Press, and he told Brandow that he'd give the manuscript a look.
His original manuscript, a short draft, had emerged from an incident that Lowry and Jan Gabrial had seen in Mexico.
Well, the normal procedure is you get a manuscript, a typewritten manuscript with notes in the margins.
When it was all done, I sent Spielberg a special manuscript, a serigraph, of my song "I Remember Clifford".
In the meantime, HarperCollins, the New York publisher, has canceled its contract to publish the manuscript, a spokeswoman said.
Mr. Hirst said: "I've read this manuscript a million times, and it still makes me laugh.
Such claims, of course, hinge on the authenticity of Crafts's manuscript, a subject all but laid to rest in Gates's long introduction to the book.
Pankaj Mishra, a 27-year-old editor at HarperCollins's India division, was reading a manuscript, a first novel by a relatively unknown Indian film writer.
Although Nabokov said he had destroyed the manuscript, a copy survived and the work was in fact published, in translation from the Russian, in 1986.
The manuscript A New Model of the Universe was written in Russian sometime before 1914 but first published in English in 1931.
Readers acquainted with Bulgakov's work will recognize the memorable tropes: a burning manuscript, a delirium tremens diagnosis, linden trees at Patriarch's Ponds.
