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Robert Weil and Star Lawrence Discuss Changes at Norton

Robert Weil has answered some key questions about the recent news that he will be heading the revival of W.W. Norton & Company’s storied literary imprint, Liveright.

First, is he hiring? Yes, “a very small staff.”

Will books still need approval from Norton’s notoriously difficult-to-please editorial board? No, but Liveright will have its own Read More

A Sister’s Angry Letter Unravels Roth Incest Tale

Did the late Henry Roth, like Ira Stigman, his fictional alter ego in the four-volume autobiographical novel Mercy of a Rude Stream , carry on an incestuous relationship with his sister? A newly revealed letter written to Roth by his younger sister, Rose Broder, and a curious contract agreement between the two, may finally help Read More