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  • Sonya Lipczynska.
  • Robert Boyer's files contain photographic materials for his biography of John Brown.
  • Don Bachardy, who would become Isherwood's longtime partner after a chance meeting on Valentine's Day on the beach.

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    The records of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1873-1995 (bulk 1945-1980), document the daily activities of an established and prestigious publishing firm. Beyond recording the history of the firm, its founders, editors, and other staff, the collection serves to articulate the publishing process (especially in terms of editorial and promotional practices at Knopf), to offer detailed information on the numerous prominent authors and books published by the firm, and to illuminate the interactions between publishers, authors, editors, literary agents, manuscript readers, translators, and book designers, all engaged in the endeavor to produce quality books. The pervasive influence and hallmarks of the firm's founders Alfred A. and Blanche Wolf Knopf are evident throughout the archive: unwavering commitment to worthy books; introduction of international writers to the American public; insistence on quality book design and manufacture; and the pursuit of books on topics of

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    I blogged today over at Give 'em the old Razzle Dazzleabout how impressed I was with the new BBC drama Christopher and His Kind. Of course, Mr Isherwood's adventures in Berlin was not the end of the story - far from it...

    After escaping the horrors of his beloved city of Berlin once the rise of the Nazis had ensured the decimation of its decadent underworld, Christopher Isherwood settled in Los Angeles and immediately became entangled in its circle of European émigrés, writers, painters, and seekers of enlightenment - Aldous Huxley, Truman Capote, David Hockney and the rest.



    Among this gay gathering of aesthetes was Don Bachardy, who would become Isherwood’s longtime partner after a chance meeting on Valentine’s Day on the beach. Christopher was 48; Don was eighteen years old.


    "Isherwood and Bachardy were open about their life together, regardless of the waves it caused. This was during a period when gay relationships were not acceptable. The age difference i
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    "[Camp is] always, and at whatever cost, a cry against conformity, a skrik against boredom, a testament to the potential uniqueness of each of us and our rights to that uniqueness."George Melly, from the preface of Camp - the Lie that tells the Truth bygd Philip Core[one of my favourite books of all time].

    The epithet "Camp" could have been invented for Mr George Melly, whose 90th birthday it would have been today. Paradoxically "Good-Time George" was not particularly feminin, nor robustly homosexual (although he had many "flings" - as recounted in detail in his first volume of autobiography Rum, Bum and Concertina), yet he exuded a flamboyantly defiant air of swagger against the po-faced world of Jazz purists, perpetually displaying his "love of the unnatural: of artifice and exaggeration"[to quote Susan Sontag's epic Notes on Camp], and was eternally adored for it - equally bygd those who were "in on the joke", and by those who merely appreciated the work of a suprem