LA Tax Lawyer By Day, 'Dracula' Editor By Night
A Los Angeles tax attorney by day, Leslie Klinger leaves his entertainment industry clients behind and lives an entirely different life when he goes home at night.
A fan of genre literature, he edits classic books to include references to historic material and explanations of what the author might have meant. And, newly released just in time for Halloween, his annotated version of Bram Stoker’s Dracula is a winner, reports the Wall Street Journal (sub. req.).
Klinger “manages to enliven the experience of reading about the world’s most famous undead white male,” the newspaper reports. “Like a movie studio that adds ‘bonus features’ to a DVD, Norton includes extensive commentaries in The New Annotated Dracula and even offers what appears to be a genuine literary discovery: The volume describes a previously unknown ‘alternate ending’ to the 1897 text.”
The WSJ doesn’t spoil the surprise, however, by revealing what it is.
