Monthly Archives: December 2005

zeisgeist

December 5, 2005
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Every now and then, I’ll hear someone’s name and think that it perfectly matches her vocation. Lara Zeises is one of the lucky few whose name is so utterly cool that she perhaps could make it as an indie rocker or a world-famous astrologer on the strength of her name alone. Instead, she chose to be a writer, and we’re lucky she did, because the result is her recently released third novel Anyone but You. Kirkus praises the “pitch-perfect narration.” This is a book that knows its audience, a teen angst chick spin that’s rowdy enough for grown-ups who...

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will the “anonymous” mr. young please stand up

December 3, 2005
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DEC. 5 postscript: Media Bistro today notes my musing that Robert Clark Young’s stink piece about Sewanee may have to do with his having had a bad experience there. Note this comment left by a reader of From Here to Obscurity on Dec. 2. I certainly believe there is room for rational, healthy debate on what Vice might have done differently when it comes to “Tuscaloosa Knights.” However, Young’s article is an extremely questionable piece of “journalism,” relying in part upon an incorrect quotation from of a piece of Vice’s story from his dissertation, the story that later appeared...

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good piece on from here to obscurity

December 2, 2005
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Hayden on From Here to Obscurity doesn’t mince words when it comes to Robert Clark Young’s bizarro display of bad vibes and irresponsible reporting in the New York Press a couple of days ago. One reader commented about a terrible licking Young took in Barry Hannah’s Sewanee workshop several years ago, which would explain his tirade against the conference.

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one of the guys

December 1, 2005
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In his oddly ascerbic rant against Brad Vice in the New York Press, Robert Clark Young isn’t content to simply bash Vice, author of The Bear Bryant Funeral Train (read the Funeral Train story here). Young makes it a point to vehemently criticize all things Southern, from the prestigious Sewanee Writers’ Conference to every Southern writer who blurbed Vice’s book or helped Vice in any way at all through the years, including his thesis advisor. Among his targets are Richard Bausch, author of nine critically acclaimed novels as well as award-winning story collections; andBarry Hannah, author of eight novels,...

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