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Rants, Rates, Slags, Slates. Manic-depressive posts from Red Wright-Hand. Because there are thousands of worthless blogs out there and who am I not to add to their number?
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Saturday, April 30, 2005
US: The Viet Nam War THEM: The American War US: The Fall of Saigon THEM: The Reunification of Viet Nam US: 58,193 military personnel killed THEM: 1,320,000 military personnel killed (approx. combined NVA [North], ARVN [South] and NLF [Viet Cong] forces) US: 1,500 MIAs (approx.) THEM: 300,000 MIAs (approx total Vietnamese forces) THEM: 300,000 - 2,000,000 estimated Vietnamese civilian population deaths, 1960-1975 Tuesday, April 19, 2005
THE BIG ANNOUNCEMENT: Your humble correspondent has a story appearing in the new issue of AGNI. The story is called Revolver. AGNI is throwing a party this Thursday, like so: "Come celebrate the publication of AGNI 61. Readings by Lan Samantha Chang (chosen to become the next director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop), essayist Ben Miller (Best American Essays 2004), poet Gail Mazur (a finalist for the National Book Award), and novelist Suzanne Berne (winner of Great Britain’s Orange Prize). Plus wine, beer, food, and an exciting spring issue. Don't miss this crimson opportunity to discover my real name. Advance orders for Issue #61 may be placed now. Friday, April 15, 2005
Wednesday, April 13, 2005
THE ADVENTURES OF BLOGGY MARCH: [Ian McEwan]’s 1,200-word eulogy [of Saul Bellow] was graceful, cogent and astonishingly fully formed, bearing no whiff of the lamp, no sign of haste or clotted emotion: It read, if the unforgivable may be suggested, as though (like major New York Times obituaries) it had been written months or years in advance, and carefully whittled and polished till not a trace of the sweat of composition remained. James Kaplan excerpted from The New York Observer. So, I wasn't the only one who noticed. Friday, April 08, 2005
THE BELLOW FROM THE BELLY BELOW: Canadian-born American author Saul Bellow died this past Tuesday, three days after Pope John Paul II, in a display of ill-timing not seen since Groucho Marx packed it in three days after Elvis Presley in the summer of 1977. But Bellow's passing does not seem to have been entirely overshadowed by the pontiff's, although, exactly as with the 84-year-old Pope, one has to consider just how spontaneous are all the eulogies for an 89-year-old Nobel Prize winner. Ian McEwan's, for The New York Times, is especially nice; he makes a point of noting how he chose a passage from Herzog for the epigraph of his most recent novel, and do you really think he dashed off his whole piece for the May 7 Times after Bellow's death was announced in the afternoon of May 5th? This is by no means an aspersion on McEwan (whose Atonement I found extraordinarily fine), nor on all those who compose obituaries in advance of a noted person's actual death. I just naturally find the process morbidly fascinating. Is there a name for the phenomenon (other than "journalism," I mean)? The Viet Nam/Cambodia tour description will resume. If you can'ts stands the wait, may I suggest you submit something of your own for RRB-publication? |
