Today in Bookish and Literary History, September 26
1738 Scottish philosopher David Hume enters into a contract to publish the first two volumes of his seminal work " A Treatise of Human Nature " with John Noon in London 1926 JB Fagan's stage drama " And So to Bed ", based on the life of Samuel Pepys, premieres in London 1946 1st edition of The Adventures of Tintin published by Hergé in Le journal de Tintin, continues until June 1993 2023 Black River Orchard by Chuck Wendig A small town is transformed when seven strange trees begin bearing magical apples Finalist for the Locus Award 2023 Undiscovered by Gabriela Wiener Alone in a museum in Paris, Gabriela Wiener confronts her complicated family heritage. She is visiting an exhibition of pre-Columbian artifacts, spoils of European colonialism, many stolen from her homeland of Peru. As she peers at countless sculptures of Indigenous faces, each resembling her own, she sees herself in them—but the man responsible for pillaging them was he...