A constant theme of the author's responses was his surprise that the book should have struck such a chord with readers.
This collects the bestselling author's responses to queries he received from his fans over a period of three-and-a-half months earlier this year, on everything from social problems to Tokyo's baseball team.
They describe the artist's career and offer the subject's words from published sources, anecdotes and personal vignettes supplied by the subject's friends (interviewed by Mr. Balliett) and the author's responses to his music.
It is usual practice to not publicly discuss a paper that is in review - even an open access review model that ESD operates in which the original manuscript is made available online, along with reviewer's reports, author's responses and editorial judgements.
The website, which will be publishing the author's responses, is expected to operate on a temporary basis until the end of March.
The revised version of this article, and the author's responses to my questions and comments, are satisfactory.
