We've received all kinds of mail in the past: books, manuscripts, CDs, even a hostile brick to the editor.
If the majority of past winning manuscripts are lighthearted and funny, you may not want to submit your dark horror story.
They would walk up a flight of stairs, past the manuscript-laden Paris Review office, and up another flight into the main floor of the apartment, the walls of which were covered with posters by famous artists -- Willem de Kooning, Helen Frankenthaler, Larry Rivers -- produced as part of a fund-raising series for the magazine.
"The board in the past has reviewed manuscripts but never before concluded that communications should be restricted in any way," she said in a telephone interview.
With a fascinating past the two manuscripts are a prominent example for the application of the new Carolingian style.
My friend Mike (not his real name -- I don't want to embarrass him) has been sitting on a completed non-fiction manuscript for the last three years while going through several agents and running the manuscript past numerous editors.
The affable Mr. Gill, who says he got somewhat under $50,000 as an advance and swears he did not run the manuscript past the corporate bigs, loves serving coffee at the Starbucks here.
Burton's trail took him back to the Cold War and turned into a series of cliffhangers until, two years past his original manuscript deadline, he arrived at a key clue.
However, to get the manuscript past the government censors, Marx called the book The Poverty of Philosophy (1847) and offered it as a response to the "petty bourgeois philosophy" of the French anarcho-socialist Pierre-Joseph Proudhon as expressed in his book The Philosophy of Poverty (1840).
I ran this effort past my father,in manuscript, who saw the connection, of course, but insisted that it should be submitted unchanged.
