He Flies Through the Air With the Greatest of Ease: A William Saroyan Reader (William Saroyan Centennial Edition)
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
The Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre does a bang-up job with William Saroyan's "The Time of Your Life," a sprawling barroom drama that captures the harsh, bittersweet and absurd realities confronting eccentric characters on the eve of World War II.
Racine Post (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Root River with D.P. Wigley, from the State Street Bridge Watercolor, ink and pencil, 1939, by Theodore Czebotar By John Dey For RacinePost Racine’s unofficial poet laureate David Kherdian has written a touching portrait of another artistic native son, Theodore Czebotar, whose paintings and sketches of Racine were featured earlier this year by the Mathis Art Gallery downtown. Czebotar’s...
airform archives (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
the january 1955 issue of high fidelity magazine featured a beautiful photograph of william saroyan, recording himself reading one of his own works (jim dandy), in his malibu home, with a view of the ocean. the photograph is connected to a story in the magazine where saroyan discusses the "value" of being able to listen to writers read their own works through recordings, and specifically...
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Interviews and Profiles Writer's Digest interviews Cory Doctorow ( Makers ). The Agony Column interviews Jeremy Lassen . The Sci-Fi Guys Book Review interviews James Enge . (via Pyr Books ) OF Blog of the Fallen interviews David Anthony Durham (part 1). Suvudu interviews Tony Shasteen . Dead Robots' Society interviews Scott Sigler . Jenni Hill interviews Gail Z. Martin . Ghost in the Machine interviews...
ASIFA - Hollywood Animation Archive (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
Two of my best friends, Michael Woodside and Danny Young, are hard at work at Rhythm & Hues putting the finishing touches on animation for the upcoming Alvin & the Chipmunks "squeakquel". I got my start in animation at Bagdasarian Productions producing the NBC Saturday morning series myself, so I've always been interested in the history of the Chipmunks. It's a real-life rags to...
Tuscaloosanews.com (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
By Mark Hughes Cobb Staff Writer William Saroyan crafted 'The Time of Your Life' as an exercise in immediacy. It was of its own time, literally: Staged at New York's Booth Theatre in October 1939, the show is set in October 1939 in San Francisco, where Saroyan wrote it.
Tuscaloosanews.com (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
By Mark Hughes Cobb Staff Writer William Saroyan crafted “The Time of Your Life” as an exercise in immediacy. It was of its own time, literally: Staged at New York’s Booth Theatre in October 1939, the show is set in October 1939 in San Francisco, where Saroyan wrote it.
Running 'Cause I Can't Fly (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
" The whole world and every human being in it is everybody's business. " -William Saroyan,"My Heart's in the Highlands" (1939"
Running 'Cause I Can't Fly (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009
"In the time of your life, live — so that in good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for any life your life touches. Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding-place and let it be free and unashamed. Place in matter and in flesh the least of the values, for these are things that hold death and must pass away. Discover in all things that...
NewPages Blog (Free subscription) | 09/22/2009
In the Grove,the California Poets & Writers Annual, announces that with its summer issue, the publication will now be available online. Editor Lee Herrick explains: "A number of factors have made it appealing—the lower cost, the wider distribution, and the increased legitimacy of online magazines."This issue includes the 2008 William Saroyan Centennial Prize:Creative Nonfiction...
Panarmenian (Free subscription) | 09/17/2009
"We are excited to once again be awarding The Saroyan Prize. We are thrilled to be able to honor Saroyan's legacy through the award," Stanford University Librarian noted.
Gumbo (Free subscription) | 09/09/2009
"Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure." -- William Saroyan
Baxojayz - Centricity (Free subscription) | 08/31/2009
diktat \dik-TAHT\, noun: A harsh settlement unilaterally imposed on a defeated party. An authoritative decree or order. Diktat comes from German, from Latin dictatum, neuter past participle of dictare, "to dictate." It is related to dictator. Burning Envy The expirience often felt by persons not going to Burning Man beacuse they have real life obligations such as jobs, school, kids, etc....
Bill Peschel (Free subscription) | 08/31/2009
B efore Harvard’s Phi Beta Kappa society, poet Ralph Waldo Emerson offers some advice that has since become known as his “American Scholar” address. He urged them: * To think for themselves rather than absorb thought; * To create rather than repeat; * and to this country rather than Europe for cultural models. "We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe ─...
Beyond Meds (Free subscription) | 08/29/2009
“Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.” — William Saroyan Posted in quote of the day
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highman | 05/07/2009
$10,000.00 WILLIAM SAROYAN PRIZE for PLAYWRITING The 2010 Biennial Playwriting Contest William Saroyan THE AWARD The 2nd Biennial William Saroyan Prize for Playwriting ($10,000) will be awarded in 2010 for a stage play based on Armenian themes. Award to be presented publicly at a west coast event administered by the Armenian Dramatic Arts Alliance. A panel of noted industry professionals will select
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