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...noise. Yet Hounslow is about to become famous for another, similarly noisy local feature: a violent, hip-hop-infused, South Asian youth culture that is the subject of perhaps the year's most loudly hyped first novel. The talk of last fall's Frankfurt Book Fair, the manuscript was sold after fierce bidding to the British publisher Fourth Estate for a reported $675,000 as part of a two-book deal. That doesn't include translation rights in nearly as many countries as you can fly to from Heathrow. The book's timely title, Londonstani, reflects the public concern - heightened...
...actions. However, this seems to be a matter of scope rather than her Harvard affiliation. The writing and publication of “Opal Mehta” lie entirely beyond the purview of her academic work and therefore beyond the purview of the Ad Board. That she drafted the manuscript in a Lamont carrel is wholly irrelevant...
Ernest Hemingway was so embittered by his experiences in Hollywood that he formulated what might be called Hemingway's Rule for Dealing with the Celluloid Bastards: Drive your car up to the California state line. Take your manuscript out of the car. Make them throw the money across first. Toss them the manuscript, get back in the car and drive back east as fast...
...According to Editor Benjamin L. Purkert ’07, the Gamut got the idea for such an issue from major publications like American Poetry Review and Poetry Magazine. Interested undergraduates looking to be the next big thing in poetry are asked to submit a 10-to-15 page manuscript of original work, which will then be judged for “artistic merit, evocative language, and innovative treatment of image,” according to Purkert. The mag is soliciting writers through ads posted around campus and such unlikely places as the Advocate e-mail list. It seems that...
...collaborator, Andrew Gross, used to run the sports-equipment company Head, but his dream was to write novels, and he couldn't get any traction with publishers. One day he got a call: Patterson had seen his manuscript and wanted to have breakfast. "Basically what he said was, I've got a lot of stories to tell, and nobody has the resources to tell 'em all, and would I like to talk about a project with him?" That was the beginning of a seven-year partnership, a highly educational one for Gross--he jokes that it's the equivalent...