NEW YORK — It was the stuff of novels: For years, a con artist plagued the publishing industry, impersonating editors and agents to pull off hundreds of literary heists. In an emotional, four-page letter to Judge Colleen McMahon submitted earlier this month, Bernardini apologized for what he characterized as his “egregious, stupid and wrong” actions. In a novelistic twist of …
Surprising secrets of writers’ first book drafts What is revealed by the early manuscripts of classic novels? SP Books The notebooks in which Proust hand-wrote his masterpiece In Search of Lost Time are full of the author’s revealing notes The manuscripts of literary works-in-progress fascinate on many levels, from the flush-faced thrill of spying on something intensely private and the …
