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After a two-year struggle--during which the Government Department voted to tenure Doris Kearns Goodwin on the basis of her manuscript and then split its vote when the final product, the bestselling "Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream" appeared--the Harvard Governing Boards resolved the issue temporarily by appointing her to the highly unusual position of professor of Government without tenure...
...Nabokov: "Do you?" Wilson: "What a strange question!" According to Field, the friendship ended in 1954, when Wilson told Nabokov that he strongly disliked Lolita. Nabokov was angered, not because of the criticism (Wilson praised the book in 1971) but because the critic had read only half the manuscript...
Seldom has an anthology of critical essays aroused so much prepublication anxiety as Diana Trilling's We Must March My Darlings. Playwright Lillian Hellman told the New York Times last year she had heard the manuscript contained "a hysterical personal attack on me." Little, Brown, the publisher for both writers, requested the deletion of four passages about Hellman from the Trilling text. When the author refused, the publisher terminated the contract, precipitating a ruckus whose reverberations can still be heard...
...wrote, "but I am bound to say that the 'wasp' chapter doesn't interest me in the least." He found that depicting an insect with a golden wig was "altogether beyond the appliances of art." Reluctantly, Lewis Carroll expunged the episode of the wasp from his manuscript of Through the Looking Glass. For more than a century even scholars assumed that the chapter was lost or destroyed -until 1974, when an inconspicuous entry appeared in the London catalogue of Sotheby Parke Bernet: "Dodgson (C.L.) 'Lewis Carroll.' Galley proofs for a suppressed portion of 'Through...