Interview with Wendell Berry

Diane Rehm interviews one of our favorite authors, Wendell Berry. He talks about farming and a recently published book of poetry.

Interview with John Irving

Here's an interesting interview with the novelist John Irving. He talks about how he writes.

January Club selection: The Woman in White

Experience what it was like to read a serialized novel, to be left in suspense for a week until the next installment. One hundred and fifty years after its first publication, The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins is being published once more in its original, weekly parts. Three parts have now been published. You can even see images of the original periodical pages.
 
The story first appeared as a serial in Charles Dickens's periodical All The Year Round beginning with the issue dated Saturday 26 November 1859 and ending with the issue dated Saturday 25 August 1860. The story was published simultaneously in New York in Harper's Weekly.

The first part of the reprint was available on Monday 23 November 2009 and the last will be on Sunday 22 August 2010, in the morning UK time. (The day changes because of the Leap Year in 1860.) The parts are e-texted with all faults exactly as printed.
 
A separate pdf is also published each week which captures the feel of the original in a more readable form. It can be read on-screen or printed out. Or you can subscribe free to receive it week by week in your in-box by emailing Paul Lewis. Access it all through The Woman in White web page.