Round-Up: Ancient Egyptian Stories, Tom Hanks, and Walt Whitman
From newly translated ancient Egyptian stories to Walt Whitman’s lost novel, here’s the latest literary news.
Penguin classics
“A Ripple Effect that Turned into a Tidal Wave”: The Journey of a Discarded Book
One day eighteen years ago, a senior colleague at the small South Carolina college where I taught found more than $300,000 worth of stripped Penguin paperbacks at a local thrift shop. Other than the piece of each cover that had been sliced off, the books were in excellent condition, but the prison to which they…