Meanwhile Im working on too many book projects. Some time in 2009 I hope to finish my facsimile edition of Tristram Shandy, to be accompanied by a huge bibliography of Sterne studies since 1978. In late October, look for another trade book, now sporting the title The Lexicographers Dilemma: The Evolution of Proper English, from Shakespeare to South Park, from Walker & Co. and already Amazon has a page for it. Ive agreed to edit a collection of essays for Cambridge University Press called Samuel Johnson in Context, about which more later. And my next big research project is a biography of Shakespeare forger William Henry Ireland, which should keep me busy for the next few years.

Website: http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Chron/