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It is awesome that you now wield enough e-power to summon professional authors to lowly Rockford

Its not like its Dan Brown or anything... =D>
I just asked if he had any interest. Wifes School did the rest. But it will be nice to meet him.
IIRC he went to school at Carthage and has family and friends in the area and can combine the trip for tax evasion. Either way it will be good for the school to have somebody who doesnt self publish.

edit: no, he got his MFA at San Francisco State U. My wife went to Carthage.

http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0geusrnpKpLK ... cahill.php

tough old man wrote: IIRC he went to school at Carthage and has family and friends in the area and can combine the trip for tax evasion. Either way it will be good for the school to have somebody who doesnt self publish.

Carthage recruited one of my brothers for basketball (he went to NIU though). I never knew where it was until now.

The Unflushable DEATHTURD wrote:

Norman U. Senchbau wrote:Thanks. Just wondering if there was a sensible place to start. Whether they are "good" isn't too important, just have some thoughts on Southern Lit. and trying to survey it.

Flannery O'Conner is fantastic. McCarthy is also Catholic?

Anything outside of Twain (and I have read nearly everything word published of his), I probably haven't looked at.

I heard he was, but don't know if he still is.

IMO a good place to start on Southern Lit is with I'll Take My Stand by the Vanderbilt Agrarians. Nice readable collection of essays by some serious writers and poets. Gives some nice perspective about the situation with dealing with the Civil War, Reconstruction, slavery, and segretation-- worth reading even though you won't agree with their perspective.

Faulkner's very good, but overall Robert Penn Warren is more indispensable IMO. Tate's Ode to the Confederate Dead is a good short read-- google it.

I am especially interest in themes on (post) Reconstruction and sentimentality.

Thanks for the suggestion.

tough old man wrote:

LOL who the fuck is his agent? Booking him into Rockford? WTF

Me. Or it was my suggestion anyway. They have always had poets and "meaningful" writers that turn out crap I wouldnt read and my wife finally asked for suggestions.

edit:Not that he isnt a serious writer, I meant.. well the last authors book was about family incest and emotional struggles.

Well, I could concentrate on my serial killer book. It's a serious bummer.

BTW, although I am a famous author and a spiritually advanced individual, I am not at all arrogant and am always courteous to others despite their inferiority.

I've met a couple dozen published authors. Self-help writers are probably the biggest egomaniacs. (This includes anyone who wrote an exercise book.)

People I've met who have published fiction seem intelligent but guarded, as if they'd rather be in a room alone than talking with others. Only met one journalist, but he was extremely practical, cynical, and weary of the world. Familiarity breeds contempt, I guess.

Shafpocalypse Now wrote:I met Loren D. Estleman down by Detroit once, he seemed ok, but a bit arrogant.

I agree, if you meet someone and they are a cock, you don't want anything to do with them anymore, like Anselmo from Pantera. After I met him I couldn't listen to Pantera for a good 2 years without thinking about how I wanted to smash his face in.

Good, his band is one of the biggest bunch of fakes ever.

Pantera started as a GLAM BAND, with Rex Rocker and Diamond Daryyl (the Dime Bag shit came later) and Anselmo looking like a cross between Brett Michaels and Vince Neal, doing the pursed lip poser thing.

Then they see how much $$$$$$$$$$$$ Metalica was making and knew there was actually money in Thrash Metal. So the sound got heavy and Phil started doing his Harley Flannagin act (He even told Flannagan he aped his act).

Fuck 'em, they basically stole Powermad's sound, heaped on the white trash Hell Yeah and made $$$$ untill D got a bullet.

Cormac McCarthy needs to learn to use the grammar checker on his copy of Microsoft Word '98.

I can only stand to listen to his books on CD. They are beautiful and lyrical when interpreted by an actor into actual human language. They are unreadable and frustrating in paperback.

Of course, last time I tried to read one I was 18. Maybe my tolerance for run-on sentences has increased since then.

seeahill wrote:BTW, although I am a famous author and a spiritually advanced individual, I am not at all arrogant and am always courteous to others despite their inferiority.

As a fellow occasional professor, I hope that when you find that one individual with that spark of greatness that is destined to equal and exceed your great accomplishments, that you squash his ego like a bug and put him back in his place beneath you where he belongs.

Norman U. Senchbau wrote:

The Unflushable DEATHTURD wrote:

Norman U. Senchbau wrote:Thanks. Just wondering if there was a sensible place to start. Whether they are "good" isn't too important, just have some thoughts on Southern Lit. and trying to survey it.

Flannery O'Conner is fantastic. McCarthy is also Catholic?

Anything outside of Twain (and I have read nearly everything word published of his), I probably haven't looked at.

I heard he was, but don't know if he still is.

IMO a good place to start on Southern Lit is with I'll Take My Stand by the Vanderbilt Agrarians. Nice readable collection of essays by some serious writers and poets. Gives some nice perspective about the situation with dealing with the Civil War, Reconstruction, slavery, and segretation-- worth reading even though you won't agree with their perspective.

Faulkner's very good, but overall Robert Penn Warren is more indispensable IMO. Tate's Ode to the Confederate Dead is a good short read-- google it.

I am especially interest in themes on (post) Reconstruction and sentimentality.

Thanks for the suggestion.

Another classic (post) Reconstruction book:
Up From Slavery-- Booker T Washington