Dead Men Tell No Tales?

Isaac Fitzgerald bio ↓  ·  September 28th, 2009  ·  filed under books

Kurt Vonnegut, C.G. Jung, William Styron, and Michael Crichton all have books coming out in the next few months. They’re also all dead.

From Vladimir Nabokov to David Foster Wallace, Alexandra Alter takes a look at the “new wave of posthumous books by iconic authors” and the “debate over how publishers should handle fragmentary literary remains” in her essay “Ghost Writers.” (via The Book Bench)

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Isaac Fitzgerald has been a firefighter, worked on a boat, and been given a sword by a king, thereby accomplishing three out of five of his childhood goals by the age of 25. He has also written for AlterNet, McSweeney's, and Mother Jones. He is the managing editor of The Rumpus. Follow him on Twitter. More from this author →

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