Ryszard Kapuscinski on Herodotus as the first journalist, in Travels with Herodotus. His task is complex: on the one hand, he knows that the most precious and almost the only source of knowledge is the memory of those he meets; on the other hand, he is aware that this memory is a fragile thing, volatile and evanescent–that memory has a vanishing point. That is why he is in a hurry–people forget, or else move away somewhere and one cannot find them again, and eventually they die.
Monthly Archives: July 2007
This Morning on KALW
I talked to ARTERY host Stephen Short about one of my favorite local acts, the Barbary Coasters. The spot airs today on Bay Area NPR affiliate KALW. Listen here.
not so fast
Al Gore’s son, 24-year-old Al Gore III, inadvertently plugged the Prius by driving it 100 mph on the San Diego Freeway in the wee hours of this morning. Did anyone know this spiffy little bit of green machinery could go so fast? Unfortunately for papa, Gore was stopped by the cops, who found pot and a number of prescription drugs in the car. This just days after Jenna Bush was seen sweetly hugging children (and seeming perfectly natural and content in the act–she is, after all, an elementary school teacher) in Africa. Gore’s son misbehavin’ while one of the...
Adaptation
The Year of Fog was featured yesterday in Variety. Newmarket Films has acquired the film rights to Michelle Richmond’s novel “The Year of Fog” and tapped Semi Chellas to adapt. Newmarket will produce and fully finance the bigscreen project. P. Jennifer Dana and Andrew Lauren of Andrew Lauren Productions and Newmarket’s Aaron Ryder will serve as producers, with Newmarket principals Chris J. Ball and William Tyrer exec producing…Chellas penned and produced Canadian TV series “The Eleventh Hour” and wrote “The Life Before This,” a dramatic thriller starring Catherine O’Hara, Stephen Rea and Sarah Polley…Andrew Lauren Prods. is a New...
Hum
The summer issue of The Missouri Review is now out, featuring an interview with Sam Shepard, as well as fiction by Benjamin Percy, Kate Chase, Molly McNett, and yours truly (my story is entitled “Hum.”)
The international bestseller about one woman’s search for a missing child…
"Mesmerizing." ~Library Journal, starred review.
Stop dreaming, start writing!
