The last few days I have been working on an essay for the Re:Print department of Pop Matters, tentatively titled Ernest Hemingway’s Mystic Communion; the topic, inspired by Terry Mort’s non-fiction work, The Hemingway Patrols, concerned with the celebrated author’s quixotic pursuit of German U-boats off the coastal waters of Cuba during World War II, [...]
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Two Trace Stories Revisited for Momentary Relevance
Posted: January 21, 2011 by Rodger Jacobs in Pop Matters, What We're Reading TonightTags: David Ulin, Ernest Hemingway, fiction, Library of America, Los Angeles fiction, Pop Matters, Rodger Jacobs, Santa Monica Pier, Terry Mort, The Hemingway Patrols, Writing L.A.
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Down at the Dog Iron Ranch
Posted: November 4, 2010 by Rodger Jacobs in Hideous Music and the Sound of Many Shotguns, Las Vegas Sun, Pop Matters, What We're Reading Tonight“We are the first nation to starve to death in a storehouse filled with everything we want.” Will Rogers, 1935 Today, November 4, is the birthday of American humorist Will Rogers, born to a prominent Indian territory family on the Dog Iron Ranch in what is now Oklahoma on this date in 1879. If the [...]
The Sanctity of the Narrative
Posted: September 21, 2010 by finistere in this may sound foolish here, What We're Reading TonightI read Tom Jones in high school. It was a chance read: I remember seeing it on a bookshelf a bookstore at Old Towne Mall in Torrance and getting the impression immediately that it was funny. It was. What captivated me instantly about it was the way each of the “books”, into which it is [...]
Ol’ ’55
Posted: September 20, 2010 by finistere in Legends, this may sound foolish here, Uncategorized, What We're Reading TonightRecently while looking for some info (cued by Rodger) on Georges Simenon, I encountered this interview in the Paris Review from Summer 1955. The interview stands by itself as a precious relic that may even today have transformational powers if you read the right hoodoo found within it. For instance, Simenon says: That is why, [...]
Hello.
Posted: September 19, 2010 by finistere in Hideous Music and the Sound of Many Shotguns, Legends, Strange Medicine on the Desert, What We're Reading Tonight, Work in ProgressThis is not Rodger Jacobs. Rodger’s fine and I’ve not put him anywhere. As far as I know, neither has anyone else. The author of this post is the guy in Rodger’s commentariat you may already know as Joseph. I have stepped in as a guest blogger here while Rodger and Lela deal with words [...]
