Word: manuscripts
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...stunning debut by an unpublished author who mailed his manuscript in on spec, Night Fisher candidly exposes the lives of the young and bored in Hawaii. Going to a prep school his single father can't really afford, the lonely Loren Foster tries to keep up with his AP classes but becomes more interested in hanging out with his ne'r-do-well pal and tweaking on crystal meth. While filling the story with atmospheric details like Hawaiian slang ("baku" for meth; "haole" for a non-native), Johnson's remarkably confident artwork drains the lush world of its color, leaving...
...DIED. STANLEY BERENSTAIN, 82, co-author and co-illustrator, with his wife, Jan, of the best-selling children's books that chronicle the everyday travails of the Berenstain Bear family; in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. After the couple submitted a manuscript in 1961 to Random House editor Theodor Geisel?better known as Dr. Seuss?The Big Honey Hunt became the first of some 250 books in the Berenstain Bears series, which have since sold some 300 million copies...
DIED. STANLEY BERENSTAIN, 82, co-author and co-illustrator, with his wife Jan, of the best-selling Berenstain Bears children's books, which chronicle the everyday travails of a family of bears; in Bucks County, Pa. The couple, who met in art school, submitted a manuscript to then Random House editor Theodor Geisel--better known as Dr. Seuss--and The Big Honey Hunt, published in 1962, became the first of some 250 books in a series that has since sold nearly 300 million copies. The bears generated some criticism for stereotypical roles--Mama Bear tends to the cubs, for example...
...Department under the guidance of Visiting Lecturer on African American Studies and on English and American Literature and Language, Jamaica Kincaid. At Harvard, Iweala was a Mellon Mays Scholar, and his thesis won a Hoopes Prize. To his surprise, the thesis turned into a novel after Kincaid gave the manuscript to her literary agent. As Iweala explains in a phone interview, he was first struck by the stories of child soldiers during his senior year in high school when he read an article about Sierra Leone’s conflicts, which inspired a short story. In 2002, as president...
...signs of Venus and Taurus. In the middle of the paper fragment, Venus is depicted playing a lute and sitting on a bull, Taurus; along the bottom border Mars is shown as a warrior, Saturn as an old man, Jupiter as a judge and Mercury as a scribe. Another manuscript illustration from 17th century India, Astrologers Working on a Nativity, shows a procession of musicmakers and gift bearers wending their way through palace walls toward a newborn who would grow up to be the 14th century warrior Tamerlane. In the midst of the busy scene, seven astrologers consult their texts...