Word: manuscript
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...also had to finish your manuscript about a week before it was due in order to give it to the typist to handle it. That was a terrific nuisance," Mansfield says...
...Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris were a literary love match of nearly mythic proportions. Married since 1981, they were best-selling and award-winning authors who were raising six children together; they gave interview upon interview describing how they critiqued each other's work, never allowing a single manuscript to leave their home without, as Dorris once put it, "consensus on every word." While some authors vary the dedications in their books, ticking off family and friends as the years go by, for Erdrich and Dorris, it seemed, there was only one Muse--the other. "To Michael, Complice in every...
...terrorized us, you made us walk on eggshells, we feared you, and then Louise comes onto the picture. Instead of stopping his abuse, she kicks in." He blamed his own troubles with the law on having been abused and demanded $15,000 from Erdrich and help publishing a manuscript. "Very simple, people, you owe me!" he wrote. "You owe me a childhood, you owe me a life...
...success of unhappy stories by the largely or completely unknown is a new and, to many, puzzling phenomenon. Publishers aren't worrying much about why such stuff sells so well; they're too busy trying to acquire and peddle more of it. A ferocious bidding war erupted over the manuscript of a 98-year-old Kansas grandmother that tells of her harsh life with an alcoholic husband; the eventual winning bid topped $1 million...
...think the main issue is that the library is in a state of change between being essentially a book and manuscript collection to being...a collection and a technological vehicle...