{"id":465,"date":"2009-10-07T14:39:46","date_gmt":"2009-10-07T18:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henryalford.com\/?p=465"},"modified":"2009-10-08T12:49:14","modified_gmt":"2009-10-08T16:49:14","slug":"life-after-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/?p=465","title":{"rendered":"Life After Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had <a href=\"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/?p=440\"><span>a segment on public radio&#8217;s Studio 360<\/span><\/a> this weekend about how the publisher, Scribner, has monkeyed with Ernest Hemingway&#8217;s memoir, <em>A Movable Feast.<\/em> Now <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/public\/article\/SB10001424052970204488304574426921687042050.html\">an article in the Wall Street Journal<\/a> by Alexandra Alter tells us that the world will soon be <em>awash<\/em> in monkey: this fall will see posthumous books by David Foster Wallace, William Styron, Graham Greene, Carl Jung and Kurt Vonnegut.Vintage just published a version of Mary Shelley&#8217;s <em>Frankenstein<\/em> without the editing of her husband, Percy.<\/p>\n<p>The most interesting case is that of <em>The Original of Laura<\/em>, Vladimir Nabokov&#8217;s final book, which he had sketched out on 138 index cards, and which he instructed his family to burn upon his death. Nabokov&#8217;s son Dmitri kept the cards locked in a Swiss bank vault for decades, but last year announced that his father had appeared to him in a vision and told him to &#8220;go ahead and publish.&#8221; So Knopf is publishing the index cards soon; they&#8217;ll be detachable, such that readers can arrange them in whatever order they want. Sacrilege? Tribute? Some argue that if Franz Kafka&#8217;s executor had followed Kafka&#8217;s directive to burn<em> his<\/em> works, we wouldn&#8217;t have <em>The Trial<\/em>, <em>The Castle<\/em>, or <em>Amerika<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a segment on public radio&#8217;s Studio 360 this weekend about how the publisher, Scribner, has monkeyed with Ernest Hemingway&#8217;s memoir, A Movable Feast. Now an article in the Wall Street Journal by Alexandra Alter tells us that the world will soon be awash in monkey: this fall will see posthumous books by David [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=465"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":472,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions\/472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}