Comments on: Roundup http://www.edrants.com/roundup-178/ a cultural website in ever-shifting standing Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:01:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: James Tata http://www.edrants.com/roundup-178/comment-page-1/#comment-237407 James Tata Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:11:42 +0000 http://www.edrants.com/?p=6693#comment-237407 Ed-- Regarding your comment on Britney Spears, I agree completely. Yes she's in the pit of multiple addictions and so is acting the talentless fool, but attacking her figure?? Before I saw such comments on the web, I saw various pictures from her show and thought, "She looks great. And considering she's had two kids, she looks really great." Ed–

Regarding your comment on Britney Spears, I agree completely. Yes she’s in the pit of multiple addictions and so is acting the talentless fool, but attacking her figure?? Before I saw such comments on the web, I saw various pictures from her show and thought, “She looks great. And considering she’s had two kids, she looks really great.”

]]> By: heebee http://www.edrants.com/roundup-178/comment-page-1/#comment-237406 heebee Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:52:38 +0000 http://www.edrants.com/?p=6693#comment-237406 I thought Britney looked better. I can't stand that buff/anorexic look on women. I like a little paunch. I thought Britney looked better. I can’t stand that buff/anorexic look on women. I like a little paunch.

]]> By: Lawrence Tate http://www.edrants.com/roundup-178/comment-page-1/#comment-237405 Lawrence Tate Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:51:12 +0000 http://www.edrants.com/?p=6693#comment-237405 David Oshinsky's article is laughable in places. He speaks of Anais Nin as if her books were still selling like hotcakes. Well....back when Knopf turned her down, every major house in NY was doing so too. She managed to get a couple of books published by EP Dutton in the 1940s only because the junior editor who took them was also her boyfriend....some kid named Gore Vidal. And it's not like much of her stuff is in demand now. Harcourt published three or so volumes of her unexpurgated diary in the 1990s, bringing it up to 1940, but then abandoned the project because of poor sales; the publisher of most of her fiction, Swallow Press (now run by Ohio University Press) is trying to put together the funds to publish the rest of the diary. One amusing story that would be in the Knopf files that Oshinsky missed: I happen to know an elderly retired lawyer in upstate NY who, in the late '50s, read Polish and Russian books for consideration by Knopf. One day he read Bruno Schulz's "The Street Of Crocodiles," the reissue Kultura published in Paris around 1953. He loved it and submitted a report to Blanche Knopf, urging its translation and publication. She told him that first she'd have to run it by "an old friend of mine who knows everything about Polish literature." A few weeks later she called him into the office and showed him the letter she'd just gotten from the friend: "My dear Mrs. Knopf, I am writing to tell you that I have never heard of Bruno Schulz or his work. Yours truly, Artur Rubinstein." Yes, the pianist. On the basis of that, Knopf passed and it was almost a decade before Walker & Co brought out Schulz in the US. David Oshinsky’s article is laughable in places. He speaks of Anais Nin as if her books were still selling like hotcakes. Well….back when Knopf turned her down, every major house in NY was doing so too. She managed to get a couple of books published by EP Dutton in the 1940s only because the junior editor who took them was also her boyfriend….some kid named Gore Vidal. And it’s not like much of her stuff is in demand now. Harcourt published three or so volumes of her unexpurgated diary in the 1990s, bringing it up to 1940, but then abandoned the project because of poor sales; the publisher of most of her fiction, Swallow Press (now run by Ohio University Press) is trying to put together the funds to publish the rest of the diary.

One amusing story that would be in the Knopf files that Oshinsky missed: I happen to know an elderly retired lawyer in upstate NY who, in the late ’50s, read Polish and Russian books for consideration by Knopf. One day he read Bruno Schulz’s “The Street Of Crocodiles,” the reissue Kultura published in Paris around 1953. He loved it and submitted a report to Blanche Knopf, urging its translation and publication. She told him that first she’d have to run it by “an old friend of mine who knows everything about Polish literature.” A few weeks later she called him into the office and showed him the letter she’d just gotten from the friend: “My dear Mrs. Knopf, I am writing to tell you that I have never heard of Bruno Schulz or his work. Yours truly, Artur Rubinstein.” Yes, the pianist. On the basis of that, Knopf passed and it was almost a decade before Walker & Co brought out Schulz in the US.

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