In the last couple weeks the literary world suffered 3 unfortunate, sometimes violent events.
1. Three intruders broke into Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer’s home in South Africa assaulted her, locked her in a storeroom and stole cash and jewelry.
2. Vandals desecrated the grave of Nobel Prize winner Boris Pasternak, covering it in wreathes then setting it on fire.
Lastly, and luckily not as severe unless of course you are the museum’s archivist, the 3rd misfortune and hopefully the one that ends the bad literary juju.
3. The owner of Alex Haley’s original manuscript for “The Autobiography of Malcolm X” is suing a Detroit museum for damage to 15 pp. of the manuscript that occurred while on display. According to the manuscript’s owner the pages have turned from white to a yellowish brown and there are offsetting marks to the pages where the bands held the manuscript open.
Orhan lock your door!