From an obit of the novelist Michael Malone:Mr. Malone recalled that “the most important thing ever said to me as a writer” came from author Eudora Welty, whom he met at a Yale literary gathering in the late 1970s. When Welty learned that Mr. Malone had written three novels, none set in his native North Carolina, she advised him to “let your fiction grow out of the land beneath your feet.” He soon started working on “Uncivil Seasons,” which he described as “the first novel of mine to be set in that Red Clay country, that landscape of my childhood imagination.”A few years later, he drove from his home in North Carolina to Welty’s house in Jackson, Miss., to say thank you. He sat there for hours but “was too shy to go ring the doorbell,” he told the Journal. Eventually he drove home. He didn’t tell Welty about the episode until years later, when he happened to spot her in the lobby of New York’s Algonquin Hotel. “She looked at me and smiled,” he recalled, “and she said: ‘Oh honey, was that you? I almost called the police on you.’”
I was just reading THE LIBRARIAN SPY.
Quote from: elmore3003 on August 23, 2022, 07:05:13 AMI love Eudora Welty, and that's a wonderful story, DR JohnG.I do, too. I had never heard of Malone before reading the obit. He won awards for his writing on One Life to Live, addressing issue such as AIDS and sexual assault.
I love Eudora Welty, and that's a wonderful story, DR JohnG.
Quote from: John G. on August 23, 2022, 06:41:42 AMFrom an obit of the novelist Michael Malone:Mr. Malone recalled that “the most important thing ever said to me as a writer” came from author Eudora Welty, whom he met at a Yale literary gathering in the late 1970s. When Welty learned that Mr. Malone had written three novels, none set in his native North Carolina, she advised him to “let your fiction grow out of the land beneath your feet.” He soon started working on “Uncivil Seasons,” which he described as “the first novel of mine to be set in that Red Clay country, that landscape of my childhood imagination.”A few years later, he drove from his home in North Carolina to Welty’s house in Jackson, Miss., to say thank you. He sat there for hours but “was too shy to go ring the doorbell,” he told the Journal. Eventually he drove home. He didn’t tell Welty about the episode until years later, when he happened to spot her in the lobby of New York’s Algonquin Hotel. “She looked at me and smiled,” he recalled, “and she said: ‘Oh honey, was that you? I almost called the police on you.’”I've always enjoyed Malone's work. Do read UNCIVIL SEASONS and HANDLING SIN. HANDLING SIN is a hoot. His work should be better known; it's very good.
And are you all familiar with the Little Libraries that some people install in their front yards? You may take a book or leave a book -- free. There's one on my stomping ground which I sometimes use.
Quote from: Jane on August 23, 2022, 03:30:08 PMWhy do you say "still read"? I hope they do as it is a wonderful book. I also enjoyed the movie.Sondheim reference. Instead of “still wear a hat.”I’ll drink to that.
Why do you say "still read"? I hope they do as it is a wonderful book. I also enjoyed the movie.
Writers are often told, "Write what you know." Since most writers love books bookstores and libraries are a natural.
Furious. https://boingboing.net/2022/08/23/book-banned-at-a-school-named-after-its-author.html
My dessert tonight is a citrus tres leches cake.
