BIB_ID
415295
Accession number
MA 5786.20
Creator
Sullivan, Frank, 1892-1976, sender.
Display Date
Saratoga Springs, New York, undated.
Credit line
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 27.8 x 21.5 cm
Notes
Dated "Monday."
Place of writing inferred from previous correspondence.
Ned Bradford was an editor at Little, Brown; Sullivan's letters frequently concerned with his writings for the New Yorker.
Place of writing inferred from previous correspondence.
Ned Bradford was an editor at Little, Brown; Sullivan's letters frequently concerned with his writings for the New Yorker.
Provenance
Carter Burden.
Summary
Listing some possible titles: The editor's dream, The rewrite man's dream, What's the news, What's new, Man vs. dog, News baffles editor, News baffles dog, News bites dog, The perverse reporter, Unusual citizens, Likely stories, and Likely news stories; saying that he doesn't love any of them, but the "Man bites dog" motif is the one which the title should be hung, in some form; adding that he will leave the name out because the title seems unfair to Sam, but that he wishes he could think of some Man bits dog theme; acknowledging that Bradford and Dent will eventually want a title for the English book because he doesn't think Nostalgia will mean much to the British.
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