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  • Here’s The Story Behind Alan Moore’s Epic Graphic Novel That Never Was

    The long-rumored “Twilight of The Superheroes” could have been the masterpiece the genre needed

    Nov 17 - Kristopher Jansma
    Unfinished Business Stacked superhero comics

    What We Can—and Can’t—Learn About Louisa May Alcott from Her Teenage Fiction

    Should an unfinished short story by the "Little Women" author, written at age 18, have been left on the library shelf?

    Jun 16 - Kristopher Jansma
    Unfinished Business Black and white illustration of a young woman (Jo March) in 19th-century dress, writing with ink and quill on a piece of paper, surrounded by other scraps of paper

    Why Shirley Jackson Is Everyone’s New Favorite Author

    Talking to Susan Scarf Merrell, whose book inspired the new film "Shirley," about why the author is having such a moment

    Jun 12 - Kristopher Jansma
    Unfinished Business Elizabeth Moss as Shirley Jackson smoking a cigarette

    How Amazon Ruined the Publication of a Secret J.D. Salinger Novel

    "Hapworth 16, 1924" was set to have a zero-fanfare release—until the fledgling e-commerce giant spilled the beans

    Jan 30 - Kristopher Jansma
    Unfinished Business Old Royal typewriter sitting on a windowsill

    Shirley Jackson’s Unfinished Novel Revealed the Truth About Her Marriage

    In her early and late works, the master of horror reflected her feelings about her long, troubled relationship

    Oct 24 - Kristopher Jansma
    Unfinished Business

    Philip K. Dick’s Unfinished Novel Was a Faustian Fever Dream

    The sci-fi author died before he could write "The Owl in Daylight," but he described trippy plot ideas about aliens, music, and Disneyland

    Apr 5 - Kristopher Jansma
    Unfinished Business Cartoonish mural of a sleepy-looking owl

    What Happened to Sylvia Plath’s Lost Novels?

    Plath herself burned one of her unpublished manuscripts, but the other disappeared under mysterious circumstances

    Feb 5 - Kristopher Jansma
    Unfinished Business

    Ralph Ellison’s Unfinished Magnum Opus “Juneteenth” Was 40 Years in the Making

    After an early draft was lost to arson in 1967, the manuscript ballooned to more than 2,000 pages by Ellison’s death in 1994

    Jun 19 - Kristopher Jansma
    Unfinished Business

    Flaubert’s Unfinished Novel Is One Big Middle Finger to Literary Tradition

    France’s premiere realist author left behind a work that feels more like “Waiting for Godot”

    Apr 25 - Kristopher Jansma
    Unfinished Business Flaubert Illustration
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