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Worldcrunch Editor Jeff Israely To Discuss Future Of International News At ASERL Event

Worldcrunch Editor Jeff Israely To Discuss Future Of International News At ASERL Event

Worldcrunch co-founder and editor-in-chief Jeff Israely will discuss the changing landscape of international news in a digital "fireside chat" on Feb. 2 hosted by the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL)

Research libraries serve a community that by its very nature is international, both because the areas of research and the scholars themselves inevitably cross borders. Beyond the specifics of their individual research interests, this community longs to be plugged into the world at large: understanding the broader issues of a globalized world, from politics to economics, science and technology, social and environmental issues and the widest range of ideas and viewpoints.

Darrell Gunter, EVP, CCO of Worldcrunch, will interview Jeff Israely, a former TIME magazine foreign correspondent, about how international journalism has been changing over the past decade to meet new technological and societal demands. As the founder of the Paris-based digital news outlet Worldcrunch, he has his finger on the pulse of the changes in the industry and the changing nature of an increasingly globalized and digitally-driven readership.

ASERL brings together leaders from research libraries in the region to foster a high standard of library excellence through professional development, inter-institutional resource sharing, and other important collaborations. For more than 65 years, ASERL has been a trusted home for numerous innovative programs and events that provide tremendous benefit to our membership.

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Shame On The García Márquez Heirs — Cashing In On The "Scraps" Of A Legend

A decision to publish a sketchy manuscript as a posthumous novel by the late Gabriel García Márquez would have horrified Colombia's Nobel laureate, given his painstaking devotion to the precision of the written word.

Photo of a window with a sticker of the face of Gabriel Garcia Marquez with butterfly notes at Guadalajara's International Book Fair.

Poster of Gabriel Garcia Marquez at Guadalajara's International Book Fair.

Juan David Torres Duarte

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BOGOTÁ — When a writer dies, there are several ways of administering the literary estate, depending on the ambitions of the heirs. One is to exercise a millimetric check on any use or edition of the author's works, in the manner of James Joyce's nephew, Stephen, who inherited his literary rights. He refused to let even academic papers quote from Joyce's landmark novel, Ulysses.

Or, you continue to publish the works, making small additions to their corpus, as with Italo Calvino, Samuel Beckett and Clarice Lispector, or none at all, which will probably happen with Milan Kundera and Cormac McCarthy.

Another way is to seek out every scrap of paper the author left and every little word that was jotted down — on a piece of cloth, say — and drip-feed them to publishers every two to three years with great pomp and publicity, to revive the writer's renown.

This has happened with the Argentine Julio Cortázar (who seems to have sold more books dead than alive), the French author Albert Camus (now with 200 volumes of personal and unfinished works) and with the Chilean author Roberto Bolaño. The latter's posthumous oeuvre is so abundant I am starting to wonder if his heirs haven't hired a ghost writer — typing and smoking away in some bedsit in Barcelona — to churn out "newly discovered" works.

Which group, I wonder, will our late, great novelist Gabriel García Márquez fit into?

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