Yeah, haven't heard of Ntozake lately, come to think o' it. I think I
saw Ms Angela on some news show a few years back. She's successful in
her own wayand still affecting the world. -C
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One of my favorite celebrity quotes:
Alexandre Dumas ("The Three Musketeers") asks his son Alexandre Dumas
("Camille") if he has read his latest book to which the son replies,
"No, father, have you?"
~rave!
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Do angry out of control riot women really last, though? Ntozake
Shange? Angela Davis?
It's interesting to know that lust gains an author a few readers.
People like to think some deep ultra hip ultra know-it-all being is
giving them some deep, mythic, wonderful truth. That's what authors
are su
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> >Anyhoo, I still dislike this idea of the transferability
> of celebrity. It annoys me that some stupid book gets praised or
some
> stupid movie gets made simply because someone famous wants to be
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> Sop true, Andrea! The question, however, that concerns me is this:
Do
> I a pudgy 46 year old qualify as a bright marketable young thing?
Do
> people buy books because the author is damn cute? I suspect at
this
> rate God will have to promote me because I just don't have
the "w
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> It should be remembered that most celebrity novels and children's
> books are ghostwritten just like most celebrity and sports
> "autobiographies."
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> The Jimmy Kimmel Show did a very funny bit showing "author"
> at http://www.aqueductpress.com/
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Sop true, Andrea! The question, however, that concerns me is this: Do
I a pudgy 46 year old qualify as a bright marketable young thing? Do
people buy books because the author is damn cute? I suspect at this
rate God will have to promote me because I just don't have the "we've
got to lionize he
--- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, "ravenadal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> It should be remembered that most celebrity novels and children's
> books are ghostwritten just like most celebrity and sports
> "autobiographies."
CM: Wow, that's a thought! But is it true? Okay, I'm pretty sure tha
It should be remembered that most celebrity novels and children's
books are ghostwritten just like most celebrity and sports
"autobiographies."
The Jimmy Kimmel Show did a very funny bit showing "author" Star Jones
on the beach reading her new book. "What's the matter?" Kimmel asked.
"Didn't she
I remember the article in some french newspaper where Madame Bovary
was sent to several POD companies (names changed in the MS) and they
all said they would publish itand some charged the author for
editing. Which went to prove the POD companies would publish
anything.
Shows also though t
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> In a comforting article for those of us with our own pile of
literary agent
> rejections, and in a copy of Le Mondeâs exercise early last year,
Britainâs
> Sunday Times sent two Booker Prize winning manuscripts (V.S.
Naipaulâs In a
> Free State and Stanley Middletonâs Holiday)
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