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...seems that this thriller writer is not trying to put anything over on anybody. Two years ago, he announced on the jacket of his first book, The Godwulf Manuscript, that he had written his doctoral dissertation on Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. Both of Robert Parker's novels, about a private eye known simply as Spenser, are filled with echoes of the masters. But Parker is really not a pirate. Instead, he resembles film makers like Jean-Luc Godard, who pay homage to great directors of the past with little vignettes so blatantly similar in style that no aficionado...
...Hemingway's permission is required to see any of the material, except selected documents for which she gave a blanket release. These include the pencil manuscript of the draft conclusion of "A Farewell to Arms," and a typewritten draft with ink corrections and inserts, of the foreword to the Fitzgerald section of "A Moveable Feast...
...problem with his outpouring of legal prose. His handbook on impeachment, published last summer, has already sold 24,000 copies and is still going strong. W.W. Norton snapped up his newest book, on capital punishment, and rushed it into print just five weeks after getting the manuscript in September. Early next year, Yale University Press will publish a dialogue between Black and his childhood friend, Texas Congressman Bob Eckhardt, on the Constitution in the modern age. Any author would be gratified by such receptivity, but Black is a bit frustrated. No one seems to want to print his second volume...
...Irvings have not settled all their differences, Clifford has managed to bury at least one hatchet in Ibiza-with Elmyr de Hory, 63, the master art forger. The subject of Irving's 1969 book called Fake!, De Hory was offended when Irving failed to show him the prepublication manuscript as promised...
...author, editor, columnist and diplomatic historian, he lectured statesmen and private citizens for 60 years. Although he relinquished his syndicated column Today and Tomorrow in 1967, he remained a close observer of world events. When he died last week at 85, he left the unfinished manuscript of his 27th book. Its working title, The Ungovernability of Man, reflected another, different 18th century strain in his character, an occasional Swiftian despair at the aberrations of the "minor Dark Age" into which he had been born...