CELEBRATING THE PUBLICATION OF A NOVELWRITTEN BY AN AMERICAN AUTHOR”The first novel by a writer born in America was The Life of Harriet Stuart by Charlotte Ramsey Lennox, published in two volumes in London 1751….This novel, her first, was a semiautobiographical romance. Samuel Johnson, an eminent English writer, was a personal friend of hers andContinue reading “BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: THE JOYS OF WRITING”
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BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: FILM #30
“A movie imprisons your eyes. It acts on you , and you on it. Hence, you don’t ‘see’ or ‘look at’ a movie. You watch it the way a cat watches a bird until the cat strikes, kills, eats.” Leonard Michaelsquoted in Lifelines: A Commonplace Book by Charles Cherry**THE MINIDRESS SHOWN IN FORBIDDEN PLANETThe minidressContinue reading “BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: FILM #30”
BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: WORDS, WORDS, WORDS
cold turkey”without preparation,” 1910; narrower sense of “withdrawal from an addictive substance” (originally heroin) first recorded 1921. Cold turkey is a food that requires little preparation, so “to quit like cold turkey” is to do so suddenly and without preparation. Online Etymological Dictionary**Hanukkah Means “Dedication”The word “Hanukkah” is a transliteration of the Hebrew word forContinue reading “BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: WORDS, WORDS, WORDS”
BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: SHAKESPEARE
SHAKESPEARE AND WILD GEESE”I, also, want to use one of the Fool’s lines as a title for something — ‘Winter’s not gone yet, if the wild geese fly that way.’ Can’t think how to shorten it. “Is there any connection between wild geese and Lady Wildgoose? Lady W and her sister Lady Sandy tried, inContinue reading “BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: SHAKESPEARE”
BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: FOOD & DRINK
FROM ICELAND “…hakari , which is shark meat allegedly buried in the sand, and then preserved by fishermen who urinate on it as they go by every day for a few months, until it is truly inedible to everyone but Icelanders.” Jane Smiley. “Alone in Iceland” in BETTER THAN FICTION 2: True Adventures fromContinue reading “BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: FOOD & DRINK”
BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: NEW YORK CITY
NEW YORK CITY (Circa 1000 B.C.E.)”Some of the first humans to New York City arrive in canoes in 1000 B.C.E. , paddling across the wide river from another island (and the region that is now Brooklyn), through thick reeds to ‘Mamhatta’ or ‘hilly island,’ and its vedant forests of oaks, and trees, spruces, cedars, andContinue reading “BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: NEW YORK CITY”
BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: SHAKESPEARE
WHY SO MANY PRODUCTIONS OF SHAKESPEARE’S PLAYS UNTIL AFTER WORLD WAR I WERE SO-CALLED TRADITONAL PRODUCTIONS”It used to fire my imagination when I realized that our stage ‘business’ was derived from the actual business used in Shakespeare’s time. Benson played with Irving, who had in his company an actor who had played with Kean. HeContinue reading “BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: SHAKESPEARE”
BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: THE JOYS OF READING
** “Reading was such a wonderful thing that to have made a life around the experience was almost criminal and it was so fortunate.” Elizabeth Hardwick ** THE CREATOR OF THE WIZARD OF OZ PREDICTEDTHE INVENTION OF THE CELL PHONE Baum wrote dozens of other novels and short stories, and he had a knackContinue reading “BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: THE JOYS OF READING”
BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: THE JOYS OF WRITING
THE MOST URGENT QUESTION FOR A WRITER The most urgent question for a writer may seem to be, What experiences do I have as my material, what experiences do I feel able tonarrate? But that’s not right. The most pressing question is, What is the word, what is the rhythm of the sentence, what toneContinue reading “BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: THE JOYS OF WRITING”
BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: THE JOYS OF WRITING
“I didn’t know you could do this! I didn’t know you could write this way! It was so open. So close to the bone. So convesational . The Catcher in the Rye showed me you could write to someone you’d never met as if you were talking to someone you’d always known.”Elizabeth Berg in TheContinue reading “BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: THE JOYS OF WRITING”
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