Jeff Potter
From: Jack Saunders
To: Jeff Potter
Subj: Reply
Can you imagine Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, The Teachings of
Don Juan, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and The Monkey Wrench Gang all
being published around the same time today?
Can you imagine any of them being
published today?
Who would publish them?
You have all four, and others
like them, or none, it seems to me.
And if you don't get it in books I don't
know where you're going to get it.
Pat Simonelli
From: Jack Saunders
To: Pat Simonelli
Subj: Bookstore
Quote
Mitch Kaplan, Books & Books, Coral Gables, organized the Miami Book Fair.
Books & Books has a branch in Delray Beach.
I plan to be down
there next month for research on a book I am writing.
I thought I'd introduce
myself to the owner, by mail, and send an examination copy of Bukowski Never Did
This to him and see if he would like to schedule a reading while I'm down there.
If I tell him to order the book from you, what discount may I say you offer
a retail bookstore? I don't remember. Sorry, I'll mark it down this time.
Steve Leveen
Steve Leveen
Books & Books at Levenger
420 South Congress Avenue
Delray
Beach, FL 33445-4619
Dear Steve Leveen:
I am a writer from Delray Beach. The bridge across the canal at Linton Boulevard
is named after my father. The Jack L. Saunders Bridge.
LitVision Press recently
published a book of mine, Bukowski Never Did This: A Year in the Life of an Underground
Writer and His Family. I enclose an examination copy, three fliers, and the
pamphlet 32 Short Reviews of BUKOWSKI NEVER DID THIS.
I am going to
be in Ojus next month, February 24-26, at a bluegrass festival for research for a
book I am writing, THE CLASS OF '57 HAD ITS DREAMS, BY JACK SAUNDERS, THE SWINETTE-PICKER
OF AMERICAN LETTERS. The Ives Dairy, of Ives Dairy Road, used to be in the family.
If you like, I could do a reading/book-signing in your store.
The book is
available from the publisher, LitVision Press , 7711 Greenback Lane, #156, Citrus
Heights, CA 95610 (www.litvision.org/buk.html). $15 retail, 50% discount, returns
OK.
Or if you have an event I would fit in with better I could drive down
from Panama City.
Jack Saunders
Garage Band Books
Box 10501
Panama City, FL 32404
Mitch Kaplan
Mitch Kaplan
Books & Books
265 Aragon Avenue
Coral Gables, FL 33134
Dear Mitch Kaplan:
I am a writer from Delray Beach. The bridge across the canal at Linton Boulevard
is named after my father. The Jack L. Saunders Bridge.
LitVision Press recently
published a book of mine, Bukowski Never Did This: A Year in the Life of an Underground
Writer and His Family. I enclose an examination copy, three fliers, and the
pamphlet 32 Short Reviews of BUKOWSKI NEVER DID THIS.
I am going to
be in Ojus next month, February 24-26, at a bluegrass festival for research for a
book I am writing, THE CLASS OF '57 HAD ITS DREAMS, BY JACK SAUNDERS, THE SWINETTE-PICKER
OF AMERICAN LETTERS. The Ives Dairy, of Ives Dairy Road, used to be in the family.
If you like, I could do a reading/book-signing in your store.
The book is
available from the publisher, LitVision Press , 7711 Greenback Lane, #156, Citrus
Heights, CA 95610 (www.litvision.org/buk.html). $15 retail, 50% discount, returns
OK.
Or if you have an event I would fit in with better I could drive down
from Panama City.
Jack Saunders
Garage Band Books
Box 10501
Panama City, FL 32404
Also enclosed find a copy of Forty, which describes my having a booth
at Miami Book Fair International in 1986. My booth was next to Radical Jack Lieberman,
or some fellow selling pro-left-wing Latin American books. I thought the Cuban exiles
were going to torch his booth.
Unfortunately, Forty is out of print.
* * *
Didn't Dude magazine used to have editorial offices on Aragon Avenue?
I remember telling the fiction editor my only criticism of his magazine was my tongue
stuck to the paper.
Bukowski used to write for Hustler.
Query Letter and Proposal
I wrote the first chapter, "A Bluegrass Family," and an Introduction
to THE CLASS OF '57 HAD ITS DREAMS, BY JACK SAUNDERS, THE SWINETTE-PICKER OF AMERICAN
LETTERS and decided to send a query letter and a proposal to John F. Blair, Publisher,
and Vanderbilt University Press.
Blair published The Bluegrass Music Cookbook,
which Owen had a recipe for corned grouper in, and Vanderbilt published Tom Piazza's
True Adventures with the King of Bluegrass, Jimmy Martin.
I sent Piazza
a Dread Clampitt CD and we met at booksALIVE 2005! He has a new book out
about why New Orleans is worth saving.
Jeff Potter
From: Jack Saunders
To: Jeff Potter
Subj: Reply
Once Rolling Stone got big enough to have Honda ads--you meet the nicest people
on a Honda--Thompson, who got the shit stomped out of him by the Hells Angels and
rode a Vincent Black Shadow--got in trouble with Wenner for making fun of Honda riders
as limp weenies and riceburners as not the real thing, motorcycle-wise. That's the
real threat. Marketplace censorship. It's invisible. It happens behind closed
doors. No one even questions that it's right, okay, "just in the nature of
the way things works."