Annie Hocker sent me this fascinating piece of Hemingway criticism from the New Yorker, in which he calls The Sun Also Rises , at least the new edition, a piece of proto- metafiction. I disagree on definition, but he makes a decent case; it is still a must-read piece for Hemingway fans and scholars, and …
Tag: Writing
Real West
Novelist- rancher- horseman John L. Moore in his Querencia, many miles east of the chic part of Montana. If I were ever driven out of here, that is the first place I would go. These photos were taken by a New York filmmaker, Kelly Colbert, who is doing a documentary on a horse, working title …
Quote
You know the essence of this, from Chandler, but Micah Mattix adds something from a Prufrock last week: “There is no such thing as high or low culture. There is interesting culture and boring culture. There are works of art that show great skill and those that don’t.”
True Writing Quote
From Ron Hansen, quoting John Gardner: “My favorite piece of advice for beginning writers comes from John Gardner, that you should write the fiction you like to read. We immediately recognize phoniness or when a writer’s heart isn’t in the material.”
High Lonesome
This one is for Chad Love, in response to this essay and in thanks for this one .
What I Am Working On
Or at least banging my head against… OLD ways…
Eagle Dreamers
I must assume that ALL my readers have seen some version of this: I have gotten over 100 emails, and they are still coming in. The one most saw was a BBC article (see David Zincavage’s blog), but I like the photographer’s, and his background info. It seems that the wild men of central Asia, …
Frustration
I have tons of material– John Wilson on sending some Mexican wolves to Mexico, with pics; all manner of current events; books to review (Paula Young Lee’s delightful Deer Hunting in Paris is way overdue); more poets to quote– Zarzyski!); foodbloggiing, imminent novels by friends, gyr coming…. And all I seem to do is catchup …
Peter Matthiessen, RIP
Peter Mattthiessen has died at 86. the word had been out that he was not well, but he had been a figure on the horizon for all of us who write about nature for a lifetime, and like Patrick Leigh Fermor it seemed he might go on forever… I thought as a writer he could …
T H White: Endpapers for The Sword and the Stone
Way better than Disney: