Letter from Faber editor re: autobiography

[Robert Tressell]

I've been on these forums for almost 10 years and never read the word ''contrary'' before. Now I have read it twice in two days. The above quote and being called 'contrary' by Scarlet Ibis yesterday.
I wonder which household has been using their dictionary

Jukebox Jury

I've been on these forums for about 2 weeks now and I can neither agree or disagree with your point.
So don't ask me why I'm typing this.

 

[jamescagney]

I've been on these forums for almost 10 years and never read the word ''contrary'' before. Now I have read it twice in two days. The above quote and being called 'contrary' by Scarlet Ibis yesterday.
I wonder which household has been using their dictionary

Well, if Morrissey is contrary, then you're in excellent company.

Me, I've always considered myself to have an average knowledge of medicine, vocabulary / regular English, etc. Basically I just use Google and what I learned in school. (My third grader's vocabulary list at her public school already includes words like "pleasant," "succeed," "compete," so "contrary" is probably a third or fourth-grade level word.) But with people comparing me to doctors and accusing me of the crime of using a dictionary... well, I have to take it as a compliment!

Oh, sorry, big word, here's a link:

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/compliment

 

[I am a Ghost]

The Grauniad has picked up on it..

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2010/feb/02/publishing-morrissey

 

[mozmic_dancer]

The Grauniad has picked up on it..

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2010/feb/02/publishing-morrissey

Yeah, baby. Hot off the Guardian press. Good work, Ghost.

Thanks also go to Tomi for his/her original submission on the Main page:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/feb/02/faber-editor-morrissey

No thanks, however, to Amanda Schwab of Rex Features for that very unflattering accompanying photo.

 

[Dave2006]

Please, please, please, let me get the memoirs I want

Guardian Blogger / Journalist Michelle Pauli has written a piece about getting Leonard Cohen's autobiography on her Blog.... http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2010/feb/02/publishing-morrissey in the same vien as the F&F plea.

Dave

 

[joe frady]

This was discussed on Sunday's 'Open Book' on BBC Radio4. No new info, just a rather snooty general gab on the lengths some publishers are now going to in order to snare authors.
Programme site is here http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00qm62m If you 'listen again' it's at 14m40s.