Apologies for not posting more lately!

I am happy to report, however, that during the last three months’ hiatus I’ve been busy working on the longer-term version (and vision) of this project. I’ve been developing the draft manuscript that will, with luck, someday become a full-length book. This work has been concentrated mostly within my week-long research visits to the Houghton Library and the Harvard University Library system in general since July of last year. With those resources and the (so far) three weeks of dedicated time for reading, outlining, and writing, I feel confident that I am now well on my way.

If you’ve missed my posts on the American Library Association’s Intellectual Freedom Blog related to the first two of these trips, see July’s here and October’s here. The post for my most recent trip, January 20-27, 2019, will be posted shortly at the same location (see my Instagram account linked above for a few photos and notes). My final week at Harvard will most likely take place this upcoming May or June.

As a bit of a preview, below is an outline of the annotated bibliography section of my current draft outline — the “Bibliography of the Damned” itself. These 46 author entries correspond with four chronological categories…with a twist for the fifth that you’ll have to wait for the book to find out the meaning of. Mystery!

Also: This outline is subject to change.

Part III: A Bibliography of the Damned

1. Circa 1600 to 1700
   • BRUNO, Giordano
   • COPERNICUS, Nicolaus (Micołaj Kopernik)
   • DELLON, Charles
   • DESCARTES, René
   • GALILEO Galilei
   • HOBBES, Thomas
   • KEPLER, Johannes
   • SPINOZA, Baruch (Benedictus de)
   • PERKINS, William
   • WILKINS, John
2. 1700 to 1800
   • DARWIN, Erasmus
   • DIDEROT, Denis
   • ENGEL, Samuel
   • GIBBON, Edward
   • KANT, Emmanuel
   • MANDEVILLE, Bernard
   • MIDDLETON, Conyers
   • “PARKER” [Anonymous]
   • ROUSSEAU, Jean-Jacques
   • VOLTAIRE (François-Marie Arouet)
3. 1800 to 1900
   • CASANOVA (Giacomo Girolamo Casanova de Seignault)
   • CIOCCI, Raffaele
   • FLAUBERT, Gustave
   • HUGO, Victor
   • MORGAN, Lady Sydney Owenson
   • RICHMOND, Legh
   • SAND, George (Amandine Lucile Aurore Dupin)
   • STENDHAL (Marie-Henri Beyle)
   • VÉRICOUR, Louis
   • WHATELY, Richard
4. 1900 to 1966
   • BEAUVOIR, Simone de
   • DELLHORA, Guillermo
   • HOUTIN, Albert
   • KAZANTZAKIS, Nikos
   • ROSENBERG, Alfred
   • SARTRE, Jean-Paul
   • STEINMANN, Jean
   • STROOTHENKE, Wolfgang
   • SULLIVAN, William Lawrence
   • UNAMUNO, Miguel de
5. Works out of Time
   • DANTE Alighieri
   • JULIANUS AUGUSTUS, Flavius Claudius (Julian the Apostate)
   • LUCRETIUS (Titus Lucretius Carus)
   • LUTHER, Martin
   • MERLIN (the Wizard)
   • TACITUS, Publius Cornelius