I am an unabashed fan of Terence Hanbury White; whatever his personal faults and agonies, he left a legacy of good books about things that interest me and my friends– probably all naturalists and writers on country matters and falconers who understand honesty. If he had written just the Arthurian trilogy and The Goshawk he …
Tag: Writing
1970’s McGuane Soliloquy # 2
A few old fans have been waiting patiently for this one, from 92 in the Shade. Though not as exhilaratingly visionary or all- inclusive or flat- out FUNNY as the “what I believe in” speech from Bushwhacked Piano, it still rejects the mechanized, overly “rational”, controlling- for- your- own- good* aspects of modern society ( …
Pluvi is back!
And her new book is coming…
Soliloquy
Matthew Makarewicz tipped me to the best barbecue in Kansas City last year, and I really wanted to revisit Nicholas Payne’s soliloquy from Thomas McGuane’s 1971 Bushwhacked Piano , even before he requested it. Now imagine two guys shouting it out in unison in Harvard Square in about 72, laughing so hard they are falling …
Snow
“The mountains paralleled the valley and the snowy peaks were extending with fall to the valley floor.”– Thomas McGuane, Nobody’s Angel Which is at least visually appropriate for this view looking South on Main street to the Magdalena range, which rises from 6500 feet at the village to almost 11, 000 (10, 782 I THINK) …
RIP: Patricia Ryan; 1938- 2014
Nobody I knew ever called her “Patricia”; it was as PAT Ryan that she became famous… Oh, wait a minute. Unless you made a living in the writing trades in the sixties through the eighties, you probably never heard of her. She was the least visible great editor during those years, when you could make …
Good Book Quotes
From Joe Queenan’s One For The Books: “I love to pull my books down off the shelf and read striking passages to baffled dimwits who have turned up at my house.” And: “”Great writers say things that are so beautiful, the very act of repeating them makes life itself more beautiful.”
True…
… unfortunately. From Annie Davidson:
Hilarious…
.. and irreverent true quote, by Rob Macfarlane (who is as fond of Paddy Leigh Fermor as I am): “This was the man whom the travel writer Robert Macfarlane, reviewing Ms. Cooper’s book in The Guardian, called “a mixture of Peter Pan, Forrest Gump, James Bond and Thomas Browne.”
Anthony Bourdain on Guns
Westerners and gun nuts alike will be pleased, as our favorite celebrity chef (and good writer) Anthony Bourdain pens a strong defense of gun ownership, and of our state as well. I’ll excerpt a bunch, but really, this is a classic Read the Whole Thing. Oh, and he is right on Green as chile of …