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...story to be published by a major U.S. magazine, appeared in the Atlantic in 1927-after Cosmopolitan, the Saturday Evening Post, Collier's and Scribner's had turned it down. Unwilling to rely solely on the editorial vision of literary agents, the Atlantic carefully read every unsolicited manuscript, a habit that persists to this day. "We publish more unsolicited material than any other national periodical," says Weeks...
...years, he poured his time and best efforts into this one novel. But he was so entangled with the book that he could never bring himself to stop revising, adding, "perfecting." He refused to let it out of his hands. Only with his death, in 1962, could the manuscript be prepared for the printer. The process required drastic editorial surgery: the present book represents about one-third of the manuscript Farrell left...
...PLAY OF HEROD (2 LPs; Decca) is a 12th century music drama reconstructed from a manuscript belonging to the French Benedictine monastery of Fleury. It begins with the archangel's announcement of the birth of Christ and ends when the holy family returns to Galilee after the slaying of the innocents. With its chanted Latin lines, the music sounds strange to 20th century ears-and might seem a trifle odd to medieval ghosts as well, for although the melodies were clearly indicated, rhythms and instruments were not. Scholars aided by a grant from the Ford Foundation prepared the work...
...written out his frustrations in a 1,500-page manuscript. Beneath the Underdog, as the book is tentatively titled, deals with racial discrimination, God, yoga, the jazz life, government subsidies, gangsters, sex, Charlie Parker, extrasensory perception, personal hardships and crises when, as Mingus puts it, "everything turns white for me." A former mental patient at Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital, Mingus tells anyone willing to listen: "They say I'm crazy, and I really...
...shown the manuscript to a number of fellow priests before deciding to publish it. "Pass it around; it is excellent," they had said after reading...