Ace big game hunter Tommy McIntyre (who is disturbed about Burkina Faso the way I am about Turkish Kurdistan , for the same reason and with about as much effect), has been healing his soul by dabbling (I hope he forgives the verb) in Beckett. Here he is in Endgame I thought he might like …
The Illustrious Cripple, the late Bill Wise (so self -described ) amidst haunts and passions…
Bill broke a vertebra surfing with Hobie Alter at 26 and forgot to pay attention. He lived and adventured, shot deer and geese, sailed, collected guns, and built up a wise portfolio. He died at 56 from complications from his quadrieplegia, and left no stone unturned. More : The last are the exquisite Moscow 1890′ …
Bob French, RIP
One of my oldest and best friends, Roberts French, died in Santa Fe a few days ago. I believe he was 84. He survived a year longer than the docs gave him, but the cancer finally wore him down. When I first met Bob and Jenny, in the early seventies at U Mass, Amherst, he …
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“Writers are usually embarrassed when other writers start to “sing”–their profession’s prestige is at stake and the blabbermouths are likely to have the whole wretched truth beat out of them, that they are an ignorant, hysterically egotistical, shamelessly toadying, envious lot who would do almost anything in the world–even write a novel–to avoid an honest …
Walter Becker, RIP
Walter Becker slipped away last year, causing barely a ripple in the media. He was half of the writing team of Steely Dan, along with the more forward Donald Fagen, since their days together at Bard College. Their music defined my 1970s,along with that of many of us who were more cerebral than, say, Eagles …
Inspiration
I am proud to be published by Karen Myers‘ Perkunas Press, and even prouder to be the first writer in her Behind The Ranges imprint. Karen chose her title well. Kipling was my first and is finally my favorite writer; as he wrote about “Janeites”, obsessive fans of Jane Austen, so I am “Rudyardite”, with …
Bird
He looks pretty relaxed these days. Now to find him some quarry…. The next is from another life, forty- some years ago, when I lived in the January Hills, ate roadkill, and edited a journal of Renaissance studies. That’s Cinammon, one of the two best hawks I have ever had, stolen from me not once …
It’s a book!
Tiger Country is available from the publisher, in various formats… and from Amazon here. Some good people have said nice things about it. Malcolm Brooks, the hyper- literate author of Painted Horses, says: “Steve Bodio brings his legendary Renaissance vision to this startling first novel, a work so mammoth in scope and elegant in execution …
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“The land was not to blame. It was up to the individual to decide whether to live here or not…” Chingiz Aitmatov
Ever Closer
It’s coming … I have lost the mustache because it made me look deader than old. Using this pic: