I thought it might be interesting if we could share some recommendations here, and maybe talk about some different reading/writing issues...
so, right now I'm actually reading Michael Winter's The Big Why. For anybody who doesn't know he's a regular visitor to the Madrid program, and friend of Joseph and Amanda Boyden... since I'm not a fiction student I hadn't read it before, but I bought it at AWP last March and have just settled into it, only to be blown away by it... I definitely recommend it, and would love to hear thoughts on it from some of the people who've read it already...and speaking of the Boyden's, anyone who hasn't read Joseph's Three day Road should do so immediately...
and on the poetry front, check out Susan Schultz's Tinfish Press
and one other, Hank Lazer, poetry instructor for Madrid's '03 program has just been nominated for a Pultizer for his latest book, The New Spirit
And always, Bill's While Sleeping and others are great...
So those are some program plugs, but also genuine recommendations, since I really like the work, and get no kickbacks ;).... But I'm always looking for some good recommendations....
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Nope, have neither read it nor heard of it - but if you like it when you get into it, let me know, and I'll pick it up... I'm also starting For Whom the Bell Tolls, which I've never read but have been inspired to read after this summer...
Hemingway is an interesting discussion all by himself... the man was in many ways brilliant, and in many ways a bastard. This past summer was interesting, reading about him and discussing him in Spain. People have such varied opinions. I'm not sure what mine is yet, because I haven't read all his major stuff yet. I was in the IB program in high school, so I have some serious gaps in my major american writers reading that I've been seeking to remedy. It was a great education, just a little more international. I read Yukio Mishima's The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea and not The Grapes of Wrath. Things like that. I'm looking forward to reading it though, because I think where ever you fall on the Hemingway polemic, there's some really good writing there... I'm glad to know you like it though - I'm always a little trepidatious when I start a book thats supposed to be so great, because I don't alway agree with the brilliant stamp the cannon places on texts.
and ya know, my ex named my dog. Roscoe. Yes. Its Dukes of Hazard derived, but this was years before they thought of remaking it. I got to keep the dog though... he's been a Godsend to me. Keep the dog and the kids. Get rid of the ex.
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