Think you're a big bad macho type. Then walk in Hem's loafers with blogger David Frey as your guide.
Blogger David Frey continues tracking his hero throughout Europe with a trip to one of Ernest Hemingway's favorite haunts.
"Heather and stubby pines cover the shores of Royan, where narrow limestone cliff bands drop into the Atlantic and the mouth of the Gironde opens up to greet it. To me, the seagulls above are a sign of nearby ocean, but for Ernest Hemingway, 19 years old aboard the ship the Chicago, they were a sign of land."
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Writers, a breed full of need, are a painful planetary species to emerge from both primordial bog and unspeakable blog. Take it from me, a writer who is about to make a real pain in the ass out of himself about…writing.
After decamping to the Aspen Ideas Festival, I came away thinking that no one is more terrified of the future than the writer of fiction. A panel devoted to writing in the digital age had a quartet of terrific writers—playwright John Guare, short story writer Tobias Woolf, and poets Dana Goia and Barbara Ehrenreich—but they were all but clueless when it came to the new confusion under discussion.
Continue Reading July 14th, 2010
My Kindle died a toddler. May he/she/it rest in peace.
Continue Reading June 5th, 2010
The announcement!
My wife, Judy Kohl, is now a published author. She has written and illustrated a children’s book. She will be having her first book signing event at the Barnes & Noble in Grand Junction this Saturday. She has another fun event on December 13th at Explore Booksellers in Aspen at 4:00. She will be presenting her book to children (and adults) with a fun filled story time. It will be a really entertaining event. She has created illustrated characters from her book to animate her stories. It will also be amusing because I will be doing the puppeteering and wearing a bee hat too. Yes, that is correct, a bee hat. I just can't imagine wearing this hat for anyone else. The things you do for one another.
Her book is called “Little Heavenly Poems” (Oh, what a wonderful day).
Little Heavenly Poems is an extraordinary enchanting book that captivates a "little one's" imagination and touches the heart of grown-ups. A simple collection of endearing poems that are warm-feeling that captures the essence of angels in our daily lives.
The illustrations are adorable and colorful, arousing the curiosity of young children. Each smiling angel is a sweet round faced child with the beauty of the world's diversity, bringing value and joy to each poem. This lovable and charming book celebrates a wonderful day for every child. It is a unique happy heartfelt book to be shared by children and their loved ones. Snuggles, giggles, hugs and butterfly kisses will surely abound when reading this perfect favorite "Story Book."
Although, her book is now available on www.amazon.com and www.barnesandnoble.com we hope you can join us and support our local bookstore.
Thank you Explore Booksellers! We are looking forward to the event.
Bring your family! It is going to be a memorable event!
December 3rd, 2009
Will this be on the exam, professor?
Stanford University professor of History, David Kennedy, was interviewed on Con Games on Thursday, July 30. A few years ago I read Kennedy's Pulitzer Prize winning two door-stopper (857 pages), Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945. It was quite the all-encompassing read. Professor Kennedy is a prolific and talented historian.
However, Kennedy has been waxing foolishly, erroneously and—dare I say— sophomorically with his pro-mass-immigration comments at the Aspen Institute-sponsored forums for some time now. The institute never-ever has someone from the opposite side of the argument who knows expertly whereof he speaks to challenge Kennedy’s blind claims and false assertions on mass immigration. Nor was Kennedy challenged for his (by now) cliché-ridded immigration comments on Thursday by Con games host, Michael Conniff, who otherwise doesn’t shy from challenging other of his guests and certainly his callers.
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July 31st, 2009
Okay, it’s official: the bound and tattered book is dead.
For me at least.
Continue Reading May 22nd, 2009
by Frosty Wooldridge (Author)
Published April 27, 2009; Available at 1-888 280 7715; Barnes and Noble www.barnesandnoble.com ; Borders http://www.borders.com/online/store/Home ; Amazon www.Amazon.com
"Eye-opening, incisive, brilliant !
The U.S. has the fastest growing population of any industrial nation, and one of the world's highest consumption rates. Water, topsoil, forests, fish, petroleum... the more of us, the more pressure we exert on our environment. Many discuss our personal consumption patterns, but few dare talk about the underlying crisis of population growth. Wooldridge is one of the few courageous voices warning us about the implications of our current direction, and informing us what we can do to change course."
- Richard Heinberg, Peak Everything
Continue Reading May 4th, 2009
By Frosty Wooldridge
Published April 27, 2009; Available 1-888 280 7715; Barnes and Noble; Borders; www.barnesandnoble.com ; www.Amazon.com Radio, TV, newsprint: for complimentary media copy, call Yvona Doane: 1 888 519 5121 Ext. 5299
"Eye-opening, incisive, brilliant! The US has the fastest growing population of any industrial nation, and one of the world's highest consumption rates. Water, topsoil, forests, fish, petroleum...the more of us, the more pressure we exert on our environment. Many discuss our personal consumption patterns, but few dare talk about the underlying crisis of population growth. Wooldridge is one of the few courageous voices warning us about the implications of our current direction, and informing us what we can do to change course." Richard Heinberg, Peak Everything
Continue Reading May 1st, 2009
I have just gone online searching for “multimedia novel” and “online fiction” and can’t find anything that remotely approaches what I’m trying to do, though I did see a novel on a T-shirt and a mobile phone (no kidding) and plenty of online short stories and novels. For some reason I’ve had no fear that I was missing anything for fifteen years and now I have an idea why: the concept is overwhelmingly difficult (see above) and there’s no money in it. So lots of luck to anyone who tries it.
I finally figure out “hypertext” seems to be the active phrase these days. (Note the word “text” betraying historical origins in print.) The “hypertext” entry from Wikipedia, circa today...
Continue Reading March 26th, 2009
A few more thoughts on complexity: i.e. complexity in the Supernovel can get complicated. Think about how different the whole deal is from writing a book:
n Morphing of text into hypertext.
n Inclusion of all things digital.
n Literal appropriation of source material, sometimes in toto.
n Incorporation of “found objects.”
n Importance of contributors and contributed material.
n Idea of the unfinished symphony.
n The author who becomes an “originator” and no longer has complete control.
Milan Kundera likes to say the novelist must discover what only the novel can discover—but that was then, but the so-called Supernovelist has the same job albeit with a toolkit that just went from a putty knife to a chain saw with all the attachments.
Continue Reading March 9th, 2009
So how to tell the story? How to get started with the so-called Supernovel? In a class at Breadloaf I once heard John Irving say the more you knew about the story before you started the better off you would be. I thought he was wrong about that when it came to the novel but he’s probably right about the Supernovel, which presumes a far greater level of complexity than the novel because of multiple media and multiple forms.
Still, if it’s all about story, I am ironically going to unveil THE BOOK OF O’KELLS by holding back on story—by withholding it withal. When I first started I thought I would simply post everything I had online, all at once, with a guide that got you into the story by character or media or timeline. Now I actually think there has to be a story about the story, story, story.
Continue Reading March 8th, 2009
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