Charlie's Angels as "the only romantic show on television today."
-In a speech in 1990, Kurt Vonnegut said that he owed the sucess of his career to the firebombing at Dresden, where 25,000 to 250,000 people died. "I got about five dollars for each corpse, counting my fee tonight," he said. Awkward.
-After working as an editor for nineteen years, Toni Morrisson still reads the paper with a red pencil so she can copyedit it.
-Sylvia Plath took an IQ test in 1944, and scored a genius-level 166.
-Dylan Thomas's last words were, "I just had eighteen straight scotches. I think that's the record...After thirty-nine years, this is all I've done."
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Feb 06, 2013 Débora rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Não pretendia ler este livro tão cedo. Eu comprei mais por uma curiosidade literário do que por qualquer outra coisa (e nem esta uma pechincha tão boa também, uns 20 reais). Mas em vista do tema de Fevereiro no Desafio Literário resolvi tirar ele da minha estante para dar uma olhada. Eis o que achei sobre o livro.
O livro em si é uma reunião de curiosidades sobre grandes autores da literatura mundial - fatos escusos da vida de cada um deles reunidos pelo escritor de quadrinhos Robert Schnakenberg...more Não pretendia ler este livro tão cedo. Eu comprei mais por uma curiosidade literário do que por qualquer outra coisa (e nem esta uma pechincha tão boa também, uns 20 reais). Mas em vista do tema de Fevereiro no Desafio Literário resolvi tirar ele da minha estante para dar uma olhada. Eis o que achei sobre o livro.
O livro em si é uma reunião de curiosidades sobre grandes autores da literatura mundial - fatos escusos da vida de cada um deles reunidos pelo escritor de quadrinhos Robert Schnakenberg e ilustrado pelo desenhista e caricaturista gaúcho Alan Sieber. Na Introdução, o autor nos conta que o livro serve para desmitificar a imagem dos grandes poetas da humanidade como modelos de virtude a serem seguidos. e que ele pretende contar todos os seus podres, que os professores quiseram esconder da gente durante toda a nossa vida colegial.
Literatura mundial, em partes, porque os escritores tratados no livro são todos oriundos da Europa e dos Estados Unidos. E dos 32 autores tratados neste livro, somente 5 são mulheres (com um capítulo único para as irmãs Brontë) e há apenas um negro.
A organização do livro é a seguinte. Há uma página de rosto com a ficha do autor na abertura de cada capítulo com data de nascimento e morte, nacionalidade, signo, principais obras, autores contemporâneos e uma breve definição de seu estilo literário. Por exemplo, ele definiu o estilo de Shakespeare como: ricamente poético, entremeado de trocadilhos libertinos e espirituosos. E por fim, uma frase atribuída ao autor.
Esta é a abertura de cada capítulo. Depois temos breve relato biográfico da personalidade, e pequenos quadros mostrando curiosidades da vida deles e relatos de muitas vidas desregradas.
Minha admiração sobre alguns artistas, tanto por sua obra quanto por sua vida particulares, sempre partiu de que para ter um conceito elevado comigo eles tinham que ser bons tanto na arte quanto na vida. E ser bom não em termos cristãos de castidade, e sem abuso de álcool (destes eu sempre tive certeza, que os grandes artistas sempre tiveram aos montes e em quantidades exacerbadas até para o mais porra louca de nós humildes mortais). Mas o respeito aos credos, raças, gêneros, opções sexuais, enfim, à toda a diversidade humana de pensamento e modos de vida existentes.
Mas nenhuma admiração pelo imenso valor artístico que estes autores legaram ao mundo, vai impedir ou esconder alguns defeitos de caráter. Que Virginia Woolf era anti-semita, Sylvia Plath odiava os homens, William Shakespeare era um sovina, Jack London era racista, James Joyce e William Faulkner eram pedantes autoconfiantes, Hemingway era um tremendo machista que vestia roupas de mulher quando ninguém estava olhando, etc. E que inúmeros deles eram alcoólatras inveterados, drogados e adúlteros. E que muitos sofreram com doenças horríveis acarretadas por seus vícios, e muitos tiverem mortes mais horríveis ainda.
Mas, mesmo assim, conhecendo isto, não diminui nem acrescenta na admiração que eu tinha por muito deles deles. E com certeza, não decresce nem um pouco o seu valor literário.
O livro traz relatos muito breves e superficiais sobre a vida destes artistas, é claro. Mas é surpreendentemente bem escrito, com uma linguagem leve e bem humorada. Só fiquei triste porque o trabalho de revisão falhou, pois em várias partes do livro encontrei erros bobos de digitação como "certa vez" escrito certa fez. Coisas bobas assim.
As caricaturas de Sieber são uma atração à parte. Valem muito a pena. São engraçadíssimas e casam muito bem com os relatos contados. Tem uma pra cada autor.
Mas aconselho não ler o livro todo de uma vez como fiz. Deixe-o na sua estante, e quando pintar alguma dúvida sobre a vida do autor de algum livro que você esteja lendo de Fitzgerald, Lord Byron, Whitman ou Mark Twain use-o como uma das fontes de pesquisa de curiosidades.

resenha originalmente publicada em: www.estranhomundinhoinsano.blogspot.com (less)

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Oct 29, 2010 Chibineko rated it 3 of 5 stars

I picked this up the other day & I've been enjoying it ever since. The layout of each chapter being a different author or set of authors is nice, since it makes for a good bathroom book or a nice book to read before you go to sleep. I'm not sure if all of the facts are true (as said by one of the other reviewers), but they make for good reading.

My only complaint is that the book is set up very strangely. The book's pages are rather thick & stiff, which puts me at constant fear of the sp...more

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Jan 27, 2011 Chetecut rated it 3 of 5 stars

"Тайният живот на великите автори" е една забавна книжка с много добри комиксови илюстрации. Върши страхотна работа за запълване на свободното време - казва по нещо ново и естествено повтаря вече казани неща. Авторът не е известен в България, но като че ли не е такъв и в чужбина. Естествено това няма никакво значение, защото книгата не претендира нито да е много сериозна, нито съвсем достоверна и все пак е поднесена отчасти във формата на енциклопедия, но с чувство за хумор. Още на http://chetec ...more

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Jul 03, 2009 Lis rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: library

The snarky tone is a bit off-putting--don't read the section titles, in particular! The Jack Kerouac entry is a long list of bad riffs on "On the Road"--the best being "On the Right" about Kerouac's conservative leanings. However, I was searching for inaccuracies, and the only one I could find was the misnaming of Otto Plath as a respected etymologist rather than an entomologist (he was an expert on bees).

Some authors I wish this had covered: Vladimir Nabokov, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, E...more

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Aug 27, 2012 jennifer rated it 4 of 5 stars

After a brief bio and explanation of why an author became famous, or even, iconic, their chapter is broken up into smaller sections of juicy gossip involving serious character flaws, kinks, scandals or just the unearthing of little-known facts. Who knew that Oscar Wilde's teeth were black due to mercury treatment, that H.G. Wells met and liked Stalin or that Tolkien was known around Oxford for trying to force other cars off the road? And Agatha Christie's father was American, which is something...more

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Jul 30, 2012 Kristen rated it 3 of 5 stars

If you like knowing about the faults and foibles of your favourite famous author, this may be the book for you. Each short chapter focuses on one well-known author and details the weird and wonky things they were or did.

From sexual pecadillos, to drug addictions, don't let anyone tell you that writers from the past were paragons of virtue, and some of the stuff may surprise you if you thought otherwise.

This is an easy read full of off-beat sound-bites of information. If, however, you revere your...more

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Oct 16, 2010 Simay rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: non-fiction

If you're a literary nerd, this book is definitely for you. Beware, though, because if you already like to do research about authors like myself, there will be things in here that you already know. Having said that, there are also things that I've never heard of before. It's such a quick read where you can read one author's story, put the book down and then pick it up again later. Insightful and humorous, it reminded me that my favorite authors have flaws (some of which are BIG!), but it just ma...more

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Oct 17, 2010 Bistra Ivanova rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: abandoned, nonfiction

Още корицата крещи с таблоидност, но реших да се пробвам: мръсните и странни тайни на около 30 велики писатели - Оскар Уайлд, Джойс, Силвия Плат, Кафка, Сартр, Айн Ранд, Торо, Уитман, Луис Карол, Емили Дикенс, Керуак, Бъроуз, Вирджиния Улф, Хемингуей, Дикенс, Едгар Алън По... Кой си пиел урината, кой тайно бил гей, кой носел женски гащички, кой взимал наркотици... А трябваше да бъде забавно...

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Mar 11, 2012 Iroquois rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: adult-nonfiction, short-stories-essays-anthologies, graphic-novel, humor, historical

A collection of brief bios on some of the most well-known authors, with humorous and oddball factoids being the main draw. Format is in style somewhat like a graphic novel, with color boxes breaking pages up into sections and cartoonish likenesses of the authors on the main author intro page for each. It's a quick read and while I did find some of the info entertaining it wasn't the best quirky bios collection I've read. High School English classes would probably enjoy it their teachers read the...more

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Dec 30, 2011 Avery rated it 3 of 5 stars

Livros como este provam que o culto às celebridades pode não estar totalmente reduzido àquele grupo de pessoas com o QI abaixo da temperatura ambiente. Neste caso, a fofoca torna-se interessante por ser reveladora de conteúdos literários brilhantes. Embora escandalosos, perturbadores, bizarros, traumáticos.

Dos filhos ilegítimos de Shakespeare à concupiscência de Lord Byron; do glutão Balzac ao gótico Allan Poe; das excênctricas irmãs Brontë ao nacionalista Walt Whitman, tudo o que você não prec...more

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Jun 18, 2012 Thebruce1314 rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: biographical-stuffs, books-i-gots, historical-stuffs

An entertaining look at the lives of several authors. I have to take some of the stories with a grain of salt: the book claims that Mark Twain delivered a speech on "breaking wind" to an audience that included Queen Elizabeth I. That might be difficult with over 200 years separating them - I assume the author meant the Queen Mother? In any case, it was a quick read, to be picked up and put down at will. Unfortunately, despite the humourous treatment, many of the stories are quite sad and I'm sur...more

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May 12, 2008 Matt rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: essays-lectures, reviewed

delicious fun for a literary junkie as myself.

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Nov 23, 2010 Jennie rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: trashed-it

I don't recommend reading this book straight through. It's interesting if taken in bits and pieces (one or two stories at a time, then go to something else), but if you read it all at once, all of the drug abuse/rampant alcoholism/promiscuity/madness/all of the above starts to run together into a big mess, and the authors are actually pretty hard to tell apart. In fact, the oddest authors in this book are the tiny handful who don't have a history of any of the above - I wondered if those few wer...more

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Apr 04, 2013 Dorottya Bacsi rated it 5 of 5 stars

It was what I was expecting - facts about authors' lives in a light, funny manner; interesting side stories and tidbits that our literary textbooks won't mention :). I also liked the unconventional design of the book, but sometimes I felt as if the color in it was too much, and it would have been even cooler if the book kept with the real newspaper theme that is kind of implied on the cover. But that's a little nitpicking. It's a nice, funny read, I laughed out loud quite a lot of times while re...more

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Dec 10, 2011 Madeleine rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: head-in-the-clouds-nose-in-a-book, let-us-now-speak-of-great-men, mmxi, our-libeary

I've been needing something light and entertaining, and this proved to be a nearly perfect break from the long-term (but so far still worth it!) undertaking that is "Gravity's Rainbow." My dwindling sanity was grateful for a quick and easy read that didn't require running to the internet every fifteen lines to decode another reference to obscure '40s pop culture.

"Secret Lives" gets major points for illuminating the less savory and just plain weird personality quirks/flaws of a host of writers w...more I've been needing something light and entertaining, and this proved to be a nearly perfect break from the long-term (but so far still worth it!) undertaking that is "Gravity's Rainbow." My dwindling sanity was grateful for a quick and easy read that didn't require running to the internet every fifteen lines to decode another reference to obscure '40s pop culture.

"Secret Lives" gets major points for illuminating the less savory and just plain weird personality quirks/flaws of a host of writers with whom I have some kind of familiarity. Getting the sometime-salacious skinny on the creative forces behind many works I've read and mostly enjoyed was especially gratifying when it came to the writers I "know." This being the year that I fell hard for Vonnegut, finally understood the big deal about Sartre, and tackled a Pynchon novel that's neither his latest nor his shortest work made the final third of this book a thing that the literary fangirl in me found truly, nerdishly gratifying.

Unfortunately, my internal editor couldn't get past the sloppy editing. Yes, I'm being nitpicky but the proliferation of just-frequent-enough-to-be-jarring spelling and typographical errors (my job has instilled in me a knack for honing in on missing spaces after punctuation, which had my professional side freaking the hell out -- and that's most assuredly not a thing I welcome during my weekends) flat-out bugged me. The appearance of rudimentary gaffs like "comprised of" and "added bonus" forced audible, involuntary groans from places I didn't know could wield a red pen. Like, to the point that it seriously hindered my enjoyment from an otherwise deviantly delightful read.

Also -- and I blame this on having a lot of damn fine teachers and professors over the course of my literary education and pursuit of an English degree -- I actually knew a lot of the details highlighted here, though, admittedly, the book did flesh out such dirty little secrets to a much fuller extent than my previous knowledge. That actually did turn out to be more of a plus, though mostly because it validated my education in ways I've been missing lately. And because I feel a certain kinship of entitlement for anyone who has ever hummed the "Gilliagn's Island" theme while reading the poems of Emily Dickinson.

My biggest issue? You can't -- you just can't -- include a likeness of Ayn Rand without her money pin and pretend that it's okay. Stuff like that just sticks in my craw, yo.(less)

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Jun 21, 2009 Juré Fiorillo rated it 5 of 5 stars

I love this book. Who knew that Papa Hemingway wore frilly underpants? Or that Louisa May Alcott was a druggie? Bob Schnakenberg gives us all the dirt in "Secret Lives." This book has it all: drugs, sex, cross-dressing, violence, urine drinking—-you name it. Schnakenberg, a friend, as well as a very funny fellow, was even kind enough to give me a shout out on the copyright page, thereby earning my eternal loyalty.

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Feb 03, 2013 Cristina rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2013

No sé si este libro está en español, pero como la mayoría de los reviews que hay están en inglés pues alegría española para el cuerpo.

Tengo que reconocer que este libro es como leer el ¡Hola!, sólo que en vez de personajillos que no han hecho gran cosa por su vida se trata de escritores famosos que en teoría tienen cierto renombre (porque había muchos que no me sonaban de nada. Especialmente los más actuales).

La edición del libro es muy guay. Está totalmente ilustrada por dentro, con una minif...more

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Feb 12, 2009 Jason Kurtz rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: non-fiction, writing-reference

This is a book that is right up my literary alley. This collection of vignettes about famous authors is just the type of trivia that one loves to drag out at parties... "Hey, did you know that Kafka used to love to go to the nude spa, but then never would take his clothes off?" or "Man, that Lord Byron was sure a Man-whore!" Hilarious and educational reading here...

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Sep 28, 2011 Brandi rated it 4 of 5 stars

Awesome reference books for readers who are nosy enough to want to know about the genius behind some of the best literary works in history. Of course, their histories might be a bit skewed by the opinion of the author but all history books are skewed. I picked it up on clearance at HPB. Not a bad deal.

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Jul 13, 2010 Anna rated it 5 of 5 stars

This book is awesome. its super interesting and you'll be so surprised by what you've read. its strange how almost all these authors were either creeps, perverts, addicts, criminals,homosexuals, or all of the above. its a very good read and it digs into the facts behind the stories and their lives

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Apr 09, 2010 Kelsey Jo rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: own

Normally I don't review books I didn't finish, but this one I will. It's a quick read, one of those books that you can pick up, read a section and put it back down. It's humorous and insightful. But most importantly, it reminds you that our favorite authors were flawed people too.

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Dec 29, 2010 Петко Циков rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

ситурно е достоверна. Причина? Защото, ,,тайният" им живот не е толкова шокиращ... Освен Уилям Бъроуз!!!! Поздрав!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Pfd3O... - Бъроуз и Кобейн...

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Apr 10, 2011 Judith rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: favorites

I'm adding this guy to my list of favorite authors. What a book for English majors!
We revere these men and women but forget that they were human before becoming
heavyweight authors. What better way to remember that than by sharing juicy gossip.

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Dec 14, 2012 Liiii-chan rated it 3 of 5 stars

This is basically the perfect thing to read on the bus or between classes. About 3 pages dedicated to each author, a really quick, light and fun read. My only complain is that there aren't any spanish writers,but I enjoyed it a great deal.

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Feb 21, 2009 Jennifer rated it 4 of 5 stars

Great tabloid-esque look at the weirder side of the authors we know and love. Plus, you get to feel studious and cultured, as you read all of the great trashy facts - like how JD Salinger drank his own pee. Good stuff!

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Aug 16, 2012 Denise rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: favorites

Suuuuuúper divertido. Es como prensa rosa pero de escritores famosos. Una lástima que esté tan centrado en el mundo anglosajón, pero qué gozada de libro. Perfecto para leer a ratos, en verano, al lado (o dentro) de una piscina.

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В Ню Йорк шест хиляди стоят и чакат на пристанището да пристигнат последните глави от "Старият антикварен магазин" през 1841г. "Умира ли малката Нел?" - крещят те на моряците от приближаващия се параход ...” — 2 people liked it

“Морисън е прочута с навика си да изпраща чекове за малки суми на изгряващи автори, придружени от бележка, че са спечелили несъществуваща стипендия, за да продължат работата си.” — 1 person liked it

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