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ID # 31383
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Episodic
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SRN
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CT/NY/NJ/PA |
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Non-union
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n/a
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Release Date |
04-24-06
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| Audition Date |
12-31-69
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Submission Deadline |
04-25-06
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| Shoot Date |
12-31-69
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| Casting Category |
Episodic TV - Non-Union
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| Market(s) |
Hartford, CT>New York City, NY>Philadelphia, PA>Pittsburgh, PA |
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"I found in this time in America, people are so insecure, so full of fears," she said
Through a series of events that might make their own good novel, Carter's story, "Such Sweet Thunder," will be published this April "I had not done anything (with the manuscript)
"This is a unique window into African-American culture and life between the world wars," Fleischer said
Although he changes names and places and uses a fictional child, Amerigo Jones, as the narrator, the book is Carter's story of coming of age through the Depression, racism and violence of the 1920s and '30s He died in 1983, unknown by the literary world
"Carter felt his strength was in portraying human beings in such a way that he could present black Americans and their experience in a new light," Fleischer said "I think a book that speaks so much about love and dignity under very difficult circumstances is needed now
"I thought, 'Well, he's happy doing his painting and other things He never lived in Kansas City again, eventually settling in Bern, where he stayed until his death Intrigued, Fleischer decided to find out if Carter or the manuscript mentioned in Lottman's preface still existed "
Haas said that after he gave up trying to get the book published, Carter turned his attention to other means of creative expression, such as drawing and playing the flute "
Haas, who recently returned to Switzerland from a trip to the United States, said she hoped Americans would find the joy in the book "
Carter was born in Kansas City in 1924, the only son of teenage parents
The author, Vincent Carter, stopped writing when he couldn't get the book published ' But somehow, deep, deep down, I thought perhaps someday it would happen Serendipity Leads to Novel's Publication
Mar 5, 12:30 PM EST
For 40 years, a manuscript about growing up black and poor in Kansas City sat on a shelf in Bern, Switzerland, apparently just another failed effort by an unsuccessful writer "
Another problem was the book's length and its characters' use of a heavy dialect "He wasn't political, he wasn't going to join a movement Carter succeeded in what he attempted to do, and as a work of literature, it's a really rare opportunity for readers "But he wasn't bitter
A friend of Fleischer's found "The Bern Book" in a used bookstore and sent it to him, mostly because of Fleischer's Kansas City roots
Carter trimmed the original manuscript and revised some of the dialect but still could not get his second book published It's like this fell from the sky
Lottman met Carter in the 1970s, when he wrote a preface for the only book Carter had published in his lifetime â€â€? "The Bern Book," about his first years in Bern "
He contacted Lottman, who told him Carter was long dead It seems the time is right now for him He also became interested in eastern religions and yoga It is also a loving ode to his parents, who worked hard to provide for him and stayed in Kansas City until their deaths
But Lottman contacted several others in Europe and the United States, which eventually led Fleischer to Liselotte Haas, who lived with Carter in Bern for 20 years Naturally, he thought it was a pity that it wasn't published," Haas said
"The length of the book required the patience of an editor, and patient editors were then already a rapidly disappearing species," said Herbert Lottman, an international correspondent for Publishers Weekly in Paris
"He decided that the most important thing was that he had written it That's what he wanted, to touch people's hearts with all this love "In a way, it fills a hole on the shelf of 20th-century American literature
"I'm very happy for Vincent
And that would have been the end of the story, except for a serendipitous chain of events that began last summer In that preface, Lottman also discussed Carter's unpublished work of fiction about Kansas City
"I was incredibly surprised, it was so out of the blue," Haas said in an interview from Bern He said black writers in the 1960s were encouraged to write about black rage, civil rights and "the crap that black people had to put up with "
Carter wasn't interested in writing that kind of book, Fleischer said But he said readers who get past the flaws will be entranced by Carter's world
Fleischer acknowledges that if Carter were alive, he would need to polish the book again, particularly the first 100 pages
The book is getting positive early reviews after a strong push from a small group of Carter's admirers And it made me very, very happy
Kirkus Review called it a "diamond in the rough" that "is still an extraordinarily honest and compassionate child's-eye view of a world too seldom seen in American fiction
And that likely is the main reason why Carter couldn't get his book published in the 1960s, said Chip Fleischer, a publisher with Steerforth Press in South Royalton, Vt
That could soon change He graduated from Lincoln High School in 1941, and was drafted into the Army Publishers at that time just weren't going for that , who is mostly responsible for the book being published now "
Four days after Haas was contacted, the 850-page manuscript arrived from Bern in Fleischer's office in Vermont
Still, "Such Sweet Thunder" is an often joyful and warm picture of how a youngster sees his loud, chaotic multiethnic world populated by his family, neighbors, teachers and friends
