Hello everyone:
I've been remiss in not coming here earlier to touch base with y'all on the new Bukowski, for which I profoundly apologize! My life as an editor's gotten a bit insane, in part because I spent the end of last year and the early part of this year co-editing and co-writing an intro for The Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia. This is coming out from University of California in 2013. (It's too thick a book for City Lights to do, hence this moonlighting on top of my usual stack of editing.) Please tell me there's a Lamantia fan out there, at least from Penguin Modern Poets 13.
So yes, More Notes of a Dirty Old Man is on its way from City Lights in September, though it could come back from the printers as early as August, so keep your eyes peeled.
To give everyone an idea, this volume is made up entirely of uncollected NOADOM columns, so by definition, everything's been published somewhere at least once. It's shorter than Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook and Absence of the Hero, in part because it's modeled on the original Notes. As such, the texts are run together, without titles, as the vast majority simply ran under the NOADOM heading. I think there are three titles in the galley, but even these are going to be removed to the sources pages. It's also by no means every extant uncollected column, but rather trying to draw the strongest together because we have to make something pretty worthy of being called More Notes of a Dirty Old Man. We don't want to cheapen the title, if you see what I mean.
To the holders of the galleys: you have an extra-rare book on your hands, because the trim-size is being altered. The galley's proportions are the same as Portions but we've decided to go with the proportions of the original City Lights Notes instead. With our next printing of Notes, we're going to update the cover to reflect the look of More Notes. Point being: I forget how many galleys we did but it was a very small (double-digit) run, and while the design is unchanged, the size is markedly different from the actual copy.
On the subject of galleys, yes, the texts will be much cleaner in the final product. (We're even considering spelling David's name right on the cover!) Galleys generally come in the heat of battle, before the MS has been fully subdued, and the source material in this case is particularly rough terrain. Which is to say, it's being proofread even as we speak.
In any case, that's the basic story, and I'm happy to answer whatever questions I can, so fire away.
As Ever,
Garrett
I've been remiss in not coming here earlier to touch base with y'all on the new Bukowski, for which I profoundly apologize! My life as an editor's gotten a bit insane, in part because I spent the end of last year and the early part of this year co-editing and co-writing an intro for The Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia. This is coming out from University of California in 2013. (It's too thick a book for City Lights to do, hence this moonlighting on top of my usual stack of editing.) Please tell me there's a Lamantia fan out there, at least from Penguin Modern Poets 13.
So yes, More Notes of a Dirty Old Man is on its way from City Lights in September, though it could come back from the printers as early as August, so keep your eyes peeled.
To give everyone an idea, this volume is made up entirely of uncollected NOADOM columns, so by definition, everything's been published somewhere at least once. It's shorter than Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook and Absence of the Hero, in part because it's modeled on the original Notes. As such, the texts are run together, without titles, as the vast majority simply ran under the NOADOM heading. I think there are three titles in the galley, but even these are going to be removed to the sources pages. It's also by no means every extant uncollected column, but rather trying to draw the strongest together because we have to make something pretty worthy of being called More Notes of a Dirty Old Man. We don't want to cheapen the title, if you see what I mean.
To the holders of the galleys: you have an extra-rare book on your hands, because the trim-size is being altered. The galley's proportions are the same as Portions but we've decided to go with the proportions of the original City Lights Notes instead. With our next printing of Notes, we're going to update the cover to reflect the look of More Notes. Point being: I forget how many galleys we did but it was a very small (double-digit) run, and while the design is unchanged, the size is markedly different from the actual copy.
On the subject of galleys, yes, the texts will be much cleaner in the final product. (We're even considering spelling David's name right on the cover!) Galleys generally come in the heat of battle, before the MS has been fully subdued, and the source material in this case is particularly rough terrain. Which is to say, it's being proofread even as we speak.
In any case, that's the basic story, and I'm happy to answer whatever questions I can, so fire away.
As Ever,
Garrett