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...manuscript for Icelandic Legendary Sagas should reach the editor by early next year, the author says...
...York City duplex, no air conditioning. The coolest spot in the place is likely to be the sun-room that opens onto a small terrace. That was where she spent much of the past summer, with its Egyptian heat and rain-forest humidity, penning in revisions on the typed manuscript of her first entirely new book in a decade...
Originally commissioned by Simon & Schuster, the manuscript of Fit to Print was rejected there and at a number of other top publishing houses. Goulden, author of 15 other books, including the 1972 best seller The Superlawyers, ultimately turned to Lyle Stuart, an imprint with a reputation for taking chances. Stuart claims that Simon & Schuster backed away because the book is too hard hitting and would offend the proprietors of the country's most influential book review. Not true, says Simon & Schuster; Goulden's work simply fell below its standards...
Funded by two Radcliffe grants totalling $1800, Finn examined a manuscript collection of documents from the 17th century in the London British Museum. She was also the first student to make use of some historical papers on medieval Ireland in the Jesuit Archives in Dublin, Ireland. In addition, she utilized Trinity College in Dublin and the National Library of Ireland, and viewed documentaries on the Irish television network RTE (Radio Television Eyre...
...response, Zuckerman takes a dim view of such passages: "Look, anything is better than My Ex-Wife the Bitch -- I just cannot read that stuff." Other complaints pour forth: "This manuscript is steeped in the nice-guy side . . . Where's the anger . . . And where's the hubris, by the way?" The answer, of course, is that they are all here, if not conveyed by Roth directly then underlined afterward by his fictional counterpart. Despite its sincere attempt to set the record straight, The Facts inevitably shades into fiction. Roth is worth reading not for what happened...