|
Post by Kimby on Dec 26, 2020 21:55:07 GMT
|
|
|
Post by bixaorellana on Dec 27, 2020 0:35:13 GMT
That is a particularly lovely obituary.
|
|
|
Post by bjd on Dec 27, 2020 7:49:05 GMT
I saw yesterday that Alison Lurie died this year. Don't remember seeing anything about it. I liked her books: wonderful portraits of quiet people with interesting depths.
|
|
|
Post by casimira on Dec 27, 2020 19:40:35 GMT
I saw yesterday that Alison Lurie died this year. Don't remember seeing anything about it. I liked her books: wonderful portraits of quiet people with interesting depths. I am not familiar with her wok BJD but, am making note of her to explore some of her work. Thanks!!!
|
|
|
Post by bixaorellana on Dec 27, 2020 20:32:38 GMT
I remember seeing her obituary, but don't remember ever reading one of her books, so I appreciate the recommendation, Bjd. I'm a big fan of Anita Brookner, whose work could be described the same way you describe Lurie's.
|
|
|
Post by casimira on Jan 9, 2021 14:38:19 GMT
I saw yesterday that Alison Lurie died this year. Don't remember seeing anything about it. I liked her books: wonderful portraits of quiet people with interesting depths. Right after reading your post I ran across a used copy of Alison Lurie's Foreign Affairs.I'm very much looking forward to delving into this new (to me) author.
|
|
|
Post by casimira on Jan 9, 2021 14:46:50 GMT
Also of note, Neil Sheehan, an American reporter for the NY Times and obtained The Pentagon Papers which he used as the basis for his brilliant chronicle of the Vietnam war, Bright and Shining Lie, passed away this past week at the age of 84.
|
|
|
Post by patricklondon on Jan 9, 2021 15:17:56 GMT
|
|
|
Post by bjd on Jan 9, 2021 16:10:49 GMT
I saw yesterday that Alison Lurie died this year. Don't remember seeing anything about it. I liked her books: wonderful portraits of quiet people with interesting depths. Right after reading your post I ran across a used copy of Alison Lurie's Foreign Affairs.I'm very much looking forward to delving into this new (to me) author. That was the book I started with too, Casi.
|
|
|
Post by breeze on Jan 9, 2021 23:13:50 GMT
Patrick, I bought Katharine Whitehorn's bedsitter cookbook while we were on a long camping trip, thinking it would be useful for camp stove cooking and it was. Bedsitter cookery has a lot in common with a Camping Gaz setup--just one burner, no actual work surface, and the difficulty of washing up. Very entertainingly written as well as being practical. That's where I learned the word 'wonky.' The need to put coins in a gas meter line baffled me at first but I figured it out.
|
|
|
Post by fumobici on Feb 24, 2021 6:09:48 GMT
Can't imagine what it might be. There is nothing remotely sad about the passing of any centenarian. That's maxing it out.
|
|
|
Post by questa on Feb 24, 2021 7:06:01 GMT
I'm amazed he got to the age he did. Poets don't seem to be long-lived as a rule. The Beat generation must be fading away now, thank heavens they left us with great stories and poems, and a name for our Kerouac 2.
|
|
|
Post by kerouac2 on Feb 24, 2021 10:54:31 GMT
Every time I have been to San Francisco, I have gone to City Lights Books and usually bought something.
|
|
|
Post by Kimby on Feb 24, 2021 13:34:58 GMT
Lawrence Ferlinghetti poem
The Changing Light
The changing light at San Francisco is none of your East Coast light none of your pearly light of Paris The light of San Francisco is a sea light an island light And the light of fog blanketing the hills drifting in at night through the Golden Gate to lie on the city at dawn And then the halcyon late mornings after the fog burns off and the sun paints white houses with the sea light of Greece with sharp clean shadows making the town look like it had just been painted But the wind comes up at four o'clock sweeping the hills
And then the veil of light of early evening
And then another scrim when the new night fog floats in And in that vale of light the city drifts anchorless upon the ocean
|
|
|
Post by bixaorellana on Mar 26, 2021 22:26:38 GMT
|
|
|
Post by bixaorellana on Mar 26, 2021 22:30:15 GMT
|
|
|
Post by bixaorellana on Mar 31, 2021 15:22:06 GMT
|
|
|
Post by lagatta on May 29, 2021 0:04:17 GMT
|
|
|
Post by bixaorellana on May 29, 2021 3:14:42 GMT
" the newsreader added: “As we all know, he’s one of the most important writers in the English language – for me the master." You go, girl!
|
|
|
Post by Kimby on Dec 12, 2021 16:05:06 GMT
|
|
|
Post by kerouac2 on Dec 12, 2021 16:53:11 GMT
Yes, I saw that. The vampire books.
|
|
|
Post by Kimby on Dec 12, 2021 21:23:57 GMT
I liked her Witch books better, and when those stories intertwined with the Vampire stories even better.
|
|
|
Post by kerouac2 on Dec 23, 2021 18:36:33 GMT
Joan Didion has died at age 87.
|
|
|
Post by casimira on Dec 23, 2021 23:45:46 GMT
Yes, I read about Ms. Didion's death earlier on today. I loved her work so very much and have a vivid memory of taking a course during my freshman year of college about women writers. We were assigned reading Play It As It Lays and I was then sold on her writing.
One thing in particular that I can say without a doubt is how she was able to write about "grief" more than any writer I have ever read.
RIP Joan.
|
|
|
Post by Kimby on Dec 24, 2021 0:47:36 GMT
I read her YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING, her memoir after her husband died.
Yet another victim of Parkinson’s Disease.
|
|
|
Post by patricklondon on Jun 21, 2022 14:55:41 GMT
|
|
|
Post by casimira on Jun 21, 2022 16:08:11 GMT
Her writing is very appealing. thank you, Patrick, for drawing your attention to her.
|
|
|
Post by lugg on Aug 10, 2022 21:27:04 GMT
|
|
|
Post by kerouac2 on Sept 7, 2022 16:32:59 GMT
Best selling horror novelist Peter Straub has died at age 79.
|
|
|
Post by casimira on Sept 23, 2022 14:22:51 GMT
|
|