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NEVER KNOWINGLY UNDERSOLD: As if the Cobain Journals weren't enough, prepare yourself for Courtney Love's Diaries, coming to a book store near you. Courtney's literary agent [polite cough] David Vigliano, is doing his best to raise interest in the project, and thereby raise the price:

"The book features Courtney's legendary writings that have been whispered and wondered about for years," Vigliano said, "but that no one has ever seen. They're like the literary equivalent of Bob Dylan's Bootleg Series."

Except, of course, a Dylan bootleg is interesting in its own right, something fragile and unheard. Since we're expecting Courtney's book (a "mishmash" of diary entries, love letters and probation reports) to be pretty much a lot of screaming and half-assed hurt and hurting nonesense, we're not sure where the new stuff will be here. Vigliano hasn't finished pitching yet, mind:

"This is too big a life to be contained by a standard autobiography," Vigliano said. "Love's life bridges the worlds of punk rock and Hollywood glamour, high fashion and San Francisco hippiedom. No other person's life touches so many cultures or such a broad cast of characters — from Julian Cope and Alex Cox to Milos Forman and Marlon Brando."

We would be kind of interested to see what she wrote the day after she beat up David Gedge, I guess...