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Sterling Lord, Uniquely Enduring Literary (*102*), Dies at 102
By HILLEL ITALIE, AP National Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — Sterling Lord, the uniquely enduring literary agent who labored for years to discover a writer for Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road” and over the next a long time organized offers for everybody from true crime author Joe McGinniss to the creators of the Berenstain Bears, has died. He had simply turned 102.
Lord died Saturday in a nursing dwelling in Ocala, Florida, in accordance with his daughter, Rebecca Lord.
“He had an excellent dying and died peacefully of outdated age,” she informed The Associated Press.
Sterling Lord, who started his personal company in 1952 and later merged with rival Literistic to kind Sterling Lord Literistic Inc., was a failed journal writer who grew to become, virtually absolutely, the longest-serving agent within the e book business. He stayed with the corporate he based till he was practically 100 — after which determined to launch a brand new one.
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He was well-spoken and athletic, a most ready negotiator who wearing tweed and averted most vices. But he was alert to new tendencies and an early ambassador for a revolutionary cultural motion: the Beats. With uncommon persistence, he endured the preliminary unwillingness of publishers to tackle Kerouac’s unorthodox narrative and was later the longtime agent for poet and playwright Amiri Baraka, novelist Ken Kesey and poet and City Lights bookstore proprietor Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
His full roster of purchasers produced works about sports activities, politics, homicide and the travails of illustrated animals.
Thanks to his friendship with Theodore Geisel, higher generally known as Dr. Seuss, Lord helped launch Stan and Jan Berenstain’s multimillion-selling books about an anthropomorphic bear household. He negotiated phrases between McGinniss and accused killer Jeffrey MacDonald, later convicted, for the true crime traditional “Fatal Vision.” He discovered a writer for Nicholas Pileggi’s mob story “Wiseguy” and helped prepare the deal for its celebrated film adaptation, “Goodfellas.”
In the early Nineteen Sixties, Viking had requested Lord to get a blurb from Kerouac for “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” Kesey’s first and most well-known novel. Kerouac declined, however Lord was so impressed by the e book that he ended up representing Kesey for his subsequent work, “Sometimes a Great Notion.”
He represented former U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and Judge John Sirica of Watergate fame and labored typically with Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis throughout her time as an editor with Doubleday and Viking. Some of the good sports activities books of the twentieth century, from “North Dallas Forty” to “Secretariat,” had been written by his purchasers.
“Plenty of issues about this business have actually caught me and made it a compelling curiosity,” Lord informed the AP in 2013. “First, I’m excited by good writing. Second, I’m excited by new and good ideas. And third, I’ve been capable of meet some terribly attention-grabbing folks.”
Lord would additionally converse proudly of a venture he declined: Lyndon Johnson’s memoir. Representatives for the previous president knowledgeable Lord within the late Nineteen Sixties that Johnson needed $1 million for the e book and that Lord ought to settle for lower than his typical fee for the respect of working with him. Lord turned them down, a lot to their shock and anger.
Johnson’s “The Vantage Point,” in the end revealed in 1971, was dismissed by critics as bland and uninformative. Lord as a substitute discovered a deal for “Quotations from Chairman LBJ,” a bestselling parody.
Lord was married 4 instances, and had one baby, Rebecca.
Books and tennis had been lifelong passions for Lord, born in Burlington, Iowa, in 1920. It started when his mom would learn to him after dinner; he went on to edit his highschool newspaper and work as a sports activities stringer across the similar time for the Des Moines Register. He additionally grew to become a tennis star at Grinnell College, and later a adequate participant to compete towards Don Budge, amongst others.
His upbringing, he would later write, was the type of “nice, orderly” world “the Beats had been trampling on within the fifties and sixties.”
After serving within the Army Air Force throughout World War II, Lord co-owned the Germany-based journal Weekend, which quickly folded. Back within the U.S., he served as an editor at True and Cosmopolitan, from which he was fired, earlier than founding the Sterling Lord Literary Agency. Lord had met many brokers throughout his journal years and believed they failed to grasp that the American public was changing into extra city and complex. He additionally prided himself on his sympathy for writers who lived much more wildly than he did.
His first marriage, he would acknowledge, helped encourage him to enter business for himself.
“Frankly, I did not wish to take care of the state of affairs at dwelling,” he informed the Des Moines Register in 2015.
Lord had fast success by promoting film rights to 2 common sports activities books, Rocky Graziano’s “Somebody Up There Likes Me” and Jimmy Piersall’s “Fear Strikes Out.” But Lord’s “On the Road” quest would show bumpier.
In his 2013 memoir “Lord of Publishing,” Lord remembered first assembly Kerouac in 1952. Kerouac already had accomplished a traditional novel, “The Town and the City,” however had no agent and absolutely wanted one for his subsequent e book: “On the Road” was typed, as Lord was among the many first to know, “on a 120-foot scroll of architectural tracing paper.”
Lord believed that Kerouac had “a contemporary, distinctive voice that ought to be heard.” But the trade was not within the temper. Even youthful editors who might have associated to Kerouac’s jazzy celebration of youth and private freedom turned him down. One editor wrote to Lord that “Kerouac does have huge expertise of a really particular sort. But this isn’t a well-made novel, nor a saleable one nor even, I feel, an excellent one.”
By 1955, Kerouac was prepared to surrender — however Lord was not. The agent ultimately bought excerpts to The Paris Review and the periodical New World Writing. An editor from Viking Press contacted Lord, providing an advance of $900. Lord held out for $1,000. In 1957, the e book was launched, The New York Times raved and “On the Road” quickly entered the American canon.
But Kerouac was a shy and fragile man, Lord wrote. Fame magnified a consuming downside that killed him by 1969. Lord even recruited a physician who unsuccessfully tried to get Kerouac to wash up, however the businessman ultimately backed away since he was his “literary agent, not his life agent.”
Lord attended Kerouac’s funeral, sharing a limousine trip together with his shopper Jimmy Breslin and standing by the grave alongside Allen Ginsberg, “the daylight filtering via the timber, the leaves brown after shedding their fall colours.”
Lord oversaw Kerouac’s quite a few posthumous releases whilst he battled the creator’s household for management of the property. After years of failed makes an attempt, a filmed model of “On the Road” was launched in 2012. But Lord had little involvement within the venture, directed by Walter Salles and starring Sam Riley and Kristen Stewart. He did not trouble to attend a particular screening, citing combined early evaluations, and did not present up for a personal social gathering for the film.
“I made a decision to go dwelling,” he informed the AP in 2013.
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By BRETT MARTEL, AP Sports Writer
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The defending champion Golden State Warriors fell to 0-6 on the street, shedding 114-105 to Brandon Ingram and the New Orleans Pelicans on Friday night time with Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson, Draymond Green and Andrew Wiggins sidelined.
Ingram scored 26 factors in his return from a four-game absence due to a concussion and reserve Larry Nance Jr. scored 20 factors for the Pelicans, together with a number of fourth-quarter dunks that saved Golden State at bay. CJ McCollum scored 20 factors and Zion Williamson added 16 for New Orleans.
Jordan Poole had 20 factors and 9 assists for the Warriors. Kevon Looney was the one common starter in uniform for Golden State’s second sport in two nights on the finish of a winless five-game journey.
The Warriors are 3-7 total. Among Western Conference groups, solely Houston (1-8) has extra losses.
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Curry, Thompson, Green and Wiggins all had been scratched after taking part in the earlier night time in a loss at Orlando.
The Warriors will not be taking part in Thompson on back-to-back nights due to his anterior cruciate ligament and Achilles tendon accidents in 2019 and 2020. Green is beneath related limitations due to a again damage final season. Curry was being rested due to elbow soreness and Wiggins due to a sore left foot.
A beginning lineup that as an alternative included Poole and fellow guard Moses Moody, together with forwards Anthony Lamb and Jonathan Kuminga, made the sport aggressive into the fourth quarter.
Ty Jerome, who scored 18 factors, hit a 3 to pull the Warriors inside 99-96 earlier than the Pelicans steadily pulled away through the closing six minutes.
Trey Murphy III’s 3-pointer capped a 7-0 Pelicans spurt that started with Nance’s dunk and layup and made it 111-101 with two minutes to go. Ingram, who additionally had 5 rebounds, 5 assists and two blocks, obtained a standing ovation when he checked out of the sport within the closing minute.
New Orleans led by as many as 11 within the second quarter when Jose Alvarado intercepted Poole’s go and located Williamson for a breakaway, windmill dunk.
But the Warriors chipped away and trailed 50-49 on James Wiseman’s putback dunk.
Nance scored the ultimate 4 factors of the quarter on a finger roll and dunk, placing the Pelicans up 61-54 at halftime.
Warriors: Kuminga completed with 18 factors, whereas Lamb scored 16 and Moody had 14. … Went 12 of 32 from 3-point vary. … In addition to the 4 starters who sat, G/F Andre Iguodala (hip) and G Donte DiVincenzo (hamstring) remained inactive. Iguodala has but to play this season, whereas DiVicenzo hasn’t performed since Oct. 23.
Pelicans: Alvarado and Murphy every scored 10 factors and every hit three 3s to assist New Orleans go 12 of 29 from lengthy vary … Shot 50.6% total (41 of 81) and outrebounded Golden State 51-36.
Warriors coach Steve Kerr stated he appreciates that followers paid “good money” to see gamers on his staff who sat out with the objective of preserving their long-term well being.
“Ultimately the gamers’ well being is the No. 1 consider our staff’s success and even our followers’ satisfaction in the long term,” Kerr stated.
He added that whereas some absences are unpredictable, “it will be smart” for followers to research schedules of groups they need to see and handle expectations when these groups are taking part in on consecutive nights on the finish of a visit, because the Warriors had been.
“Especially once you get a staff with gamers who’ve previous accidents like we do, or guys who’re superior age-wise,” Kerr stated. “I apologize to any followers on the market who had been hoping to see these guys.”
Warriors: Host Sacramento on Monday.
Pelicans: Visit Atlanta on Saturday.
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By BARBARA ORTUTAY and MATT O’BRIEN, AP Technology Writers
Twitter started widespread layoffs Friday as new proprietor Elon Musk overhauls the corporate, elevating grave issues about chaos enveloping the social media platform and its capacity to struggle disinformation simply days forward of the U.S. midterm elections.
The pace and size of the cuts additionally opened Musk and Twitter to lawsuits. At least one was filed alleging Twitter violated federal regulation by not offering fired workers the required discover.
The San Francisco-based firm informed staff by e mail Thursday that they’d study Friday if they’d been laid off. About half of the corporate’s employees of seven,500 was let go, Yoel Roth, Twitter’s head of security & integrity, confirmed in a tweet.
Musk tweeted late Friday that there was no alternative however to chop the jobs “when the corporate is dropping over $4M/day.” He didn’t present particulars on the each day losses on the firm and mentioned workers who misplaced their jobs have been supplied three months’ pay as a severance.
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No different social media platform comes near Twitter as a spot the place public businesses and different important service suppliers — election boards, police departments, utilities, faculties and news retailers — preserve individuals reliably knowledgeable. Many worry Musk’s layoffs will intestine it and render it lawless.
Roth mentioned the corporate’s front-line moderation employees was the group the least impacted by the job cuts.
He added that Twitter’s “efforts on election integrity — together with dangerous misinformation that may suppress the vote and combatting state-backed info operations — stay a prime precedence.”
Musk, in the meantime, tweeted that “Twitter’s sturdy dedication to content material moderation stays completely unchanged.”
But a Twitter worker who spoke with The Associated Press Friday mentioned it is going to be so much more durable to get that work executed beginning subsequent week after dropping so many colleagues.
“This will influence our capacity to offer help for elections, positively,” mentioned the worker who spoke on the situation of anonymity out of issues for job safety.
The worker mentioned there’s no “concrete sense of route” aside from what Musk says publicly on Twitter.
“I comply with his tweets they usually have an effect on how we prioritize our work,” mentioned the worker. “It’s a really wholesome indicator of what to prioritize.”
Several workers who tweeted about dropping their jobs mentioned Twitter eradicated their complete groups, together with one centered on human rights and world conflicts, one other checking Twitter’s algorithms for bias in how tweets get amplified, and an engineering crew devoted to creating the social platform extra accessible for individuals with disabilities.
Eddie Perez, a Twitter civic integrity crew supervisor who give up in September, mentioned he fears the layoffs so near the midterms may permit disinformation to “unfold like wildfire” in the course of the post-election vote-counting interval specifically.
“I’ve a tough time believing that it doesn’t have a cloth influence on their capacity to handle the quantity of disinformation on the market,” he mentioned, including that there merely might not be sufficient workers to beat it again.
President Joe Biden, at a marketing campaign occasion in Illinois Friday night time, mentioned: “Now what are all of us anxious about? Elon Musk, who goes out and buys an outfit that sends and spews lies all the world over. … How can we count on children to have the ability to perceive what’s at stake?”
Twitter’s workers have been anticipating layoffs since Musk took the helm. He fired prime executives, together with CEO Parag Agrawal, and eliminated the corporate’s board of administrators on his first day as proprietor.
As the emailed notices went out, many Twitter workers took to the platform to specific help for one another — typically merely tweeting blue coronary heart emojis to indicate its blue chicken brand — and salute emojis in replies to one another.
A Twitter supervisor mentioned many workers discovered they’d been laid off after they may now not log into the corporate’s methods. The supervisor mentioned the way in which the layoffs have been carried out confirmed a “lack of care and thoughtfulness.” The supervisor, who spoke to the AP on the situation of anonymity out of issues for job safety, mentioned managers weren’t given any discover about who can be getting laid off.
“For me as a supervisor, it’s been excruciating as a result of I needed to discover out about what my crew was going to seem like by tweets and thru texting and calling individuals,” the worker mentioned. “That’s a very arduous approach to care in your individuals. And managers at Twitter care so much about their individuals.”
A coalition of civil rights teams escalated their calls Friday for manufacturers to pause promoting buys on the platform. The layoffs are significantly harmful forward of the elections, the teams warned, and for transgender customers and different teams dealing with violence impressed by hate speech that proliferates online.
In a tweet Friday, Musk blamed activists for what he described as a “huge drop in income” since he took over Twitter late final week.
Insider Intelligence analyst Jasmine Enberg mentioned there may be “little Musk can say to appease advertisers when he’s maintaining the corporate in a continuing state of uncertainty and turmoil, and seems detached to Twitter workers and the regulation.”
“Musk wants advertisers greater than they want him,” she mentioned. “Pulling advertisements from Twitter is a fast and painless resolution for many manufacturers.”
A lawsuit was filed Thursday in federal court docket in San Francisco on behalf of 1 worker who was laid off and three others who have been locked out of their work accounts. It alleges Twitter violated the regulation by not offering the required discover.
The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification statute requires employers with not less than 100 staff to reveal layoffs involving 500 or extra workers, no matter whether or not an organization is publicly traded or privately held, as Twitter is now.
The layoffs affected Twitter’s workplaces all over the world. In the United Kingdom, it could be required by regulation to offer workers discover, mentioned Emma Bartlett, a accomplice specializing in employment and partnership regulation at CM Murray LLP.
The pace of the layoffs may additionally open Musk and Twitter as much as discrimination claims if it seems, for example, that they disproportionally affected ladies, individuals of shade or older staff.
AP Business Writers Mae Anderson, Alexandra Olson and Ken Sweet in New York, James Pollard in Columbia, S.C., Frank Bajak in Boston and Danica Kirka in London contributed to this story.
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By LINDSAY WHITEHURST, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press will get a $145,000 settlement following a pair of lawsuits filed after an FBI agent posed as a reporter for The Associated Press and created a faux story.
The long-running Freedom of Information Act instances led to appeals court docket selections that may assist bolster entry to public information, stated Adam Marshall, an lawyer for the group. The instances additionally make clear FBI brokers posing as members of the media, a tactic that free press advocates say undermines media credibility and blurs strains between legislation enforcement and the press.
The company did not comply with its personal guidelines over such undercover operations when an agent posed as an AP reporter and despatched a link to a faux story in an investigation in Washington state in 2007, in keeping with paperwork uncovered in the lawsuit filed together with The Associated Press.
Then-FBI Director James Comey known as the approach “correct and acceptable” below FBI pointers on the time, although he stated it might require higher-level approvals when the incident got here to gentle seven years later, in 2014. No precise story was revealed and it led to an arrest, he maintained.
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The agent posing as an AP reporter despatched a link to the faux article to a 15-year-old suspected of creating bomb threats at a highschool. When the teenager clicked the link, a monitoring instrument revealed his pc’s location and helped brokers affirm his id.
The FBI declined to remark Friday.
Kathleen Carroll, then government editor of the AP, stated in 2014 that the FBI’s “unacceptable techniques undermine AP and the important distinction between the federal government and the press.” A letter signed by two dozen news organizations known as the revelations “inexcusable” and the Reporter’s Committee particularly known as out using the AP’s title as “cowl for delivery of digital surveillance software program.”
Lauren Easton, an Associated Press spokeswoman, declined extra remark Friday.
The lawsuits had been filed as a part of an effort to get information about FBI news-media impersonations, and finally resulted in vital court docket selections about how far businesses should go in looking for requested paperwork and the requirements they need to meet in order to withhold paperwork, Marshall stated. The settlement will cowl lawyer’s charges and prices.
“This has proven that there are important, regarding and ongoing points with respect to federal legislation enforcement impersonation of the press in the United States,” Marshall stated. The instances have additionally “proven that the Reporters Committee and The Associated Press had been dedicated to discovering out as a lot as we might about what occurred right here for the general public to know.”
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