venerdì 5 agosto 2011
giovedì 3 marzo 2011
martedì 15 febbraio 2011
il grande gatsby
domenica 13 febbraio 2011
venerdì 11 febbraio 2011
a proposito di amleto
da un libro di joyce carol oates
giovedì 10 febbraio 2011
mercoledì 9 febbraio 2011
famous literary fights
martedì 8 febbraio 2011
the vintage book of american women writers
domenica 6 febbraio 2011
le recensioni disegnate #1
sabato 5 febbraio 2011
i libri di janis parte seconda
i libri di janis
post drunk #3 - al mattino
INTERVIEWER
Could you talk a little more about the drinking? So many writers, even if they're not alcoholics, drink so much.
CARVER
Probably not a whole lot more than any other group of professionals. You'd be surprised. Of course there's a mythology that goes along with the drinking, but I was never into that. I was into the drinking itself. I suppose I began to drink heavily after I'd realized that the things I'd wanted most in life for myself and my writing, and my wife and children, were simply not going to happen. It's strange. You never start out in life with the intention of becoming a bankrupt or an alcoholic or a cheat and a thief. Or a liar.
INTERVIEWER
And you were all those things?
CARVER
I was. I'm not any longer. Oh, I lie a little from time to time, like everyone else.
INTERVIEWER
How long since you quit drinking?
CARVER
June second, 1977. If you want the truth, I'm prouder of that, that I've quit drinking, than I am of anything in my life. I'm a recovered alcoholic. I'll always be an alcoholic, but I'm no longer a practicing alcoholic.
INTERVIEWER
How bad did the drinking get?
CARVER
It's very painful to think about some of the things that happened back then. I made a wasteland out of everything I touched. But I might add that towards the end of the drinking there wasn't much left anyway. But specific things? Let's just say, on occasion, the police were involved and emergency rooms and courtrooms.
Sempre dalla stessa intervista, 1983.
post drunk #2
INTERVIEWER
Did you ever feel that alcohol was in any way an inspiration? I'm thinking of your poem “Vodka,” published in Esquire.
CARVER
My God, no! I hope I've made that clear. Cheever remarked that he could always recognize “an alcoholic line” in a writer's work. I'm not exactly sure what he meant by this but I think I know.
Questa è presa da un'intervista del 1983 sulla Paris Review.
post drunk #1
“…Fitzgerald moved to 1307 Park Avenue in Bolton Hill, not far from the monument to his famous ancestor, Francis Scott Key.
One night on his way home, according to historian Frank Shivers, a drunk Fitzgerald jumped out of the car in which he was riding as it approached the Key monument and hid in some nearby bushes. When the driver (a young Garry Moore, who later became a radio and television star) asked what he was doing, Fitzgerald said, “Shhh! I don’t want [Uncle] Frank [Francis Scott Key] to see me this way!”"
Qui c'è il resto della storia, e anche una bella guida della Baltimora dei Fitzgerald.