Subject: Re: Idea: Publishing Catcher Album
From: Chris Kubica @Home (@Home)
Date: Sun Jan 28 2001 - 23:12:27 GMT
Whatever you decide to do, the time is now. There will never (probably) be
more public interest and excitement re Salinger/his works than during the
year of the 50th anniversary of Catcher.
I sold my _Letters to Salinger_ partially on this point.
Chris Kubica
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim O'Connor" <oconnort@nyu.edu>
To: <bananafish@roughdraft.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2001 8:57 PM
Subject: Re: Idea: Publishing Catcher Album
> On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 04:27:22PM -0700, Suzanne Morine wrote:
>
> > Also, Bernd wrote something to the effect that there may be problems
with
> > old Salinger opposing such a book. However, I tend to disagree. Salinger
> > seems to dislike people quoting his books and nosing into his life. Or
does
> > it go beyond that? I don't know a lot about him. The album doesn't quote
> > the book or talk about anything very personal about Salinger.
>
> I am not a lawyer or a publisher's rep, but as far as I understand
> copyright law, the author cannot prevent you from discussing his work
> -- particularly if you avoid quoting him, or you quote within the
> guidelines of fair use -- and he has utterly no power to prevent you
> from presenting photographs of New York City, even if they are related
> to scenes in his book.
>
> I would personally lay out a reasonable sum of money for a coffee-table
> book of a CATCHER album, but I admit I'm not the most objective
> book-buyer in the room....
>
> > Any opinions and observations here?
>
> My wife, the literary agent and former editor, suggests that the cost
> of doing a full-color coffee-table book would be prohibitively
> expensive, and that perhaps the only way of offsetting this would be
> to line up a list of "name" authors who might write essays, such as
> Mary Cantwell did in the New York Times several years back about
> "Holden Caulfield's New York." This might make publishers less
> jittery about the expense, but would still make it unlikely that any
> would take the chance, based purely on the risk/reward factor, not
> on anything to do with the merit of the project itself. (Such is the
> way the book industry functions.) She apologizes for casting rain on
> the proverbial parade, but she has pretty good instincts about these
> things.
>
> --tim
>
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