Faber editor woos Morrissey

[Kounelaki]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/fe ... -morrissey

An Open Letter to Morrissey
by Lee Brackstone

Dear Morrissey,

In the hope that you might consider bringing your much-rumoured memoir to The House of Eliot, I am posting this letter on the Faber website. Forlorn as this hope may be, I can only fantasise that at least you might read my letter through and consider the pleasures and prestige of being an author at Faber, the last great family-owned independent publishing house in the western hemisphere.

I have been trying to persuade you of the virtues and wisdom of this for some years now. You probably won’t remember. We even corresponded at one point via a friend of yours, an author of mine, most famous for his biography of Roxy Music which ends just as the band are getting together. You see, we love the perverse and the contrary at Faber. And we also like to think we are the custodians of twentieth-century Modernist poetry. In fact we are. Our shelves groan and bulge and spill over under the weight of Ezra, Larkin, Hughes and Heaney. And that’s just the surface; deep as it may seem. We feel very strongly that you belong in this company. To me (and to many of my colleagues) you are already in this company. It would be the fulfilment of my most pressing and persistent publishing dream to see that ‘ff’ sewn into the spine of your Life. Just any other publisher won’t do. You deserve Faber and the love we can give you. History demands it; destiny commands it.

I did receive a fax from you once to my invitation. And you responded with interest. I don’t know if at that stage you had embarked on your project but I have recently heard again that ‘it is on’.

Morrissey, the doors of our Georgian Bloomsbury-based publishing house are open to you wherever you may be: Rome, LA, Manchester. We recently published a book of Kevin Cummins’ photographs of Manchester pop which you may have seen. If you read this and would like a copy I will gladly send one to you. Perhaps it could mark the start of a beautiful friendship.

With warm wishes,

Lee Brackstone

[Voodoo Billy]

The sycophantic slags all say :
"I knew him first, and I knew him well"

[Scouser]

Morrissey really is a complete tit

[fat cherry]

well it turns out penguin got it, but - and who'd have imagined this could happen, they've fallen out and its been pulled:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24077284

[Dr Cheese]

Heaven knows he's miserable now etc etc.

[Kounelaki]

Some wag wrote:

"No one who has ever eaten meat or has had a single positive opinion of the Royal Family may be involved in the printing and distribution of my book."

[Voodoo Billy]

Some wag wrote:

"No one who has ever eaten meat or has had a single positive opinion of the Royal Family may be involved in the printing and distribution of my book."

He's as irrelevant as the Royal Family.

[Mr. Brian]

Morrissey is one of those people whose music I love but I would never want to meet him because he seems like such a douche.

[Voodoo Billy]

I have a Morrissey story you know.

[Mr. Brian]

I have a Morrissey story you know.

Go on...

Oh and BTW, the only reason I know what Duck Dynasty is is because he refused to go on a US talk show if the Duck Dynasty were going to be on the same show and it caused a big flap. Up until then I was quite happy to not know. Thanks a lot Morrissey. Douche. Love you!

[withahip]

Morrissey is one of those people whose music I love but I would never want to meet him because he seems like such a douche.

That is the best reason to meet him!!!

[Mr. Brian]

That is the best reason to meet him!!!

I knew when I used the word douche that withahip would appear. It's like calling a genie with a magic word!

[withahip]

I knew when I used the word douche that withahip would appear. It's like calling a genie with a magic word!

For that not so fresh feeling.

[Kounelaki]

I have a Morrissey story you know.

Did you know that withahip's been to Japan?

[crystal daze]

"The book, simply called Autobiography, will be published by Penguin Classics on October 17 and will also be available as an ebook."

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