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When, 18 years ago, I was writing 2001: A Space Odyssey, the original artifact was a messy manuscript, which had at least been touched by human hand. What's the going rate in the rare-book trade for Odyssey II-a 5-in. diskette (single side, soft sector, single density, reinforced hole ...)? Until I know, I won't press the erase button...
...cash "getting rid of the cookies." Convicted of tax evasion. Given year's probation. Now lives in tiny town of Day (pop. 656) in woods of northern New York. Hunts, fishes, raises chickens ("Just for eggs-I never eat my chickens"). Seeking publisher for 367-page ghostwritten manuscript called Tony U: A Private Investigator. "I was 53 when Watergate broke," he laments. "Now I'm 63 and broke...
...work went on and eventually produced sound, if unspectacular, results. They are available to Libary of America editions. Many texts have been purged of errors that crept into them over years of reprintings. Some have grown. One research team found and restored 36,000 words excised from the manuscript of Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie; a forthcoming edition of Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage adds 5,000 words that were cut before publication. When the Library of America. gets around to Crane (spring 1984) and Dreiser, editors will have to decide whether such additions constitute...
...seems remarkable that such a cohesive collection of poems was released after Wright's death--however, it is worth nothing that the manuscript was virtually complete when he died in 1980. The poems seem to have been written by someone who knew he would die, but they convey an appreciation of life that is at once quiet and fierce, a rare zeal that comes only from knowing life well...
...Currently, the odds are against its ever getting to a sound stage. Says Willie Hunt, vice president of production at United Artists, "Everybody's trying to figure out what the 15-to 25-year-olds are going to see. You're not going to find that in manuscript form...