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...young man, J. Bryan III learned a great secret from Sherlock Holmes: the world's first consulting detective kept a "commonplace book," a volume in which he set down observations and literary snippets for future reference. That discovery prompted Bryan, 82, a veteran U.S. magazine editor and author -- his memoir, Merry Gentlemen (and One Lady), was published last year -- to compile a commonplace book of his own. In less skillful hands, the rubber , cement would have shown through. Hodgepodge, happily, is a literate, lifelong miscellany, illuminated with flashes of comedy...
...that she's had a taste of the writer's life, Carol Burnett is planning a second book, this time with her daughter Carrie Hamilton as co-author. Burnett's first volume began three years ago as a missive to her three children, but after 100 pages "it began to look more like a book than a letter." Now a best seller, One More Time chronicles her sometimes difficult Los Angeles upbringing and concludes with Burnett landing her first big-time job. "It's not a show-business book," cautions the author. "It's an inventory -- my take on growing...
...that read well on the page wouldn't play well." The motivating greed that drives the plot wound up being shifted from real estate to cocaine, and some of the gorier scenes were muted. "A horror film has to be delicate or it becomes a butcher shop," explains the author. There was also a larger difference. "When you're a novelist, it's all yours and your relation to the work is husband, father, grandfather and slave all in one. A movie director is directly the opposite: you're living out in the world...
...tributes to writers and testaments to their careers rather than displays of new works or directions. And that would certainly appear to be the case with Wright Morris' Collected Stories, 1948-1986. Morris is, after all, one of the most distinguished and honored living American men of letters, author of 19 novels (including Love Among the Cannibals and The World in the Attic), five books of his own photographs and texts, four collections of essays and three volumes of memoirs...
Surely Morris, 76, deserves to be honored with an assembly of his short fiction? Indeed he does, the only teeny little catch being that the author's extensive bibliography includes just one book of stories, Real Losses, Imaginary Gains (1976). Yet more has gone on here than gathering the contents of one volume into another: of the 26 pieces in Collected Stories, 14 have never before been published between hard covers, and eleven of these were written during the past six years...