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WHY WE LOVE AMERICA: A land of beauty — with a thirst for liberty | Ron Hansen
I love that those who founded our country envisioned a novel government based not the rule of a hereditary monarch, but on the rule of law. And I love that our country’s laws are created by the elected representatives of its citizens. I love that our nation’s capitol city was laid out with the Congress as its center, on a hill, from which all main boulevards radiate.
John Irving, The Art of Fiction No. 93
Interviewed by Ron Hansen John Irving was interviewed in the cramped back room of his otherwise large and luxurious apartment in Manhattan. A jump rope hangs on the door, a heavy set of weights “is always in the way” on the floor, and by one window is a stationary bike that Irving uses on days he doesn’t go to his private athletic club or jog in Central Park.
Il mondo che verrà
LA TRAMA DI IL MONDO CHE VERRÀ The World to Come, film diretto da Mona Fastvold, è ambientato verso la metà del XIX secolo nella costa orientale americana e racconta la storia di due coppie di vicini, che si ritrovano ad affrontare disagi e isolamento. Vivono circondati da un paesaggio tanto bello quanto difficile, che mette a dura prova i loro corpi e le loro menti. Serie tv, Show e Film su NOW!
10 Dark Books Like Blood Meridian
Many readers will tell you that there’s no other writer quite like Cormac McCarthy, and few of his books are as infamous as Blood Meridian. Harold Bloom called it “not only the ultimate Western [but] the ultimate dark dramatization of violence,” while The New York Times wrote that the novel “comes at the reader like a slap in the face.” Filled with brutal violence and surreal lyricism, Blood Meridian is undeniably a tough act to follow.
Twin A: A Memoir
FINALIST, 2024 NEXT GENERATION INDIE BOOK AWARD FOR MEMOIR Shortly after learning they would become the parents of twins, the physician-writer Amit Majmudar and his wife received a devastating in utero diagnosis: one of the twins had a potentially fatal congenital heart defect. Written in the form of an extended letter, Twin A recounts the epic story of the open-heart surgeries, complications, and prolonged recoveries that Majmudar’s son survived in infancy and early childhood.
Cry of the Heart
Cry of the Heart is the late Monsignor Lorenzo Albacete’s incisive and heartfelt look at what the experience of suffering reveals to each of us. He draws upon insights from literary figures such as Flannery O’Connor, Walker Percy, and Elie Wiesel; adds the wisdom of Saints John Paul II and Padre Pio; and engages our own everyday human experience.
O grande segredo da “Empresa” não chega para a salvar Em competição em Veneza83, o filme de Casey Affleck confia o seu enredo a uma reviravolta que chega tarde demais
Para falar bem de Empresa, seria preciso estragar o final. Algo que não faremos neste artigo, mas que torna genuinamente difícil ter qualquer discussão, mesmo remotamente estimulante, sobre o filme. Dirigido por Casey Affleck, que também co-escreveu o roteiro ao lado de Ron Hansen, o filme ganha vida verdadeiramente no exato momento em que o seu mistério sustentador é revelado.
Il grande segreto di "Company" non basta per salvarlo In concorso a Venezia83, il film di Casey Affleck affida la trama a a un colpo di scena che arriva troppo tardi
Per parlare bene di Company si dovrebbe fare spoiler del finale. Cosa che in questo articolo non faremo, ma che rende davvero difficile fare qualsiasi discorso anche minimamente stimolante attorno all’opera. Diretta da Casey Affleck, anche alla co-sceneggiatura insieme a Ron Hansen, la pellicola entra infatti nel vivo esattamente quando il mistero che la sorregge viene svelato.
The Meaning of Birth
What are people saying about Slant? “As a person of faith and a third-generation Chicano, I find myself living in the hyphens of this existence, wholly both, but constantly living with the tension. My novel found a supportive home with Slant as they celebrate the in-between, work that pushes boundaries between the world we can see and the world we cannot.” Rubén Degollado
Making Things Up
IN ONE OF HIS MONOLOGUES about the fictional Minnesota town of Lake Wobegon on the Prairie Home Companion radio show, Garrison Keillor relates: It’s a good time, winter, for all of us. It’s a time when all the things that we’ve been postponing for months can now be put off for a good while longer.
'Casey Affleck, Katherine Waterston paint tense emotions in 'The World To Come'
The opening scene of this sad, slow, quiet story of longing and repressed emotions takes place in 1856. The big old farmhouse that’s set on gray, snowy woods, is in upstate New York. It’s the home of Dyer and Abigail (Casey Affleck and Katherine Waterston), a couple who though once happy, have been relegated to the dreary routine of keeping their farm running and a steady silence between them.
‘The World to Come’: Same Old Same-Sex Tragedy
In a 2012 interview with One Story, Jim Shepard said that that he knew almost immediately” that his short story “The World To Come” would be a love story—“the question at that point became how repressed a love story it would be,” he explained.
Voice of the People: The time to stand up for truth is now
Refuse to believe the lies. Today more than ever, it takes courage and also constant reaffirmation of what is true and what is false "if" we are to beat back or at least hold our own in a secular, truth-denying society.
Horse Porn, Flank Steak, and a List of My Favorite (Anti-)Westerns by Jess Walter
Photo credit: Rajah Bose Editor's note: Catch Jess Walter's event at the Portland Book Festival on Thursday, November 5, at 6 p.m. Buy the preorder and event ticket here. I. A novelist should never say never. As soon as you make a hard-and-fast rule about writing (for instance, never use the second person) you quickly find yourself longing to break that rule. I remember once chiding a college class over their love of zombie stories, only to get so worked up, I started writing one that very night.
Writers on Writers
Writers on Writers A Special Fiction Issue of VQR Volume , Number 0 A special supplement to our Fall 2006 issue, featuring a cover design by Chris Ware and short stories by: • Steve Almond on James Frey • Brock Clarke on Mario Puzo • Elizabeth Gaffney on Edgar Allan Poe • Jonathan Lethem on Philip K. Dick • Ron Hansen on Gerard Manley Hopkins • John McNally on Nelson Algren • Joyce Carol Oates on Emily Dickinson • James P.
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Todd Davis is the author of six books of poetry, including Winterkill, In the Kingdom of the Ditch, and the forthcoming Native Species, all from Michigan State University Press. He is professor of English and environmental studies at Pennsylvania State University’s Altoona College. Jerzy Ficowski (1924–2006) was a poet, songwriter, and scholar who studied the Polish Roma population and the work of writer and artist Bruno Schulz.
The Killer by Ron Hansen
Henry “Kid” Antrim got hired again as a hay reaper, this time for an army contractor named Sorghum Smith whose ranch was near Camp Thomas. The Kid’s horse and tack and guns and such had been confiscated in his arrest for horse stealing. Easy enough for him to steal another horse, but he felt he needed weaponry and finally had to request an advance on his wages from Sorghum Smith. The rancher offered him ten dollars but the Kid said he needed forty.
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Alan Boye is a Nebraska native with an affinity for back roads and offbeat historic moments. He is a professor of English at Lyndon State College in Vermont and the author of Tales from the Journey of the Dead: Ten Thousand Years on an American Desert (Nebraska 2006) and Holding Stone Hands: On the Trail of the Cheyenne Exodus, available in a Bison Books edition. Ron Hansen, a Nebraska native, is the author of Isn't It Romantic? and Hitler's Niece.
Get the Word of the Day - palsy-walsy | Dictionary.com
For musical history I give you this duo-portrait of Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby who became very palsy-walsy recently in Los Angeles. Well, don't expect me to be palsy-walsy. I'll shoot the breeze, okay. But I'm not about to be your pal just because you're Bijou's cousin from Hollywood and radio land. Ron Hansen, "Playland," She Loves Me Not: New and Selected Stories , 2012
John Irving, The Art of Fiction No. 93
John Irving, ca. 2010. Photograph by Jost Hindersmann John Irving was interviewed in the cramped back room of his otherwise large and luxurious apartment in Manhattan. A jump rope hangs on the door, a heavy set of weights “is always in the way” on the floor, and by one window is a stationary bike that Irving uses on days he doesn’t go to his private athletic club or jog in Central Park.
Book review of Ron Hansen's The Kid
In the literary world, the sympathetic killer walks on hallowed ground. From Dostoevsky’s Raskolnikov to Capote’s Perry Smith to O’Connor’s Misfit, the murderer—that ultimate transgressor—makes for rich oats. But studying a killer by fictionalizing his exploits can be like drawing close to a shadow in order to describe it: instead of clarifying the subject, nearness only makes him less graspable.
'The Kid': Sensitive, sympathetic portrait of a Western outlaw
Quick: Name three gunfighters of the Wild West. Whom did you name third? Wild Bill Hickok? Doc Holliday? Regardless of your third choice, the first two names to come to you were likely Jesse James and Billy the Kid. And why wouldn't they be? Who else from that era still fascinates us more than these two brutal figures? (As evidence, take the price paid for the only authenticated photograph of Billy the Kid: $2.3 million, in 2011).
Pima County Public Library presents Southwest Books of the Year 2016
The long wait for the year’s best Southwest reading is over.“Southwest Books of the Year,” Pima County Public Library’s (PCPL) annual review of regional literature, will arrive in libraries this week.This free, library-produced publication connects readers with books that are new, noteworthy, and sure to keep you turning pages.
RON HANSEN - THE KID: A Novel - KSCJ 1360
A new novel from Ron Hansen, the award-winning author of The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, about an iconic American criminal of the old West: legendary outlaw, Billy the Kid.
From Jesse James to Billy the Kid
From Jesse James to Billy the Kid Ron Hansen has once again saddled up for a journey down the desperado trail, and readers will be delighted to go along on the ride. This is familiar country for the Bay Area novelist, whose previous Western historical novels, “Desperadoes” and “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford,” received considerable critical acclaim.
Billy the Kid: The Novel
Ron Hansen has a thing for outlaws. He has written about the Dalton and James gangs. One of the best stories in his collection “Nebraska” (1988) is “The Killers,” an affecting portrait of a rotation of assassins. In his newest novel, “The Kid,” Hansen returns to the ungovernable territories of the American West to resurrect, and perhaps redefine, one of the 19th century’s most wanted men, the many-monikered youth known to most of us as Billy the Kid.
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What few people know is that Gussie had inked a Lone Star in one corner of every single simoleon. Gussie's bills turn up in the strangest places -- like Effie Sue Etheridge's garden and the effects of two teen-age runaways ... Kit Reed, "In Short: Fiction; The Laying Out of Gussie Hoot," , January 20, 1991
THE KID by Ron Hansen
A portrait of the world-famous, short-lived outlaw and the milieu that created his myth. For veteran novelist Hansen (She Loves Me Not: New and Selected Stories, 2012, etc.), Billy the Kid was one part angry gunslinger, one part victim of circumstance: the late-19th-century New Mexico territory was so ill-governed, he argues, that the Kid was no more lawless in many ways than the ostensible lawmen.
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Robert Ford, who's idolized Jesse James since childhood, tries hard to join the reforming gang of the Missouri outlaw, but gradually becomes resentful of the bandit leader.Robert Ford, who's idolized Jesse James since childhood, tries hard to join the reforming gang of the Missouri outlaw, but gradually becomes resentful of the bandit leader.Robert Ford, who's idolized Jesse James since childhood, tries hard to join the reforming gang of the Missouri outlaw, but gradually becomes resentful of...
The Art of Fiction No. 93
Interviewed by Ron Hansen John Irving was interviewed in the cramped back room of his otherwise large and luxurious apartment in Manhattan. A jump rope hangs on the door, a heavy set of weights “is always in the way” on the floor, and by one window is a stationary bike that Irving uses on days he doesn’t go to his private athletic club or jog in Central Park.
Hopkins in Wales
Wednesday, December 8th, 1875. A soft confetti of snowflakes was fluttering down upon Wales. The higher windowpanes were gardens of frost. His right hand still twined a rosary, its anesthetic routine of prayers his midnight defense against sleeplessness. Lying in bed in his nightshirt and black woolen stockings, Hopkins recited his Morning Offering, then stood to use the chamber pot.
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