Paul Anderson is editing a collection of Orwell's Tribune columns, and he's running a weblog about it.
Posted by Ben Brumfield at September 11, 2006 12:31 PMWow, from first mention online to launch party in less than a year. A hat is off to him here, never mind what the book says.
So who's going to the party with the not very much free beer, which at least implies some?
/MB, about 5,000 miles out of town.
Posted by: Martha Bridegam at September 11, 2006 07:15 PMIs there any reason to think that the Tribune book will contain material not in CW?
Posted by: Ben Brumfield at September 12, 2006 05:45 AMBen -- I didn't mean to leave this question hanging but can't answer it adequately. Can only report that the new Davison-edited The Lost Orwell has just one index entry mentioning Tribune and it's a prosaic business letter about a changed book review policy.
Anyone else know?
Posted by: Martha Bridegam at September 13, 2006 04:55 PMThere's nothing in the book that's not in Peter Davison's CWGO: the point of it is to present the Tribune columns in a single volume as a coherent body of work, which has not been done before. I claim no great originality in putting the book together - Bernard Crick suggested it should be done more than 20 years ago - but I hope the introduction, footnotes and biographies of key players on Tribune add something new even for afficianados of Davison's exemplary work.
Posted by: Paul Anderson at September 23, 2006 01:46 PM