Word: manuscript
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...conversation stirs because in his latest crime novel, Comeback (Mysterious Press; 292 pages; $18), Westlake has reached high on his shelf to blow the dust off a memorable badman. About 35 years ago, at the beginning of his career, he turned in a manuscript starring an armed robber named Parker. That was it; if Parker had a first name, you didn't want to get close enough to know it. He was tough, mean and distinctly unfunny; a sullen bad guy who drank whiskey, smoked cigarettes and cuffed both men and women around. Parker got caught...
...American publishing circles, adjectives like "controversial" and "thought-provoking" are compliments, especially when they refer to the works of a foreign novelist forced to self-publish, or to tell her story abroad. In Singapore, when the same adjectives are affixed to a manuscript, its chances of publication are zero to none...
...certain degree, this is the problem which confronts the Westernized, tabloid-hardened reader of Catherine Lim's The Bondmaid, a novel which hits American bookstores this month. Lim, a best-selling author in Singapore for years, saw her latest manuscript rejected by every major publishing house at home before publishing it herself. Deemed objectionable and too "adult" by mainstream literary houses, the book promptly hit the top of Singapore's bestseller lists, leading to publication and distribution rights abroad...
...attorney won a discovery motion to get all transcripts, notes and computer disks used for Eisner's book that pertain to his client, but so far those materials have not turned up. A Disney spokesperson denies any link between the delay and the suit, adding that despite word the manuscript has been completed, Eisner's book is "still a work in progress...
Recently asked to review a manuscript by Honig that was submitted to Princeton University Press, Gutmann gave a generally favorable recommendation of the book--which was accepted for publication--but did not express commensurate support for Honig's tenure nomination in a recommendation to Harvard. Though the two positions are not mutually exclusive, some speculated that outside influence altered her opinion of Honig...