What we are facing into is an electronic version of The Burning of The Great Books of The Western World, albeit more slowly and on a non-linear trajectory. One subject of my next essay. This outcome is no accident.
In the mean time and perhaps of interest . . .
Of Washington's lost Ukrainian Proxy War to weaken Russia and pillage its resources, perhaps the greatest and most feckless imperial play, something of a progress update.
The long and rich history of the contemporary genocides of the cultured, cultivated Europeans, The Americans and the Brits., to nominate yet a few.
I've been carrying around a paperback copy of "In Shelly's Leg" for about 20 years. It's still unread. Which is crazy to me since I live just a softball pitch away from Missoula. Your mention of Sara Vogan's book has made me think I need to go unbury that Leg and read it.
I first knew Sara when she was dating Kittredge. Later she did some time in Montana's Writers in Schools program, as I did. She went to CA and taught at SF State and we traded story drafts often. My first collection was with University if IL Press and I connected Ann Weir there with Sara and they published her collection, SCENES FROM THE HOMEFRONT (1987). She had two other novels, LOSS OF FLIGHT (1989) and BLUEPRINTS (1990). She died in 1991 (age 43). Sad story, not a happy life overall. But she was a good friend. I haven't read ISL in many years--have no idea what I'd make of it now, but for certain it would call up a time and a place. Do read it.
You deserve more reader comments, D.L.
The problem - who reads?
What we are facing into is an electronic version of The Burning of The Great Books of The Western World, albeit more slowly and on a non-linear trajectory. One subject of my next essay. This outcome is no accident.
In the mean time and perhaps of interest . . .
Of Washington's lost Ukrainian Proxy War to weaken Russia and pillage its resources, perhaps the greatest and most feckless imperial play, something of a progress update.
The long and rich history of the contemporary genocides of the cultured, cultivated Europeans, The Americans and the Brits., to nominate yet a few.
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I've been carrying around a paperback copy of "In Shelly's Leg" for about 20 years. It's still unread. Which is crazy to me since I live just a softball pitch away from Missoula. Your mention of Sara Vogan's book has made me think I need to go unbury that Leg and read it.
I first knew Sara when she was dating Kittredge. Later she did some time in Montana's Writers in Schools program, as I did. She went to CA and taught at SF State and we traded story drafts often. My first collection was with University if IL Press and I connected Ann Weir there with Sara and they published her collection, SCENES FROM THE HOMEFRONT (1987). She had two other novels, LOSS OF FLIGHT (1989) and BLUEPRINTS (1990). She died in 1991 (age 43). Sad story, not a happy life overall. But she was a good friend. I haven't read ISL in many years--have no idea what I'd make of it now, but for certain it would call up a time and a place. Do read it.