{"id":250,"date":"2019-09-15T15:10:22","date_gmt":"2019-09-15T20:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/from-thought-into-print\/?page_id=250"},"modified":"2019-09-16T17:04:16","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T22:04:16","slug":"20-discord","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/from-thought-into-print\/exhibition\/1-conceptualization\/2-research\/3-dialog\/4-inspiration\/5-rewriting\/2-new-ending\/7-alterations\/8-original-version\/9-re-issue\/10-style\/11-fact-checking\/12-production\/13-proofing\/14-choices\/15-back-story\/16-mockup\/17-design\/18-design-2\/19-compromise\/20-discord\/","title":{"rendered":"20 &#8211; Discord"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Mark Harris (1922-2007), author<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Eliot Fremont-Smith (1929-2007), editor<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thirty\nyears before Alan Kaufman\u2019s <em>Jew Boy<\/em> (2000),\nMark Harris\u2019s <em>The Goy<\/em> perplexed\nreaders, reviewers, and his publisher with its disparaging title and attitude.\nHarris had not published a novel in 10 years and <em>The Goy<\/em> was a stark contrast to the author\u2019s well-received four novels\nrelated to the baseball career of Henry W. Wiggen, especially the bestseller <em>Bang the Drum Slowly<\/em> (1956). Correspondence\nwith Harris\u2019s longtime editor Al Hart (recently transferred to Dial), and with\nhis new Little Brown editor-in-chief, Eliot Fremont-Smith, reflects the tension\naround Harris\u2019s book. Fremont-Smith copied Mrs. Ad Schulberg, Harris\u2019s agent,\non his decision to sever Little Brown\u2019s ties with Harris. Harris was able to\nfollow his old editor, Al Hart, to Dial, who published <em>The Goy<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>All items from the Mark Harris papers<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Mark Harris to Al Hart, <strong>typed letter (carbon)<\/strong>, November 1, 1969 (2 pages)<\/li><li>Eliot Fremont-Smith to Mark\nHarris, <strong>typed letter<\/strong> signed, November 4, 1969 (3\npages)<\/li><li><em>The Goy<\/em>. <strong>Uncorrected\ngalleys<\/strong>. Dial Press, publication date September 11, 1970<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p> <em>[UD_EXHIBITION_ITEM]<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Harris (1922-2007), author Eliot Fremont-Smith (1929-2007), editor Thirty years before Alan Kaufman\u2019s Jew Boy (2000), Mark Harris\u2019s The Goy perplexed readers, reviewers, and his publisher with its disparaging title and attitude. Harris had not published a novel in 10 years and The Goy was a stark contrast to the author\u2019s well-received four novels related [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":248,"menu_order":20,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-exhibition.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-250","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/from-thought-into-print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/250"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/from-thought-into-print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/from-thought-into-print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/from-thought-into-print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/from-thought-into-print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/from-thought-into-print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":487,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/from-thought-into-print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/250\/revisions\/487"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/from-thought-into-print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.lib.udel.edu\/from-thought-into-print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}