Comments on: An Open Letter to Morrissey

By: Music Fascination » Faber & Faber Beg Morrissey To Write Book

Music Fascination » Faber & Faber Beg Morrissey To Write Book — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 07:52:52 +0000

[...] saying that they would love to collaborate. Editor for Faber & Faber Lee Brackstone posted a message on the company’s blog. Here is some of what the message [...]

By: British Editor Implores Morrissey to Write Autobiography | latestmusicheadlines.com

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 06:08:46 +0000

[...] globe were excited at the news, especially Lee Brackstone. The Faber editorial director recently wrote an open letter on the U.K. independent publishing house’s blog to the former Smiths singer in the hopes he [...]

By: Publisher Seeks Rights to Morrissey’s Memoirs in Letter | latestmusicheadlines.com

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:31:28 +0000

[...] ‘An Open Letter to Morrissey‘ has been posted online at book publishing company Faber & Faber’s blog by senior editor Lee Brackstone — whose dream it is to see the former Smiths singer join ‘The House of Eliot.’ [...]

By: Sebastian Knight

Sebastian Knight — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:47:18 +0000

I would never have thought it possible to have one’s dignity undermined by association with the great Faber & Faber, but so would the great, flawed Morrissey suffer if he were to allow his vanity to overrule his intellect and cave in to this embarrassing entreaty. I don’t object to the principle of an open letter, but I do object to the sentimental, pompous brutality of such phrases as “‘ff’ sewn into the spine of your Life”; “destiny commands it” etc etc. Are these not examples of everything that the names you so pointedly drop sought to expunge from poetry and from publishing?

By: Music Lovers United » Blog Archive » Publisher Seeks Rights to Morrissey’s Memoirs in Letter

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 10:21:10 +0000

By: Matthew Perren

Matthew Perren — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 09:42:17 +0000

To Hell With Celebrity Memoirs, Lee?

By: Day 39 « There Before Light

Day 39 « There Before Light — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 05:04:01 +0000

[...] said that. I can appreciate Lee Brackstone (of Faber & Faber)’s slightly oddball, obsessive appeal for Morissey to place the dank and noisome manuscript with his company. Off he [...]

By: The Leeds Side Streets That I Slip Down « Dark Satanic Mills

The Leeds Side Streets That I Slip Down « Dark Satanic Mills — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:39:03 +0000

[...] well, well. It appears that Faber editor Lee Brackstone has been grovelling to Morrissey via The Thought Fox website – he obviously is desperate for the Grand Dame’s trade. And who can blame him? A few years back [...]

By: ‘An Open Letter to Morrissey’: Publisher Faber & Faber pleads for Moz’s memoirs | 80s alternative music, college rock, indie // slicing up eyeballs

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:04:00 +0000

[...] UK publishing house Faber & Faber has posted “An Open Letter to Morrissey” on its blog, imploring the former Smiths singer to not only complete his long-discussed [...]

By: Donna Martin

Donna Martin — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:07:46 +0000

I have loved morrissey since 1983.
I am still very fond of his music but I have become a little jaded.
I will still listen to my Morrissey / Smiths on most days – but I don’t think I will be buying a book.
I was at Morrissey’s concert at the Echo Arena in Liverpool, when a fool threw a bottle of water at his head. I didn’t blame him for refusing to continue the gig – but I did expect some sort of statement afterwards.
I know a lot of people who travelled from far and wide to the concert, but it is now almost like it is ” the unspoken”.
I think that it all a bit OTT and I’ve ran an out of patience and some interest.