“Reviewing is a whole-time job with a half-time salary.” (Cyril Connolly) Half would sound pretty good to me.
Tag: Writing
Belated…
Mini-reviews of new books by Friends- of- Q- Blog, with apologies for now- constant tardiness. Moro Rogers first published book is a graphic novel, City in the Desert . Moro may be trained as an animator, but she has a subtle mind and a deadly sense of humor, and, as one reviewer notes, there is …
Pay the Writer!!
Truest words ever spoken on the subject, by the legendary Harlan Ellison. HT Jules at Writer’s Lifeguard. PAY THE DAMN WRITERS!
Rejection
HT Anne Pearse Hocker:
John Graves, R.I.P.
Henry Chappell just emailed to tell me that John Graves, Texas writer and living legend, just died at (I think) 93. John was a true Texan with deep roots, a civilized man, a WWII vet who had lived in Europe but eventually preferred his roots, a conservationist and localist before such things were chic, and …
J P recovers…. SLOOOWLY– and other writerly blog matters
Get over to Jameson Parker’s to read the latest installment in his account, at times hilarious, always eloquent, sometimes horrifying account of his horse wreck and slow recovery. God, do I identify with him– I am not as hurt and hope I never will be, but my Parkinson’s can at times provide an analogy; and …
Writing quote
“Among the professional hazards of being a book critic is the nap. Naps sneak up on you. They are beautiful but, like recreational drugs and termites, they can undermine the foundations of your existence. Comfortable armchairs are murderous traps.” Dwight Garner, NYT
Quote with a little melancholy
Is it true? From James Salter’s new All That Is. “The power of the novel in the nation’s culture had weakened. It had happened gradually. It was something everyone recognized and ignored. All went on exactly as before, that was the beauty of it. The glory had failed but fresh faces kept appearing, wanting to …
VN
Arthur Wilderson, who knows more about guns that almost anyone, reminded me that Vladimir Nabokov died 36 years ago this week. After I praised his English, more fluid and colloquial than his only rival as a non- native English- speaking novelist in the language (VN would have said American I think), Arthur agreed: “I was …
Storm
The weather is nothing less than hideous. It is the hottest I have seen here; I have experienced daytime temps of 100 once or twice in the past 30 years but it is not cooling off at night, even in our high desert village perch at 6500 feet. It is simultaneously humid and dusty, veiled …