I am by the beach and far from the fires.
I know that Liv Kellgren had to evacuate her house. My parents almost had to, was getting close...
There is a sales rep who wants to shop The Watermelon at the American Film Market, haoppening next week in Santa Monica. She has a good track record and is well-connected. I hve a press pass for AFM but am unsure if I can go -- at least not the whole time.
I have wrapped up a lot of books...
The Dirty Realist Duo - Charles Bukowski and Raymond Carver on the Aesthetics of the Ugly is done and off to Borgo Press for Spring 08 publication.
Zona Norte is done and ready to find a home (there are a couple of prospects).
Promises Made to Heaven...Broken almost done.
To complete the year, I will finish the guitar book for th Tiger Guides, the Star Trek crit book for Wayne State Univ. Press, and...who knows...maybe another screenplay. Always need those to sell.
Need to do some work on the Gordon Lish crit book.
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Dear Hemmingson,
How you found my blog? How did you done that? Some kind of search on the name Gordon Lish? You're the first person unknown to me who has commented on my web log. I'm amazed. I've read half down the first "page" of your posts and enjoyed it, a bit amazed at your candor in front of strangers. Yet self revelations shouldn't amount to much if as the Buddhists insist there is no self. Like an eyeball trying to look at itself, the attempt to know the self. Yet one can't help but feel that deep in the center of one's mind there is something that never changes--the self. I'm glad I'm a paradoxicalist, it enables me to embrace contradictions without feeling stupid about it. I had a very brief correspondence going with Lish a couple of years ago, started sending him one of my novels one page at a time but he never responded and I just got sick of doing it and dropped it. Sick of the silence. I had enough silence to deal with without having to shoulder more from him. (He had accepted a short story of mine for The Quarterly but it went out of business before the story appeared.) You seem to be racking up one success after another. I am swimming in failure, have been for many years, having written 7 full-length stage plays without a production (though I did have two staged readings) and an embarrassing number of unpublished novels. Having finished the screenplay Cocked & Loaded (crass title) I am clueless as to what to do next. Have sat at the desk two nights trying to start another and produced nothing so I am retreating to my Poem Seeds folder and writing verses. Anyway, good to hear from you and let's keep in touch.
All best,
Rick
Rick,
I have a google search on all new things written about Carver, Lish, etc. on the net, mainly for the Lish crit book. So your blog popped up.
You need to live in L.A. to sell/produce screenplays, unless you produce it yourself whereever, but you still need to head to LA (or NY) to find a distributor to sell to. It is a company town and outsiders are not welcome (getting an LA Po Box and cell phone canw ork in trciking them).
No successes. Just ways of getting away from boredom. Bids coming in on the Carver bio, and may ghostwrite one for ESPN Books that Matt Daon wants to make a movie (true basketball story from the 50s). Have not written a novel in a ytear and a half -- fiction market is really dead and hurting, hard to sell, but non-fiction does great.
No more theater for me. Play now and then (one act opens this Friday at the North Park space) ut after 10 years running two companies and directinga zillion plays and wirting a zillion, I got tired of being a poor starving artist. That is only cool in your 20s.
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