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...likes sudden beginnings: "The day before yesterday a close friend of mine killed himself by blowing his brains out." He describes Albrecht Durer's view of the Apocalypse as the day when "the sun would go out, and the heavens would be rolled up and put away like a manuscript." He reports that the mosques of Istanbul are "the colour of ripe honeydew melons." He encapsulates a special quality in Bonnard's art by calling it "an art about cultivating one's own garden...
...wrote the critic Maxwell Geismar, "Getting very big but I cut the hell out of it periodically." Just how big became the concern of Scribners Editor Tom Jenks, 35, who got the job of salvaging a 247-page novel out of 1,500 pages of manuscript. "Editing Hemingway was like wrestling with a god," says the amiable Virginian. What Jenks does not say is that the rules of the game require that the god must look like the winner. The Garden of Eden is, after all, what publicity departments call a publishing event. Interviews and appearances are planned for Jenks...
SINCE ACCEPTING TENURE here, Southern has written three books and is finishing a fourth. She praises the Harvard environment as one conducive to, and providing materials for, dedicated scholarship. Her publications include The Buxheim Organ Book (1963), Anonymous Pieces in the Manuscript El Escorial (1981), The Music of Black Americans: A History (2nd ed. 1983), and Biographical Dictionary of Afro-American and African Musicians (1982). She is also the co-founder and editor, with her husband, of the journal "The Black Perspective in Music," which boasts a 1000-person circulation reaching scholars from America to China to Africa...
...substance that the pre-publication clause is standard, being designed to insure that no classified materal is revealed, but since the research covered by the contract is entirely based on open sources, approval of publication can be expected. There is nothing in the contract about editing or censoring the manuscript. This is precisely what happened as the Dean's report confirmed...
Most of the high-priced lots consisted of dinners, artwork, trips, and jewelry, but a few items garnered special interest. The highest price paid last night was $6600 for an original 11-page shortstory manuscript by bestselling author Stephen King, bid by an agent for a future pop culture museum. One woman paid $3500 for the privilege of being included in the next "Spenser" mystery novel by Cambridge resident Robert B. Parker...