While we all get used to not having Ray Bradbury around let's not forget how many of his literary creations have actually materialized in the real world! Amazing stuff.larger view available here
Writers Helping Writers. Or Not. Cheever, Bradbury, Salinger and Vonnegut
In 2004, Nicola Nikolov, an émigré to the U.S. in 1976 from communist Bulgaria, walked into William Dailey Rare Books in Los Angeles with a small archive of letters.Briefly recounting a dark biography past and reduced, if freer, circumstances present, he told of his life as a published Bulgarian author and his difficulty establishing a writing career for himself in the United States. It was extremely important to him that his writing be accepted.In August of 1978, he wrote, heart in hand, two-page long, well-written, typed letters to a small number of American novelists, with full, dire biographical details, limning...