tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8944798.post5602474776941592279..comments2024-01-18T05:18:48.819-05:00Comments on Wombat's World <small>(a blog for writer K. A. Laity)</small>: Between Work and WitK. A. Laityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05983280397279864583noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8944798.post-72906638918354396592010-04-15T13:26:21.575-04:002010-04-15T13:26:21.575-04:00Unfortunately, I do and it's kind of painful t...Unfortunately, I do and it's kind of painful to listen to bad poetry. Unlike bad drama, which I can find nevertheless entertaining, bad poetry just reminds me I ought to be writing instead.C. Margery Kempehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15910282257993793334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8944798.post-73133195355416856542010-04-14T21:49:07.434-04:002010-04-14T21:49:07.434-04:00I highly recommend writing poeetry and reading it ...I highly recommend writing poeetry and reading it at open mics as a welcome diversion from more carefully considered prose. When it comes to poetry, most people don't know how to differentiate between bad and good - I certainly don't!Julie Lomoehtto://julielomoe.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8944798.post-16289164317429157482010-04-12T14:43:29.075-04:002010-04-12T14:43:29.075-04:00I got HIGHSMITH on your rec and though I've on...I got HIGHSMITH on your rec and though I've only had time to read the first chapter, it's a whizzer. I'll probably rip through it when I'm done with the Amis.C. Margery Kempehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15910282257993793334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8944798.post-84680560997723146032010-04-12T14:22:43.363-04:002010-04-12T14:22:43.363-04:00Yes, but I was difference-splitting between "...Yes, but I was difference-splitting between "Owl-Stretching Time" (and "Whither Candada?") and THE STUFFED OWL and all the assemblies of bad verse since. There's method in my mumble.<br /><br />Well, as I recommend to all, HIGHSMITH: A ROMANCE OF THE FIFTIES (and Meaker's YA memoir ME ME ME ME ME: NOT A NOVEL, which touches on her friendship with Richard Matheson and work on staff at Gold Medal); I've certainly been following Sandra Tsing-Loh's serial memoirs, and then the last arguably unusual one before that was the reconsitituted Judith Merril memoir.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8944798.post-70251872250407733552010-04-12T12:31:03.186-04:002010-04-12T12:31:03.186-04:00[G]nashing his teeth?[G]nashing his teeth?C. Margery Kempehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15910282257993793334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8944798.post-65712839169447061992010-04-12T12:18:34.115-04:002010-04-12T12:18:34.115-04:00Donne's Flea?
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and wher...Donne's Flea?<br /><br />Adam<br />Had 'em?<br /><br />-r<br /><br />and where's Ogden?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8944798.post-56307227306315697312010-04-12T11:37:40.266-04:002010-04-12T11:37:40.266-04:00Thanks for sharing that, Patti. I was really enjoy...Thanks for sharing that, Patti. I was really enjoying the Highsmith, although its loopy format was a bit repetitive at times, I like the surreal way she linked together things, so I ended up skipping around once it was clear that I couldn't renew it.<br /><br />Other writer bios people have enjoyed? Or docos! I saw a good Larkin one last summer and <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/features/waughs.shtml" rel="nofollow"><i>Fathers and Sons</i></a> on the Waughs. PBS showed a fairly enjoyable one on LM Alcott recently which I made sure to record. Another way to avoid writing -- must be about time to teach my Writers in Motion class.C. Margery Kempehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15910282257993793334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8944798.post-6887950654980484872010-04-12T11:29:13.384-04:002010-04-12T11:29:13.384-04:00In the process of rotating the bios of Cheever, Ca...In the process of rotating the bios of Cheever, Carver and Highsmith. At 700 pages +-all too long. But also all good.pattinase (abbott)https://www.blogger.com/profile/02916037185235335846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8944798.post-33871432202099958192010-04-12T11:27:37.004-04:002010-04-12T11:27:37.004-04:00Owl Stretching!
Yeah, I'm in the latter part ...Owl <i>Stretching</i>!<br /><br />Yeah, I'm in the latter part of <i>Lucky Him</i> and it's a bit grim, but he's still lucky that his first wife let him live with her and her husband and took care of him. We should all be so lucky.C. Margery Kempehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15910282257993793334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8944798.post-16665412119235228302010-04-12T10:11:52.291-04:002010-04-12T10:11:52.291-04:00I assumed too much and too rashly...that would be ...I assumed too much and too rashly...that would be an inevitable biography title, at least for the first half of Amis's life, I gather...Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8944798.post-26068220903566030652010-04-12T10:08:56.427-04:002010-04-12T10:08:56.427-04:00Ah, but without glutinous poetry, whither Owl-Stuf...Ah, but without glutinous poetry, whither Owl-Stuffing Time?<br /><br />I think your typo might've been Larkin's...LUCKY HIM, indeed.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.com