In the rush to get your book to press, our president Marjorie Ross has asked me to take over the final edit of Unfit for Command. We’re very high on the book’s prospects to be ...

The other is J.P. Donleavy’s “The Unexpurgated Code” (1975). Its title is less so. Donleavy’s book is a sendup of the form that happens to be, possibly, the funniest book ever written.

READERS of the recently published "unexpurgated" autobiography of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, are seldom moved to say "Tell us what you really think, Clemens". "Easy does ...

The "Unexpurgated Code," as you can see, doesn't have a villain in the conventional, organic, literary sense. The book is ostensibly a manual of - as one book chapter heading put it - "useful ...

104 years ago, when he was 70 years old, Mark Twain began dictating his autobiography to a stenographer. He finished shortly before his death on April 21, 1910. The finished manuscript came in at ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Letter news every morning. Sir, I was surprised that Cameron Crowe’s comedy classic Fast Times At Ridgemont High did not get a ...