“Anticipation follows event”
— Robert Coover
Although they lived in the same city and saw one another quite often, the need to correspond was so urgent that he sent his daughter letters at least twice a week. He preferred writing because unlike phone conversation where a monologue can easily slip into dialogue, the uninterrupted form of communication was too enticing to give up. She found the letters frustrating, desultory, maniacal, and frightfully mad. For a man who had coined the phrase “organization beats merit!” his letters were aimless wanderings, intent on reaching a finite point and yet they made no point at all. She was alarmed enough to wonder if all this was a sign of early dementia.”
And so when on Sunday evening she received his text message, “Mail, pls,” she opened her email without hesitation:
What is your book deal?
You understand that it is a pitch. Marketing. Publishing is a business. They will invest in somebody who will benefit the business.
They have to see: Kiev, literature of minorities, oppression of public opinion, new genre, pilgrimage, family of holocaust literature. I was thinking you have to show what role this literature played in the self recognition of a new independence for the Jewish people in the former SU and how it is well and alive in independent former soviet states and in majdans of Ukraine.
Cookbook time:
If you want me to give my review on your review I will use only one tool. And I believe in this like in religion. STRUCTURE.
I believe less in trees, their personal characteristics. it is appropriate for painters:...
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