Posted by TayariJones on March 20, 2007 07:59 AM
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The Writing Life
A 89-year old Dutch woman, while spring cleaning, ran across a novel she had written an forgotten about. I guess this is the charming antidote to all those horror stories you hear about writers losing manuscripts in fires and floods.
Larry Brown's last novel has been published posthumously. The editors didn't try to finish it for him, they just included, at the end, Brown's own notes of ways he might have finished it. I understand the impulse to publish something like this. But at the same time, I don't think I will read it. Writers, in life, are so particular about their works in progress; I'd be uneasy looking at something I am sure he would not have wanted me to see.
It turns out that horror writer, "Joe Hill", is really the son of Stephen King. Apparently, he kept his identity under wraps to see if he could make it without his pedigree. I think that is very sweet. And a little naive to think that privilege lies only in name recognition.
Hugh Grant must be reading from the same playbook. He's writing a novel, which will be submitted anonymously, so that he can be treated objectively. If course, we have to wonder will be try to keep his identity secret when he is trying to market it.
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