Burn ‘em (or don’t become famous)
Posted on January 25, 2007 - Filed Under Death, Writers | Leave a Comment
A large collection of Willa Cather’s letters have been donated to the University of Nebraska (despite her instructions for them to never be reprinted – which I guess is slightly different). This article gives a few revelations here and there including that “She had written the epilogue of “Sapphira and the Slave Girl” five years [...]
Read More..>>Lost & Found
Posted on January 23, 2007 - Filed Under Art, Crime, Writers | Leave a Comment
The Gaurdian reports “The novellist Ian McEwan has discovered that a bricklayer is the older brother he never knew he had, following the man’s quest to uncover his roots.”, but the real juicy part is in the correction: “The novelist Ian McEwan was educated in a state school, not a private one”. I give it [...]
Read More..>>bring back dick lit?
Posted on January 9, 2007 - Filed Under Kids These Days, Writers | Leave a Comment
The Rake, in excellent form, on “confessional fatherhood”: Take, for example, Pollack*. His shtick has been consistently clownish, but you have to remember that he’s the very special scold who came out a few years ago against writerly post-9/11 pontification on the War on Terror. To be specific, he told everyone to shut the fuck [...]
Read More..>>Sounds like a Par-Tay
Posted on December 1, 2006 - Filed Under Mark Your Calendars, Writers | Leave a Comment
Bring on the clowns. Saturday, the Omaha Public Library will pay homage to one of Nebraska’s greatest writers when it celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Willa Cather Library, 1905 S. 44th St. The public is invited to attend the celebration from 2 to 4 p.m. Cake, cookies, punch and coffee will be served. Two [...]
Read More..>>Can’t Hear it on the Radio
Posted on October 26, 2006 - Filed Under Art, Perception, Writers | Leave a Comment
On the one hand, writers: The real writers, you don’t even know them. The only writers that you hear about are fake fucks. All those guys are real peanut. Most writers that are real won’t take shit from no one. In other words, we’re free. In order to be a real artist, you have to [...]
Read More..>>and they didn’t so he died
Posted on October 25, 2006 - Filed Under Birth, Death, Music, Writers | Leave a Comment
By way of Books, Inq, I see today is the late John Berryman’s birthday. Since Sgt. Schultz knows more about poets than I do, I admit not knowing about him until a Hold Steady show in San Diego last year. But better late than never, no? the devil and john berryman took a walk together [...]
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