Temperature by F. Scott Fitzgerald: 8000-word short story, written in 1939, features a hard-drinking writer who has a heart problem. Just a year after he wrote it Fitzgerald died of a heart attack. Found among his collection at Princeton, his alma mater, it was published in The Strand, a British literary magazine that has been around since the late 1800's.
What Pet Shall I Get? by Dr. Seuss: Discovered by his widow in 2013, published by Random House in 2015. It is believed to have been written between 1958 and 1962. It features the same brother-and-sister characters found in the 1960 bestseller One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish.
The Field of Honor by Edith Wharton: Nine-page short story found among the author's archive at Yale. It centers on WWI and is critical of the women who only superficially helped with the war effort.
Poetical Essay on the Existing State of Thing by Percy Bysshe Shelley: Written under A Gentleman of Oxford when the author was a freshman in 1810/11, it was not attributed to him until 50 years after his death. Believed lost forever, a copy was found amidst a private collection and offered for auction. 172-lines, 20-pages, the pamphlet is critical of the Napoleonic wars. It was purchased by the Bodleian Library in Oxford, adding to its world-famous collection of Shelley works and papers, the twelfth millionth book it acquired. It is available online for all to read.
The Early Stories of Truman Capote: Found among the author's papers at the New York Public Library, they were written before he reached the age of 20. While four had been published in The Green Witch literary magazine, the rest were new to the public. Penguin released them in 2015.
Will the fact that Donald Trump has received a clean bill of health physically and mentally stop the all out assault on the President by the mainstream media? Yeah, right. He's 71 and his BP is 122/74 - without medication! Great genes.
From Yahoo's Odd News: The American Meteor Society suggests a space rock penetrated deep into the Earth's atmosphere before breaking apart. The U.S. Geological Service says it registered as a 2.0 magnitude earthquake in Michigan. Residents reported their homes shaking. Here's a pic:
The floating book shop was snowed-out today. Fortunately, none of the white stuff stuck to the ground in Brooklyn. Back in business manana.
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