The Nation, 2 February 1999 BOSTON JOURNALIST Michael Gross attended Stanley Mattson’s Oxbridge C. S.. Lewis conference in 1998, then visited the Wade Center and wrote a 3,000-word article for the 2 February 1999 issue of The Nation (http://www.thenation.com/). He begins and ends in the Sheldonian Theatre. (See John Bremer’s “C. S. Lewis and the Ceremonies of Oxford University” in Read More ›
To a great lady IN THE BODLEIAN LIBRARY there is a copy of the 1950 edition of Dymer with the following inscription to a great poet and dear friend of Lewis on the flyleaf: Ruth Pitter from C. S. Lewis 16 / 10 / 50 Not for your reading, not because I dreamTo pay my debt for the still, ghostly Read More ›
A new kind of evidence has recently come to our attention indicating that The Dark Tower was written by Walter Hooper rather than C. S. Lewis. On the fifth page of the first chapter, the character named Orfieu says to the character named Ransom, “When you get a mental picture of a little boy called Ransom in an English public Read More ›
WE WERE HAVING an extremely quiet Christmas day. Pete and Kathy were unable to fly cross country from New Jersey as hoped. Jon and Jen were heading for the beach in their RV for the weekend. (After a lifetime of Christmases with my mother, the most enthusiastic Christmas grandmother in the world, it was a good idea for Jon to Read More ›
Two letters about Turkish Delight from Joshua Pong, an E-mail friend in Hong Kong: Turkish Delight! I have a buddy, a Chinese who shares with me a deep passion for hiking. We two have tramped the hills of Hong Kong I don’t know how many times over. Yet we still want to do it again during our holidays. He lectures Read More ›
A letter from Christopher Derrick CHRISTOPHER DERRICK’S assessment of the manuscript draft (1965) of Warren Lewis’s Letters of C. S. Lewis (1966) is preserved in the Geoffrey Bles collection of Lewis material in the Bodleian Library, Dep. c. 774. It has proved to be a prescient preview of A. N. Wilson’s 1990 Lewis biography. “Lewis was a great man, with Read More ›
IN 1998 ULSTERMAN David Bleakley published a book titled C. S. Lewis: at Home in Ireland, with a foreword by Walter Hooper. Bleakley includes a letter written by Lewis on 27 December 1955, and accompanies it with this notice: “Copyright (C) 1998 C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd., reproduced by permission of Curtis Brown Group Limited, London.” Walter Hooper’s foreword is Read More ›
LEGACY READER Wendell Wagner has come up with yet another likely influence upon The Dark Tower. In Legacy 70 (Autumn 1996) Wagner (a science fiction buff) reported that whoever wrote The Dark Tower seems to have been consciously or unconsciously influenced by the films “Invaders from Mars” and “La Jetee.” Now he has come across one more: a 1964 movie Read More ›
When I was a student in 1962, I sent CS Lewis a letter about the role of myth in scripture, and got a reply. If anyone is interested, please email me, and I will be glad to send you the text of the letter from Lewis. azwart@durham.net Dear A. Zwart: I hate to rain on this picnic, particularly since I Read More ›
Books are big business. Stephen King commanded a $16 million advance from(British) Viking, then defected to Scribners for more money. Conflicts of interest: HarperCollins owner Murdoch spiked Hong Kong Governor Patten’s book because of his criticism of Beijing because Murdoch was lobbying to expand his STAR-TV satellite network in China. Four of the top seven US publishing houses are now Read More ›