Tired of new writers? Hungering for more from some of the established greats? Then I’ve got good news for you: William Styron’s got a posthumous “collection of fiction”:http://www.observer.com/2008/media/posthumous-fiction-collection-william-styron-be-published-random-house coming out, which will include a chapter from an unfinished novel. Styron, who died in 2006, is best-known, of course, for “Sophie’s Choice”:http://tinyurl.com/6buy3f and “The Confessions of Nat Turner”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Confessions_of_Nat_Turner_%281967%29 (both controversial when they were published), as well as “Darkness Visible”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darkness_Visible:_A_Memoir_of_Madness, his well-known memoir about his first struggle with major depression.
If you’re a fan, or interested in learning more, check out “his daughter’s memoir”:http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/12/10/071210fa_fact_styron from the December 10, 2007 issue of The New Yorker, Styron’s own New Yorker “essay “:http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1995/09/18/1995_09_18_062_TNY_CARDS_000372118about about being misdiagnosed with syphillis when he was 19, “audio interviews”:http://wiredforbooks.org/williamstyron/ with the author from 1981 and 1982, or this hour-long “video appreciation”:http://www.charlierose.com/shows/2006/11/03/2/an-appreciation-of-author-william-styron of the author and his work that appeared on Charlie Rose.