Understanding John Gardner (Understanding Contemporary American Literature)
14theditch (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
Was talking to a friend at work last week about Alfred Hitchcock movies. He'd just the night before seen Lifeboat and commented on how un-Hollywood and grim an ending it had. Then we talked about our favorites and there were a lot. He even liked aspects of Frenzy, which I never went for. You may not be a fan of Hitchcock, but I could and have watched a number of his films again and again, pretty much...
Torontoist (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
After a grizzly bear named Samson almost clawed his way from his thirty-five-year-old pen at the Toronto Zoo to freedom Monday night, frustrated keepers are planning to file a work refusal if the zoo refuses to move the bear out of his enclosure. The ministry of labour may have to launch an investigation. "It may also speak to that we have quite a large backlog in state-of-good-repairs—I...
Legal Theory Blog (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Tonight I had dinner with Dennis Patterson (the Chair of Legal Philosophy and Legal Theory at the European University Institute in Fiesole, Italy). We ate at Baldovino, the wonderful trattoria owned by David Gardner, the brother of John Gardner, the...
Mike's Writing Workshop & Newsletter (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Common Storytelling Techniques By Jeanne Lyet Gassman All good stories draw the reader into the writer's world, making the reader forget the creator behind the creation, but how does the writer accomplish this? How does the writer, as John Gardner describes it, establish the "vivid, waking dream"? A successful story makes use of certain storytelling techniques, methods that draw the reader...
GayandRight (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Political correctness trumps everything.... Mayor David Miller on Wednesday waded into a skirmish over gender equality at city hockey rinks, but may soon find himself at the centre of an all-out brawl over how to accommodate the evolution of Canada’s national game into a sport enjoyed by both sexes. In a bid to stand up for the growing legion of girls vying to play hockey on city-owned ice pads,...
my favorite color is shiny (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
today i am grateful for... philipsburg manor sneaking out of the city with friends. chelsea cook , john gardner , and i hopped the train to sleepy hollow, new york for a sunday adventure. chelsea led us to philipsburg manor, a historic house on a sprawling 52, 000 acre plot of land. walking through the cow barn, we were greeted by hanging gourds, corn, herbs, and horsetails. and i met my first barn...
kansas city soil (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
A couple weeks ago, I grabbed John Gardner's The Art of Fiction off of Allie's shelf and started reading. It turned out to be just the thing I needed to get me started writing fiction.I've wanted to write fiction for years. But whenever I try to start, my mind locks up. I become overwhelmed by the immensity of the task ahead of me. Fiction offers so much freedom that it's stifling.Nonfiction, on
LaurenceJarvikOnline (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
The other night, I came home from teaching to find someone I know watching a PBS documentary instead of the World Series. The Botany of Desire , a 1.2 million dollar program, featured our former next-door neighbor on West 110th Street in New York City, now millionaire and bestselling author, Michael Pollan. He was completely unrecognizable, now looking more like bullet-headed former Treasury Secretary...
my favorite color is shiny (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
i love fall. i really do. i love fall. today i am grateful for... 1. finding glitter in my pillowcases and on my husband's flannel shirt... remnants from a glittery halloween party at john gardner's new home! 2. collecting fall leaves to stuff between the pages of my flower press . 3. a lonely oil painting i rescued from the garbage man . 4. a family of apples. momma apple, poppa apple, and baby apple....
Whisky Prajer (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
If you like The Flaming Lips you already own Embryonic . And if you luuuuuuuuuv The Flaming Lips, then you already own the Deluxe Limited Edition , a reprise of an older Lips' stunt that requires the listener to coordinate and play the discs simultaneously on two different systems, to dig the full trippiness of the music. If you don't like the Lips, nothing on this new album is going to change your...
Appalachian History (Free subscription) | 12/10/2009
His beginnings were humble; he was born the son of an immigrant Scottish coal miner in the company town of Lonaconing, MD. But John Gardner Murray (1857-1929) rose to the heights of the Episcopal Church on the national level, becoming the first elected Bishop in 1926. Until the church began electing a Presiding Bishop in 1925, the fifteen previous holders of that office had automatically assumed the...
Powell's Books: Overview (Free subscription) | 04/10/2009
The Sunlight Dialogues by John Gardner Reviewed by Ken from Henrietta, New York.
A Writer's Life (Free subscription) | 04/10/2009
My friend Raymond Benson talks to Buzznews about what it was like to pick up where Ian Fleming & John Gardner left off as author of the Bond novels from 1997-2002. Here's an excerpt: How did you go about laying...
If You Want to Know About My Life... (Free subscription) | 17/09/2009
The creator of impervious Boston P.I. Spenser and imperfect police chief Jesse Stone turns 77 today, and while his latest books are decent individual reads, they're not worth the $9.99 paperback cover price. (Actually, no mass market or "tall" paperback is worth $9.99 to me.) When I first read the Spenser books, Parker's characters seemed so alive, his world so real, I was reluctant to try...
composite drawlings (Free subscription) | 14/09/2009
Go away. When will you be going? Why aren't you already gone? Do you have some sort of hatred for seekers of solitude, that you should stay? Why, why, why are you still here? You came here looking for something. I see. And I should care about this... why? Because only I can give this something to you. Meh. I'm unimpressed. What is it I'm supposed to have that nobody else gives you (besides a tongue-lashing...
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