Subject: Re: Request
From: citycabn (citycabn@gateway.net)
Date: Tue Mar 21 2000 - 16:23:19 EST
From: Tim O'Connor <tim@roughdraft.org>
>
>I don't have it at hand (it's at home), but it is reprinted in Fiction
>Writer's Handbook, by the Burnetts. It's on amazon.com if you search by
>title. The jacket is not the same as mine (I have the first printing of
>the first edition), but I'd be startled if JDS's bit had been removed.
>
Tim,
Many thanks for the information and trouble to reply. You know, _I_
wouldn't be startled if the JDS bit is _not_ there. Depends on copyright, I
assume. Did it become theirs or the publishers or remain _his_?
I get the sense anything OUT HERE and not IN THERE (in those four slim
angels of books fluttering about) is being retrieved and retrieved pronto.
(Let's not forget that website with the 22 Stories disappearing and one
might cite the nonappearance of _Hapworth_. And am I crazy thinking I read
somewhere that JDS had asked his agent D. Olding to destroy hundreds of
letters he wrote her over the decades?) I guess I'm just ruminating that
JDS is trying to clean things up before, well before, who knows.
Maybe he'll surprise us this decade: republish the 21 Stories; then
republish _Hapworth_ together with that original story Buddy was working on
when The Letter arrived. Now those would make a nice fifth and sixth to add
to the four. Even open that room-size vault and invite us all in for the
publication parties.
But seriously, back to the text: I've never read it. I've been thinking
about JDS's two Glass dust jacket blurbs, "the author writes". I want to
zero in on the voice of those two statements and compare it to the voice of
the Burnett piece.
--Bruce
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