7 Famous Lost Literary Works

          By Jason Diamond on Nov 19, 2013 - Flavorwire

On this day in 1956, while visiting the Ritz Hotel in Paris, Ernest Hemingway was alerted by the staff that he’d had two trunks stored there since the 1920s, and if he didn’t claim them, they’d be tossed in the trash. Hemingway was surprised when he claimed the luggage and found lost manuscripts and notes, some of which would eventually make up A Moveable Feast, one of the most famous literary memoirs ever. … Read More

Why Is Anjelica Huston’s Biography So Unsatisfying?

By Michelle Dean on Nov 19, 2013 - Flavorwire

It is interesting to think about what the blogosphere, in the post-Lena-Dunham age, would have made of someone like Anjelica Huston. Charges of “nepotism” are now often made against the children of stars and various Hollywood power moguls. In Dunham’s case, they’re slightly incorrect, as her parents were well-regarded artists, a social position more inflated by status than actual money. But Anjelica Huston was born into money as well as status, and tons of it. Her new memoir, A Story Lately Told, makes that clear, at least. … Read More