We Don’t Regret The Error
Posted on May 11, 2009 - Filed Under Death, Liberal Media Conspiracies, Writers | Leave a Comment
Bogus quote entered into wikipedia. “Journalists” around the globe cut-n-paste. Wikipedia fixes error. Newspapers, not so much. So far, The Guardian is the only publication to make a public mea culpa, while others have eliminated or amended their online obituaries without any reference to the original version — or in a few cases, still are [...]
Read More..>>post, memory
Posted on February 24, 2009 - Filed Under Music, Vagaries of the Heart, Writers | Leave a Comment
random links, etc…. Roger Ebert remembers Gene Siskel, who died February 20, 1999:“We almost always thought the same things were funny. That may be the best sign of intellectual communion.” Facebook 25 things note win Lucero concert MP3s (Feb. 6, 2009) at nyctaper. Jonathan Baumbach at The New You Project: “It’s always hard to like [...]
Read More..>>Speechifyin’
Posted on February 18, 2009 - Filed Under Music, Writers | Leave a Comment
Haruki Murakami, in his acceptance speech for the Jerusalem Prize. I have only one reason to write novels, and that is to bring the dignity of the individual soul to the surface and shine a light upon it. … Take a moment to think about this. Each of us possesses a tangible, living soul. The [...]
Read More..>>My Inner Joan Crawford Vehicle
Posted on February 12, 2009 - Filed Under Music, Vagaries of the Heart, Writers | Leave a Comment
As I count down the days to John Darnielle with Tobias Wolff, there is this video taken from a nice trove of recordings form some sort of singer/songwriter cruise? {via}
Read More..>>Flannery O’Connor Audio
Posted on February 2, 2009 - Filed Under Writers | 8 Comments
Twitter saves the Monday, with this tweet from girlswritenow. RT @jaycolle: Audio file of Flannery O’Connor reading A Good Man is Hard to Find. Download this gem here: http://tinyurl.com/cdyxhp Some quick googling found a likely source, that had some more notes. Apparently this reading was recorded off a radio broadcast from Notre Dame not too [...]
Read More..>>Native Son, Revised
Posted on January 26, 2009 - Filed Under Books, Liberal Media Conspiracies, Sex, Writers | Leave a Comment
I hadn’t been aware that there were different versions of Native Son. So now, I have as good a reason as any to re-read the book. In the meantime, I’ll think a bit on the question of when “editing” ends and “expurgation” begins. Reading through the appendix, as it turns out the book was originally [...]
Read More..>>Up Around The Bend
Posted on January 21, 2009 - Filed Under Books, Music, Writers | Leave a Comment
roundin’ up, yo: 200th birthday props for EA Poe at Amoeba blog Also at Amoeba, a look at the Mats’ Let It Be and questions (some of) its timelessness. At LitKicks, Levi posted another selection from his upcoming memoir. It took me back (16 years – gasp!) to fond memories of Charles Isbell’s Homeboy From [...]
Read More..>>true dat
Posted on October 27, 2008 - Filed Under Pain, Philosophy, Theology, Writers | Leave a Comment
Marilynne Robinson in an interview in The Paris Review INTERVIEWER You’ve also written that Americans tend to avoid contemplating larger issues. What is it that we’re afraid of? ROBINSON People are frightened of themselves. It’s like Freud saying that the best thing is to have no sensation at all, as if we’re supposed to live [...]
Read More..>>Please see Kim :)
Posted on August 15, 2008 - Filed Under Pain, Photographs, Writers | Leave a Comment
I got a glimpse of this walking the dog–someone was kind enough to upload the photo to the web for me. (CRED)
Read More..>>TEV in SF tonight
Posted on June 19, 2008 - Filed Under Books, Mark Your Calendars, Writers | Leave a Comment
Mark Sarvas reads from Harry, Revised at Cafe Royale tonight. Blogged with the Flock Browser
Read More..>>John Updike: Early Sabermetrician?
Posted on March 31, 2008 - Filed Under Liberal Media Conspiracies, Sports, Statistics, Writers | Leave a Comment
Joe Posnanski sez: I’ve always thought that the patron saint of “clutch hitting is a myth†is not Bill James at all, but rather the author John Updiike. In his famous, “Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu†story about Ted Williams final game, he wrote: “For me, Williams is the classic ballplayer of the game on [...]
Read More..>>AL Kennedy interview
Posted on January 29, 2008 - Filed Under Writers | Leave a Comment
AL Kennedy gets The Bat Segundo treatment.
Read More..>>that’s important…to be tasteful
Posted on January 7, 2008 - Filed Under Writers | Leave a Comment
“I want it to be a household name, where people start when they’re looking for an author, a book or what people are saying about current ideas or events,” said Madison over lunch at Absinthe, a few doors down from Redroom’s tasteful offices in San Francisco’s Hayes Valley. “Because we have the writers, we have [...]
Read More..>>then there were three
Posted on November 9, 2007 - Filed Under Language, Turf Wars, Writers | Leave a Comment
1. Texarkana 2. Michiana 3. Kerouaciana
Read More..>>better chatter?
Posted on October 12, 2007 - Filed Under Ask The Internet, Writers | Leave a Comment
Joe Morgan or James Patterson? I like who JP seems to follow JM’s MO of making an assertion and then following up with a question encouraging you to “stay tuned”. (Part of the blame falls on “R. Johnson:” for confusing the situation with a multi-part question) Q: Why is it that the leading protagonist of [...]
Read More..>>David Leavitt in Berkeley (and San Francisco)
Posted on September 16, 2007 - Filed Under Books, Mark Your Calendars, Writers | Leave a Comment
UPDATE: I see he’ll also be in San Francisco on Tuesday, September 18th. My interest has been piqued for David Levitt’s The Indian Clerk after a week of coverage at The Elegant Variation. I don’t think I’ll be able to make it, unfortunately. Now I’ll just have to wait for the paperback. Monday, September 17, [...]
Read More..>>rules, random
Posted on September 7, 2007 - Filed Under Music, Writers | Leave a Comment
hearing Coltrane on the bus in KC Okkervil River at The Independent in San Francisco playing the alternate version of Our Life Is Not A Movie, or Maybe that Conan O’Brien BANNED. George Saunders talking Twain at maudnewton.com: MN: You’re stranded on a desert island and for entertainment you’re allowed only twigs, stones, native birds [...]
Read More..>>It’s kind of dangerous to be an M.C.
Posted on August 11, 2007 - Filed Under Death, Statistics, Writers | Leave a Comment
Indeed, because an earlier productive optimum means that a writer can die younger without loss to his or her ultimate reputation, poets exhibit a life expectancy, across the globe and through history, about a half dozen years less than prose writers do.
Read More..>>Kitchen 2.0
Posted on April 19, 2007 - Filed Under Writers | Leave a Comment
Finally, an “Internet Appliance” for the people!
Read More..>>Omaha Blues
Posted on February 8, 2007 - Filed Under Art, Books, Music, Now Reading, Pain, Writers | Leave a Comment
I’m about halfway through the paperback of former NY Times executive editor Joseph Lelyveld’s Omaha Blues: A Memory Loop. So far, so good -though Omaha doesn’t play many roles in this memoir other than being the place Lelyveld defines himself as being from (no small role, though) – a memory of being from somewhere else. [...]
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