Siegfried Sassoon’s Notebooks

I recently noticed this story about Siegfried Sassoon’s notebooks being archived at Cambridge University. Sassoon was a poet who refused to return to fight after being wounded in World War I. (Read Pat Barker’s novel Regeneration for an interesting perspective on his story.) The archive contains, among other things “Sassoon’s journals [and]  pocket notebooks compiled [...]

Annie Leibovitz’s Financial Meltdown: Notebooks Partially to Blame

You’d have to be living under a rock not to have heard the news that celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz is broke. But here’s a new detail: she spent a lot of money on expensive notebooks! When [Leibovitz's daughter] Sarah started eating solid food, a rigorous journaling policy was instituted, in which every bite and bowel [...]