Next Jan Morris Book to Come ‘From the Grave’
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 03.21.08 | 11:23 AM ET
We won’t get to see Jan Morris’ last book until she passes away. It will be called “Allegorizings,” and it’s already finished—except for one chapter. The legendary 82-year-old writer told Publishers Weekly that the book revisits her “lifetime’s preoccupations—place and animals and all the things that have interested me. ... But, of course, I’m also looking back at them from a peculiar vantage point. There is a theme, which I suppose may remind the audience that even the most superficial writers can have a thread of more serious philosophical thoughts going through your mind.”
In the meantime, Morris continues to write. Earlier this month in the New York Times, she reviewed the novel The Lost City by poet and travel writer, Henry Shukman.
Thanks for the tip, Kelly.
Related on World Hum:
* Jan Morris in Berlin: ‘Ooh, That’s Nice!’
* World Hum’s Best Travel Books, No. 24: “Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere” by Jan Morris
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
