http://www.dystel.com/blog/2014/03/the-backstory/ Mon, 26 Jun 2017 15:15:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.15 http://www.dystel.com/blog/2014/03/the-backstory/comment-page-1/#comment-37828 Thu, 27 Mar 2014 18:23:25 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=10075#comment-37828 Not weird, but just goes to show.

]]> http://www.dystel.com/blog/2014/03/the-backstory/comment-page-1/#comment-37827 Thu, 27 Mar 2014 18:21:32 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=10075#comment-37827 That perhaps the best last line of a book ever (The Great Gatsby) was originally in the opening sequence: “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

]]> http://www.dystel.com/blog/2014/03/the-backstory/comment-page-1/#comment-37826 Thu, 27 Mar 2014 14:33:04 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=10075#comment-37826 I think I remember reading Charlotte Bronte was having an affair with a married man while writing Jane Eyre – can totally see that being processed out in the book.

]]> http://www.dystel.com/blog/2014/03/the-backstory/comment-page-1/#comment-37821 Wed, 26 Mar 2014 20:02:46 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=10075#comment-37821 Notecards and butterfly nets, eh? OK, you’ve just given us the outline of a really tasteless South Park episode, but we’ll let it go. I’m still trying to figure out Bram Stoker’s backstory to the brilliance of DRACULA as opposed to the melodramatic, overwrought potboilers like JEWEL OF THE SEVEN STARS that he spent the rest of his life grinding out. One likes to think of talent as a continous feed, but his career makes one wonder… Scary thought, eh?

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