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Aug.23.2010
Stieg Larsson: lover reveals why she won't hand over final manuscriptEva Gabrielsson, the lover of the late The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo author Stieg Larsson, has refused to hand over his final unpublished manuscript By Laura Roberts   Swedish journalist and author Stieg Larsson. Stieg...
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Aug.21.2010
E-reading: Revolution in the making or fading fad? By ANNIE HUANG (AP) HSINCHU, Taiwan — The marriage of an American technology firm and a Taiwanese display panel manufacturer has helped make digital reading a prospective challenger to paper as the main medium for transmitting printed information...
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Aug.17.2010
If there were only an app...Milton claimed he was taking direct dictation from God. Pity his daughters who took dictation from Milton. Dictating a MasterpieceThe end of literary transcription.By Amy Rowland More and more writers are using voice recognition software, which is constantly improving...
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Jul.24.2010
Franz Kafka                                                                                                                  Dora Diamant If true, the most intriguing aspect of the possible Kafka manuscripts to be found in the bank vaults, would be those from his last year in Berlin. He lived with...
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Jul.22.2010
Well . . . OK . . .Hmmm - this is a rather cheesy video from the BBC concerning Kafka and his manuscripts(?)and the bank vaults and all that. And poor Max Brod gets another dig (he had an astounding literary career beyond his Kafka devotion). But there is some truth and some fun to it. Just keep...
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Jul.22.2010
Unpublished Franz Kafka story 'discovered' A handwritten story by Franz Kafka that has never been published is understood to be contained in a secret archive of the author's private papers. Adrian Blomfield in Jerusalem Published: 6:28PM BST 21 Jul 2010 Unpublished story discovered among Franz...
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Jul.21.2010
Secrecy surrounds Kafka manuscripts amid ownership row     The original script of "The Trial"   Original manuscripts belonging to German-speaking Jewish author Franz Kafka were extracted Monday from the vault of Swiss bank UBS.  Four safes which held manuscripts and drawings...
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Jul.21.2010
Who is Itta Shedletzky, 'Kafka Specialist'? By Benjamin Ivry A scrum of Israeli lawyers and Swiss bank clerks crowded a Zurich bank vault recently, after a Tel Aviv family court ordered the opening of four safe deposit boxes belonging to the heirs of Max Brod’s secretary containing manuscripts by...
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Jul.21.2010
Fate of Franz Kafka's literary heritage turns into nightmare ruled on by judge • Boxes prised opened but contents remain a secret• Sisters resist move to hand over trove to Israel Kate Connolly in Berlin guardian.co.uk Franz Kafka … ‘the loneliness of being among people’  Photograph: Bettmann/...
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Jul.20.2010
The bitter legacy of Franz Kafka   A milestone has been reached in the battle over the ownership of the author's unpublished papers. Tony Paterson reports   Tuesday, 20 July 2010 HULTON ARCHIVE/GETTY/THREE LIONS/GETTY A photographic portrait of the Prague-born German language writer...