Cape Fear

[giantsloth]

I should probably mention my so-far-wonderful holidays ... Barb and I saw Hilton in Winston-Salem Monday night. I went back yesterday and after doing the present thing with my mother and sister, and after reading the first third of LOOKING FOR ALASKA, I went out to Elliott's Revue to talk to my ol' friend Phil. We talked about movies, theater, music, humans, philosophy, tonal consistency, poetic inconsistency, and a few other things, and it was exactly the kind of talking I enjoy.

But instead of spieling more about holidays, I'm going to mention photography. A few of my freelance articles have been published with photos I've taken. But I'm pretty sure I just got my first credit for a photo-as-photo-and-only-photo in a dead-tree publication. So if you pick up the second edition of NORTH CAROLINA AFIELD: A Guide to Nature Conservancy Projects in North Carolina, you'll see (among many other things) my photo of the Cape Fear River. It was a pro sale, even, but I chose to donate the fee back to the Nature Conservancy, who do all kinds of good things to protect and preserve nature.

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[bondgwendabond.livejournal.com]

I think it's Green's most "mature" work to date, and not in a pukey way. It really is like an argument against his earlier work* (and also feels like a personal exploration of the idea of personas in general). Worth reading. Although--NYRoB is the best thing ever, in all their lines, so I would never advise a pause in that endeavor.

*Abundance of Katherines I still have a great deal of affection for too, because of how it's such a love letter to David Foster Wallace and, even more, HASSAN!