tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4712020692687276596.post3694195494337272601..comments2023-11-14T13:03:49.351-08:00Comments on Miriam Levine: Dinner with MacBookMimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13039776441665375475noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4712020692687276596.post-57098501571405716662009-10-07T10:26:29.389-07:002009-10-07T10:26:29.389-07:00Thank you, R. Good luck with your novel!
Yours fo...Thank you, R. Good luck with your novel!<br />Yours for sideways,<br />MimMimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13039776441665375475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4712020692687276596.post-53415146141848696572009-10-06T20:35:07.627-07:002009-10-06T20:35:07.627-07:00I love coming here. I learn something every time a...I love coming here. I learn something every time and not in a didactic way but in a gentle or sideways way. Hard to explain. But I learn and I am grateful for that because I am not easily taught. You remind me of Trude Huttenbach (whose son I recently found in NY!!) my beloved violin teacher who taught me about all art.<br /><br />Rebecca<br /><br />ps. Have a novel finished titled <i>Grotesque.</i>Radish Kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06534752971317927559noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4712020692687276596.post-75703701043447238052009-10-06T11:04:00.633-07:002009-10-06T11:04:00.633-07:00Hello, nmj: I'd start with the short stories, ...Hello, nmj: I'd start with the short stories, especially, "A Good Man is Hard to Find," and "The Artificial Nigger." O'Connor's work is marvelous and strange. There's nothing like it. I'd also read her essay about the grotesque in fiction.Mimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13039776441665375475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4712020692687276596.post-45694411577825971932009-10-06T09:29:57.345-07:002009-10-06T09:29:57.345-07:00Lovely post. I have not read any Flannery O'Co...Lovely post. I have not read any Flannery O'Connor - what would you recommend?nmjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05477643084619789093noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4712020692687276596.post-80846183234858658552009-10-06T07:54:56.258-07:002009-10-06T07:54:56.258-07:00Thanks, Bluedog. She does look well in the photo....Thanks, Bluedog. She does look well in the photo. Now the doctors would have be able to more for her. Both she and her father died of lupus.Mimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13039776441665375475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4712020692687276596.post-48444734987034089092009-10-05T19:19:06.857-07:002009-10-05T19:19:06.857-07:00I was intrigued by the photo of O'connor. I a...I was intrigued by the photo of O'connor. I associate her with her sicker days and while her characters drip dialect, I have never thought of her speech, I found this link.<br /><br />http://bavatuesdays.com/flannery-oconnor-on-southern-literature-and-the-grostesque/<br /><br />The misspelling is on the URLBluedoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14090209958019905719noreply@blogger.com