They've announced that Ransom Center to Acquire Archive of Kazuo Ishiguro, as the Harry Ransom Center has purchased Kazuo Ishiguro's archive (for: "just over $1m", The Guardian reports).
Among the finds: "his first serious attempt at fiction, a pulp Western", which I am so hoping someone publishes.
Ishiguro seems kind of young (he's sixty) to be selling out -- though, yeah, the money is good and times are tough. Still .....
And I wonder how much younger writers -- who don't have nearly as much archival accumulation in this electronic age -- consciously try to collect papers so that they'll someday have a pile to sell too .....
Among the finds: "his first serious attempt at fiction, a pulp Western", which I am so hoping someone publishes.
Ishiguro seems kind of young (he's sixty) to be selling out -- though, yeah, the money is good and times are tough. Still .....
And I wonder how much younger writers -- who don't have nearly as much archival accumulation in this electronic age -- consciously try to collect papers so that they'll someday have a pile to sell too .....