![]() ![]() On April 18, the Martha Graham Dance Company will stage a six-and-a-half hour reading of Graham’s 1991 autobiography, “Blood Memory.” The event will take place at the New York Public Libraryįor the Performing Arts, at Lincoln Center, starting at 11 a.m. So-called marathon readings of famous - and famously long - books like “Moby-Dick” and “Ulysses” have become familiar occurrences in the literary world. Wrote: “To the extent that 21st-century literary audiences have been introduced to the realities and absurdities born of the phenomenon of race in America, Jackson has done a disproportionate amount ![]() Jackson in The New York Times Magazine in February, Vinson Cunningham With revitalizing the imprint, with an official restart in fall 2017. One World, which has a multicultural focus, began in 1991, publishing a mix of fiction and nonfiction, including the paperback reprint of “The Autobiography of Malcolm X.” Mr. Before that, he had been an editor at Crown, also Jackson has been an executive editor at Spiegel & Grau, an imprint at Random House founded that same year by Cindy Spiegel and Julie Grau. Has been named the vice president, publisher and editor-in-chief of the One World imprint of Random House. The editor Chris Jackson, whose work with the author Ta-Nehisi Coates, the civil rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson and the hip-hop star Jay Z, among others, has made him a rare public star in the world of book publishing, The letter will be on public view starting on May 31 in Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles and then New York, where the sale will be held on June 16.Ĭhris Jackson Credit Shaniqwa Jarvis for The New York Times It was sent to the offices of Golden Goose for possible publication, but went unnoticed for decades, according to Christie’s. “It was the greatest piece of writing I ever saw, better’n anybody in America, or at least enough to make Melville, Twain, Dreiser, Wolfe, I dunno who, spin in their graves,” Kerouac said.Īfter receiving the letter Kerouac lent it to Allen Ginsberg, who passed it along to another poet, who was living on a houseboat, who “lost the letter, overboard, I presume,” Kerouac said. In an interview in 1968, Kerouac said he had got the idea of the “spontaneous style” of “On the Road” from “seeing how good old Neal Cassady wrote his letters to me, allįirst person, fast, mad, confessional, completely serious, all detailed, with real names in his case, however (being letters).” The missive, known as the Joan Anderson letter, after a woman with whom Cassady described an amorous relationship, had been known only from a fragment, apparently retyped by Kerouac, that was published in 1964. That the three parties had reached “an amicable settlement.” She also said the family, which owns the copyright on the letter, intended to publish it at some point. Jami Cassady, a spokeswoman for the family, told The San Francisco Chronicle this week Suspended after the Kerouac estate and Cassady’s ![]() ![]() The 16,000-word typed letter, which carries an estimate of $400,000 to $600,000, had been considered lost before it surfaced in the discarded files of Golden Goose Press, a now-defunct small San Francisco publisher,Īnd listed for sale by a Southern California auction house The 16,000-word letter written by Neal Cassady, which helped inspire Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road.” Credit ReutersĪ rambling 1950 letter from Neal Cassady to Jack Kerouac that helped inspire “On the Road” will be auctioned next month by Christie’s in New York, apparently bringing to an end an 18-month legal battle over its ownership. ![]()
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