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: 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 MISPLACED LIFE: THE JOYS OF WRITING
“It is a truth only fitfully acknowledged that whom the godswish to destroy, they first give an opinion column.” Parul Sehgal. The New Yorker (October 21, 2024)** STORY TELLING & SELF KNOWLEDGE I believe most of us tell a story about our lives and then come to live within that story. You can’t know whoContinue reading “BITS & PIECES OF MISPLACED LIFE: THE JOYS OF WRITING”
BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: THE JOYS OF READING
DO NOT EAT THIS BOOK”Menelik II,the emperor of Ethiopia at the turn of the century,liked to chew pages from the Bible. Unfortunately, he died after consuming the complete Book of Kings.”Anne Fadiman. Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader(New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998)**ON BOOK REVIEWERS”Nothing but a bunch of ex-obituary writers.” John P.Continue reading “BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: THE JOYS OF READING”
BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: THE JOY OF WRITING
“Alex Trocchi urged aspiring writers to go off and spend a year playing pinball. I always thought that this was verygood advice, but I could never explain even to myself, why it made such sense…”Tom McCarthy. TYPEWRITERS BOMBS JELLYFISH(New York: New York Review Books,2017)**”Anybody that admires Thomas Wolfe can be expected to like good fictionContinue reading “BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: THE JOY OF WRITING”
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