Well, it was saved here, in a manner of speaking. Following my page 3 report in the Times on 22 December, which revealed how the Library of Congress had effectively abolished Scottish literature, this Saturday the Times published the follow-up: in the face of fierce opposition from Scotland, the Library of Congress had backed down on its proposal to abolish around 40 category headings and sub-headings.
This story ran as the page one splash in the Scottish edition of Times, with a page five lead. This is the link to the Times splash in Scotland which ran on an inside page of the national edition.
Times splash
I also wrote up a piece for the Washington Post, which appears in today's edition. You can read it here:
Washington Post
The story in the entry below is the long Page 5 piece from the Times Scottish edition.
The original Times story, which revealed the Library of Congress decision to abandon its Scottish literature headings is here:
Scottish authors are 'English'
The excellent illustration above is by Jonathan Williams, and is used as the cover for Scotland's Books, Robert Crawford's history of Scottish literature, published by Penguin. I will issue a beer token to the first person to name all the pictured writers. For more of Jonathan's work, go here:
Blazing fruit
