A History of the African-American People (Proposed) by Strom Thurmond by Percival Everett & James Kincaid

Author:Percival Everett & James Kincaid [Everett, Percival & Kincaid, James]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Humour, Politics, ebook, book
ISBN: 9781888451573
Amazon: 1888451572
Barnesnoble: 1888451572
Goodreads: 355819
Publisher: Akashic Books
Published: 2004-04-01T04:00:00+00:00

SIMON & SCHUSTER, INC.

1230 Avenue of the Americas

New York, NY 10020

January 3, 2003

To: Percival Everett

From: Martin Snell

Dear Percival:

This is to acknowledge receipt of your alleged expenses, all itemized and put in columns, pertaining to what you say was a trip to talk with Senator Thurmond. Kincaid’s too.

I am very glad to hear that you are meeting and talking. That’s good. Very promising.

Twice burned is once ________. [I can’t decipher this word.]

Of course meeting and talking is not reading and writing, now is it? Writing is what we want here at Simon & Schuster. I suppose you know that but you don’t always act like it.

As a friend, I am cheering you on and am delighted at what is probably (or at least maybe) good news. As an editor and a professional, I am about as interested in these preliminaries as I would be in the news that you had found relief from chronic constipation and were able once again to resume gardening.

We can correspond as friends. I never said we couldn’t. Birds of a feather, you know. But as editor and writers, our correspondence is different. For instance, the news that you are talking to the Senator and have incurred expenses thereby is of interest, though mild, to a friend. To an editor, it is—how shall I put this?—inexpressibly annoying.

If you are concerned about being reimbursed, I suggest you contact your university or withdraw funds from the stock previously supplied to you by Simon & Schuster for your work. As we have yet to see any work at all, I am sure you don’t expect us to pay extra for expenses you encountered in the pursuit of what, for anything we know, is not writing at all.

Now that should put us on an equal footing, with everyone on a level playing field and shooting the same caliber rifles. Instant gratification is the curse of the X generation. [I may have got this wrong. Please check.]

Love,

Martin

Dictated to Juniper McCloud

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