page from THE NEW CENTURY DICTIONARY For words, like Nature, half revealAnd half conceal the soul within. Alfred Lord Tennysonquoted in metaphors be with you by Mardy Grothe (New York: Harper, 2016)**COMIC BOOK SLANGSplash Panel — ” The first panel of a comic book story, larger (sometimes, or full page) than the other panels; itContinue reading “BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: WORDS,WORDS, WORDS”
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BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: THE JOYS OF WRITING
ADVICE ON BECOMING A WRITER”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 expectedContinue reading “BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: THE JOYS OF WRITING”
BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: SHAKESPEARE
SHAKESPEARE’S MANUSCRIPTS”Not a single Shakespeare manuscript survives, so, as withChaucer, we cannot be sure how closely the work we know is really Shakespeare’s. Hemming and Condell consulted any number of sources to produce their folio — printers’ manuscripts, actors’ promptbooks, even the memoriers of other actors. But from what happened to the work of otherContinue reading “BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: SHAKESPEARE”
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”
BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: FILM #27
IT’S DIFFICULT FOR FILM STARS TO PROTECT THEIR PRIVACY ROBERT REDFORD “had become secretive. Not only did I know him, our wives knew each other, so did our kids. And he had asked me to come to Utah for the month to work with him — —–And he wouldn’t give me his phone number. Continue reading “BITS & PIECES OF A MISPLACED LIFE: FILM #27”
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