Literature Resources & News

Tuesday, August 30, 2005

New Books by UB's English Faculty


Feature of the Month:

Natural Born Celebrities: Serial Killers in American Culture by David Schmid

To read more about Schmid's book, go to UB News Direct

A copy is available in Lockwood Library. Check the UB Bison catalog for details!






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Wednesday, August 17, 2005

First-edition copy of 'Great Gatsby' found

A first-edition copy of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Jazz Age novel "The Great Gatsby" sat in a box of unsorted volumes at Baldwin's Book Barn for almost two months before it was noticed, and now the bookseller hopes it will bring more than $50,000. See WashingtonPost.com for more details.

Thursday, August 04, 2005

NY Times - Critic's Notebook

Check out the NY Times Book Review for a look at wartime fiction. Novels discussed in the August 3rd Critic's Notebook include: Saturday by Ian McEwan; Incendiary by Chris Cleave; Specimen Days by Michael Cunningham and The Ministry of Fear by Graham Greene http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/e-resources/nytimes.html.