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• New York Public Library Acquires E. Annie Proulx Archive
3 Nov 2009 at 7:00pm
The New York Public Library just acquired treasure trove of research notes, book drafts and other materials belonging to novelist E. Annie Proulx, author of The Shipping News.
The trove, housed in the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, includes:
* 200 pages of short stories, essays, poems and screenplays
* 145 pages of preparatory notes and research
* 10,200+ pages of typescript
* 2100 galley proofs
* 4500+ pages of correspondence
"To me there is an odd sense of balance that material dealing with some of the most rural landscapes in North America will reside in our major city," Proulx commented.
The author noted that she wanted to donate the archive for several reasons. There is insight into the creative process, to be sure. But she says that the letters, emails, and financial reports will help shed light on this era of American publishing and literature to future historians. She also said that
"We are currently undergoing major changes in the way we regard intellectual property and literary work; some of anxieties of that metamorphosis are reflected in my archive."
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• Washinton Post Newsroom Erupts With Fistfight
2 Nov 2009 at 3:25pm
Things are tough in the newspaper industry. Falling circulation, layoffs, drops in ad revenue have taken their toll as tempers fray. And now the newsroom at The Washington Post has erupted into fisticuffs.
Politico reports:
Washington Post executive editor Marcus Brauchli found himself in the middle of an altercation Friday evening between Style reporter Manuel Roig-Franzia and editor Henry Allen, but will not say whether the two have been reprimanded by the paper.
"We take this incident seriously and will address it appropriately," Brauchli told POLITICO, declining to comment further.
Reports that Allen punched Roig-Franzia surfaced Monday morning on FishbowlDC, Washingtonian and City Paper (which reported Brauchli was traveling).
Multiple Post sources independently confirmed to POLITICO that Roig-Franzia got hit while defending colleague Monica Hesse from harsh criticism leveled by her editor, Allen.
Allen, according to the Washingtonian, had told Hesse that a piece she had written was "the second worst story I have seen in Style in 43 years."
Roig-Franzia, also working a story with Hesse that ran Saturday, told Allen not to be such a "c-sucker."... ( cont'd )
• Cuba Giving Copies of Hemingway Documents to Kennedy Library
30 Oct 2009 at 12:37pm
The Kennedy Library in Boston will be getting copies of a number of Ernest Hemingway's papers from the government of Cuba.
The Boston Globe reported that Cuba's Ministry of Culture had given the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum copies of 3,000 letters and documents Hemingway amassed during his years in Cuba, from 1939 to 1960. Among the documents are corrected proofs of "The Old Man and the Sea" and an alternate ending to "For Whom the Bell Tolls" (The Globe report did not say what that ending was), as well as correspondence with Robert Capa, Marlene Dietrich, Sinclair Lewis, Lillian Ross, Ingrid Bergman and various members of his family. The library is already home to the Hemingway Archive and the Hemingway Room, which was dedicated in 1980, and includes relics like a lion-skin throw rug, journals of his fishing trips and shrapnel from wounds he suffered during World War I.
Copies are better than nothing at all, but you just know they wish they could get their hands on the originals. But those aren't leaving Cuba anytime soon.
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• Ang Lee to Direct Film Version of Life of Pi
28 Oct 2009 at 7:00pm
Director Ang Lee says that he has finally gotten a first draft of the screenplay for the film version of Yann Martel's 2002 Man Booker prize-winning novel Life of Pi.
The film rights were sold almost a decade ago, but no one could figure out how to film a book about a boy and a tiger adrift at sea. But it's really happening this time, and Ang Lee is ready to roll.
Martel's acclaimed novel chronicles the travails of a shipwrecked teenage boy stuck on a life raft with only a female orangutan, injured zebra, hungry hyena and brooding Bengal tiger for company. In recent years the likes of M. Night Shyamalan, Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Alfonso Cuaron have all been attached at one time or another to the project, but none has managed to get a movie into production.
Lee told the Digital Spy website his version was still at the scripting stage and he had not yet begun to think about casting.
"I'm delivering the first draft," he said. "I think I've cracked the structure of the movie and I'll figure out how to do it later.
"How exactly I'm going to do it, I don't know - A little boy adrift at sea with a tiger. It's a hard one to crack!"
Lee said the film would mo... ( cont'd )
• Alice Munro Reveals Cancer Battle
26 Oct 2009 at 7:00pm
At a literary event in Toronto, Man Booker Prize-winning Canadian author Alice Munro revealed
that she has been battling cancer. She also has had heart bypass surgery. But she says she feels she's been lucky with her health, because of the availability of treatments she has had access to.
Munro, 78, who earlier this year was named the third recipient of the prestigious Man Booker International Prize, honouring her life's work, briefly alluded to her health Wednesday night at a sold-out literary event in Toronto.
In an on-stage conversation with fellow author Diana Athill, Munro said she's had heart bypass surgery and "just had cancer."
Still, Munro said she's "been lucky with her health," unlike her mother, who was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease at a relatively young age and died in her late 50s.
"I think some of us are much luckier than others in life," she said. "I think we are lucky now in the kind of medical intervention that keeps us going."
Alice said that things had changed quite a bit for Canadian authors. She said that when she started writing she was told that no one wanted to hear Canadian authors talk in their own voices. She noted t... ( cont'd )
• Chinese Authors Oppose Google Digitzation Plan
22 Oct 2009 at 1:13pm
A group of Chinese authors are angry and accusing Google of digitizing their books without permission or payment. The authors' right group says that Google has violated their copyrights, which Google denies. Google says it has complied with international law.
The China Written Works Copyright Society (CWWCS) believes Google scanned thousands of books, by over 500 Chinese authors, into its digital library without their permission or compensation, said spokesman Chen Qirong.
"Whether you are a small company or big company you still need to respect the copyright of the authors," Chen said.
Google countered by saying it had received permission from over 50 Chinese publishers who allowed the U.S. search giant to digitize more than 30,000 books to be found through Internet searches and for preview.
"We believe the book search complies with international copyright law," said Google spokeswoman Courtney Hohne.
Google.com, Gmail and other Google services are not currently available in much of China because the government says Google spreads obscene content over the Internet. Meanwhile, the Chinese government does virtually nothing to stop the theft of non-Chi... ( cont'd )
• Mexico's Secret Service: Gabriel Garcia Marquez Was a Cuban Spy
21 Oct 2009 at 3:24pm
Uncovered records reveal that Columbian author and Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez was spied on for decades by the Mexican intelligence agency DFS, which is now defunct. The DFS, which was roughly equivalent to the CIA, considered Garcia Marquez to be a Cuban agent.
The defunct DFS agency bugged the Nobel laureate's phone and monitored his movements from 1967 after he moved to Mexico with his family. The authorities suspected the Colombian author of One Hundred Years of Solitude because of his leftist sympathies and friendship with Fidel Castro. Declassified documents published in the newspaper El Universal revealed the DSF kept a bulging file at least up until 1985, after which documents remain secret. It was era of the "dirty war" waged by rightwing Latin American governments against suspected subversives.
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The agency closely monitored the author's mediation between leftist movements and the French president, Francois Miterrand. It also kept tabs on Mexican writers such as Octavio Paz, who won the Nobel prize in 1990, and Salvador Novo.
The declassified information contains a wiretapped conversation between Garcia Marquez and Jorge Timoss... ( cont'd )
• Patricia Cornwell Suing Financial Advisors Over $40 Million Loss
20 Oct 2009 at 1:00pm
Bestselling author Patricia Cornwell is suing
her financial advisors and accountants for negligence. She has lost $40 million during the time her financial affairs were handled by the New York financial management firm, Anchin, Block & Anchin LLP which also represents such celebrities as Robert DeNiro. Patricia made the fatal error of allowing someone else access to her checkbook. Lloyd Grove of The Daily Beast reports:
"Ms. Cornwell is a bestselling crime novelist whose ability to write is dependent upon the ability to avoid distractions," the lawsuit contends. "A quiet, uninterrupted environment, free of the distractions of managing her business and her assets, was essential to her ability to write and to meet her deadlines. Further, Ms. Cornwell openly acknowledges her diagnosis with a mood disorder known as bipolar disorder, which, although controlled without medication, has contributed to her belief that it is prudent for her to employ others to manage her business affairs."
Cornwell's lawyer told me she ruefully recalls a conversation she had several years ago with Oprah Winfrey, when both found themselves sitting together on a dais. "They were ... ( cont'd )
• Furious Row at Frankfort Book Fair May Lead to EU Being Dropped From Google Book Settlement
19 Oct 2009 at 7:00pm
Due to massive resistance to the Google Book Settlement in Europe, all European Union books might be entirely left out
from the deal, according to The Bookseller. The whole thing came to a head at the Frankfurt Book Fair last week when a furious fight arose over the the Settlement.
According to various reports Professor Roland Reuss, a literature professor from Germany's Heidelberg University, struck out at Google and the Settlement, negotiated in the US by the Association of American Publishers, and the US Authors Guild with Google. He described Google's lofty ideals as "just a whole garbage of hysterical propaganda", and warned of a threat to traditional publishing, saying "you revolutionize the market but the cost is that the producers of goods in this market will be demolished".
Reuss then rounded on Bertelsmann's Richard Sarnoff, who negotiated the deal as chair of the AAP, calling him "naive" and arguing that the deal disregarded the Berne Convention, and the rights of copyright holders to determine how their work was used. According to Publishers Weekly, Sarnoff said the parties to the deal did not anticipate the backlash in Europe. And he add... ( cont'd )
• Win an Emmy, Then Get Fired
16 Oct 2009 at 1:44pm
Kater Gordon, the writer's assistant turned writer, won an Emmy for the last episode of last season's Mad Men. She was like the show's own Peggy Olson, the girl who rose through the ranks to win an
Emmy. So then why was she fired by Matt Weiner the show's creator and the man who was forced to share an Emmy with her? Nikki Finke had some nonsense about how Matt liked to encourage young writers and that he felt she had gone as far as she could and it was time for new writers. Others told her Kater quit before she could be fired.
I've learned that writer's assistant-turned-staff writer, Robin Veith, quit Mad Men before she could be let go by Matthew Weiner.
A source tells me: "It was at the very worst mutual. She needed to move on and see how she would do after leaving the nest. Matt is a genius, and he gave lots of people an opportunity, but never let's anyone forget it. I'm sure he'd never tell anyone she quit, because that is a rejection of him. Anyway, they are friends and made a mutual decision."
A show insider replies, "There are staffing changes every season. It is the nature of television shows to fine tune. Why is it news this season?" Because t... ( cont'd )
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