Re: Stories

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On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, Matt Kozusko wrote:

> I think the stories in question are the literally "unpublished" ones.  The
> _Ney Yorker_ stories are generally available on microfilm, but there are a
> few stories that never hit the press.  A magazine bought one and never
> printed it; others were written and...well, not published.  Christmas
> presents to Whit Burnet, maybe.  The details are available in Hamilton's
> biography.  Princeton has at least one ("An Ocean of Bowling Balls," I
> think) secured in a safe somewhere.

thank you for clearing that up for me. i was getting quite befuddled,
unpublished, underpublished... yikes!

i went to the much valued salinger encyclopaedia on the web to find more
info...

http://slf.gweep.net/~sfoskett/jds/stories/unpublished.html

intruiging altogether...

what puzzles me though, is why aren't the magazines who bought stories
doing anything with the? how does copyright law work? if a magazine bought
a story four decades ago, or are they befeared  held of mr. ober and co?
can
they do whatever they want with the material and they just choose not to
(and if so, why?) or are they being held ransom by salinger and his
lawyers?

                                         :helena kim

                     helena at netsoc dot tcd dot ie
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         the bar is far, but i will walk carefully.'
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