Guardian Unlimited Books | By genre | How much for your notes?:
Our writers are excited. They have thrown down their pencils, head-butted their rubbers and kicked their thesauri out of windows. The calamity is this: writers’ archives are fleeing Blighty to sit in the libraries of universities across the Atlantic.While the University of the Shetland Islands can afford just �1.12 for a Zadie Smith council tax bill - “You’re in band F” - or 40p for a photocopy of Evelyn Waugh’s 1936 tax return - “Is claret de
Good news for both authors and book-lovers that their notes are becoming increasingly valuable.
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Posted by wfzimmerman to What’s New for Book-Lovers at 10/24/2005 08:39:27 AM
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