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...techniques as an acceptable means to an end. "You can't blame someone for earning a living with their talent," says Bob Adorni. Or can you? "People say I've sold out," says Kinkade. "But not reproducing my art would be like telling a writer not to publish a manuscript because it's one of a kind...
...journal apparently with less forbidding standards, will finally unveil "Lucas Beauchamp." The Review, published by the University of Virginia, where Faulkner was a writer-in-residence, inherited the story from the Rev. Patrick Samway, a former literary editor of a Jesuit magazine. Samway got a copy of the manuscript in 1975 but rediscovered it only earlier this year while cleaning out his files. "It seems strange that no one published it," Samway said. "But it wasn't until 1950 when he won the Nobel Prize that [Faulkner's] star rose." One wonders if the editors fared as well...
That is how he appears in the opening pages of True at First Light, which his second son Patrick, in the introduction, says he whittled down from a 200,000-word manuscript to a book roughly half as long. Even after such radical surgery, the thing seems interminable...
...standards, and certainly by Hemingway's, True at First Light is a pretty bad piece of work. But its publication will do no harm to his reputation. In fact, the appearance of this book underscores Hemingway's courage as a writer. By the time he began working on this manuscript, he had received all the honors--a Pulitzer Prize in 1953, the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954--and all the fame that any author could desire. But his body had been battered by injuries and his brain by alcohol, and the "one true sentence" that he said would...
Gibbs's thesis on medieval French literature involved translating a 15th century manuscript for which no English translation existed...