victoria thorne (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
There's a nice synopsis of St. Nicholas here (as mentioned in previous post). From it, we've gleaned our fun fact of the day: "A number of children whose names would later be famous had their first publi-cations in the St. Nicholas League: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edna St. Vincent Millay, William Faulkner, Ring Lardner, and Eudora Welty..." Wishing a very merry birthday to our darling daughter,...
NewPages Blog (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
In 2009, the Eudora Welty Newsletter from Georgia State University metamorphosed into the Eudora Welty Review, an annual journal, published each April. The innaugural issue contains essays chosen from past Eudora Welty Newsletters.Beginning in 2010, the Eudora Welty Review will publish lengthier scholarly essays, inaugurate a book review section, and maintain regular features for news and notes,
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
Call it the Eudora Welty Effect. Four years ago, when Alice Munro hinted that The View From Castle Rock might be the last of her short-story collections, she set the hearts of graduate students going pitty-pat through the carrels of all the English Lit departments. Thesis time! Lots of references, to Chekov, to regionalism, to outsiders and isolates. All earned but beside the point.
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
''The two books I keep returning to as guides for thinking through my novel-in-progress are Eudora Welty's The Optimist's Daughter and William Maxwell's So Long, See You Tomorrow.''
Portland (OR) Daily Photo (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
After lunch, which many Southerners call dinner, we made a stop at the Fred's Store in McComb. Why, we wondered. Milton's answer was something along the lines of, "If I get what I want, I'll show you. I'm going to see if I can get something for free." Huh? All I can say, is come back later on, and I'll show you just what he ended up getting for free. I couldn't resist these clouds disappearing...
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
"In an online poll conducted by the National Book Foundation, [Flannery O'Connor's] collection 'The Complete Stories' was named the best work to have won the National Book Award for fiction in the contest's 60-year history." The competition was formidable: collected stories of John Cheever, William Faulkner and Eudora Welty as well as Ellison's Invisible Man and Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow....
Bibliobibuli (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
The National Book Award winners were announced November 18 during a ceremony in New York City. These are probably the major US awards after the Pulitzer Prize, and there are several categories. The prize for fiction went to Irish author Colum McCann for Let the Great World Spin , which is based on life in New York City in the 1970s. The piece was described as an "indelibly hallucinatory portrait...
Mid-Atlantic English (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
In a recent post on She's Not From Yorkshire American yankeebean writes that her grandma is a British war bride who moved to the States after WWII and has lived there ever since. When yankeebean was planning a move to the UK, she asked her grandma how long it took her to feel American and her grandma replied, 'Ten years.' Yankeebean goes on to say she feels she is now at a place where she can accept...
Tripping Toward Lucidity (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
So my birthday is coming up on November 10 th. The big 2-9. S ince the actual birthday is on a Tuesday, Chuck decided to take me out for a celebratory lunch today, and we did a bit of running around. I think we're also planning a birthday get together next weekend, but I'll report on the later. We started our day at the Clay Pit in Addison. It's one of my favorite Indian restaurants, and they have...
Isak (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
In dialogue about dialogue, with the incomparable Eudora Welty: INTERVIEWER Where does [your] dialogue come from? WELTY Familiarity. Memory of the way things get said. Once you have heard certain expressions, sentences, you almost never forget them. It’s like sending a bucket down the well and it always comes up full. You don’t know you’ve remembered, but you have. And you listen...
Maggie Reads (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
A gain, I am reminded of the diverse talent Mississippi has to offer after flipping through the photographs of Gloria Norris' new book "Highway 51: Mississippi Hill Country." The coffee-table-size book is a collection of her camera work that is testament to all the singers and writers who made their homes along the mainline between Jackson and Memphis. She spreads a wide net at times. The...
ZYZZYVASPEAKS (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Budget cuts have forced the Southern Review (and the LSU Press) to retrench. See the Poets & Writers report here . SR will cut back on travel, advertising, and office supplies. Will reduce page count from 2oo (or 220) to 180. Cancel some readings and other events planned to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the magazine and convert others from free to "fund-raising opportunities." "Everything...
Democralypse Now (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Another day, another double-consonant named Republican acts like a moron and reminds us why we should never trust public officials with unnecessary additional letters in their names. Asked about his participation in the Congressional Sportsmen Caucus during an interview with Politico, Mississippi Republican Rep. Gregg Harper replied: "We hunt liberal, tree-hugging Democrats, although it does...
Wonkette (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
Do yourself a “favor” and scan through this interview with freshman Rep. Gregg Harper, Republican of Mississippi, on the POLITICO CLICK WEBSITE. Question: “What in the world does the Congressional Sportsmen’s Caucus do?” Answer: “We hunt liberal, tree-hugging Democrats, although it does seem like a waste of good ammunition.” Haw haw fags. Who is your [...]...
Irregular Tammie (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
I've been reading a lot lately. I guess that's what you do when you're trying to not spend money. You read. Here's a short run down of what I've read in the last month. * Mississippi Sissy This book is the memoir of Kevin Sessums, who has done editorial work for such magazines as Allure and Vanity Fair. It's all about his childhood and coming of age in Mississippi in the sixties and seventies. This...
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