Letters to the Editor
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Colicchio
Now that I know Tom Colicchio is a fan of Iron & Wine, I'm more inclined to trust his judgment on "Top Chef."
Thanks for this piece, Salon. Always interesting.
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Norman Mailer is really Dead - writers strike - Movies v. Net
1,000 years from now, aliens will find our bodies - all lying prostrate under a vast superscreen - with organic headphones bio-planted inside us. They will naturally ask a question -"What did this race DO?!" - to get like that.
And the answer will be this: Imagining Things - instead of building superior weapons to prevent Alien Invasions. We are now so literate and music-filled that the species can relax into perpetual rerun... no more war, thanx - just pop another pill of ART into my sensory system.
Other than Gutenberg and the Chinese, who started us down this hoary road of fascination? It was every single publisher who had the nerve to push a book, promote a song, produce a play or create an online mag to balance our unsteady hold of Real Things, that can devastate us.
Let us not overstate the case: good writing and music are the Cure for a world gone bigIgnorant and Dumb, but mindsharing via mass media (books, TV, radio, theNet) leads us to the real revolution in civilization.
"What books, music do you like?" may as well be: So - how is the human race doing this year, exactly? Of course, I'm just a biased writer of sorts...
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Thanks!
Wonderful to get recommendations of books I hadn't heard of, instead of the usual list of titles the other publications are putting out.
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Huh...?
I just read: "...They were showing it on a plane I was on and everyone on the plane, young and old, were watching."
Goodness....has all of Salon become a gorgeously-spontaneous and unedited "blog"?
Concernedly yours,
David Terry
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I guess women don't have very many opinions!
So many men.....so few women.
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Creeping Jesus....
I just read"...So many men.....so few women..."
Let's see...
The last winner for the Pulitzer Prize in fiction was Geraldine Brooks (hint: she's not a boy)...the last recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature was Doris Lessing....moreover?...a woman is running (rather convincingly, to say the least) for president...another woman serves as Secretary of State....and yet another is President of Harvard....and I'll let you do the googling as to how many women figure prominently (and, obviously, deservedly) among the regularly featured book-reviewers of major publications, NPR.....do I need to go on?....
If nothing else, the article which I gather you're criticizing was written by two women.
I expect that you'll still feel mightily put-upon...
sincerely,
David Terry
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Hyphens good
@dterrydraw: This from a guy who inserts a hyphen between an adverb and a noun. Smooth.
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"Hyphens good"...please assist...
Hey there....
So I put a hyphen between a adverb and a noun? Since when is that so wrong or a crime? You show me the rule and show me what book you got it out of.
I just looked at what I wrote and its got only two hyphened phrases, they are "book-reviewer" and "put-upon".
Which of those are wrong? I put the hyphen into both of them to show how you say them and what people mean when they say them.
They both seem right to me. On top of it all, "put-upon" doesn't have any noun at all in it, although it's pretty much a noun all to itself since it is what some people are and feel. "Put" is a verb, so you are wrong again.
Anyway, I don't understand your criticisms, so I didn't learn anything new.
the main thing is that I liked most of the books and movies list and there werea lot of new books that I did not know about, which is fun.
sincerely,
David Terry
dterrydraw@aol.com
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Hyphen Buster
Yo, DT man. The phrase "Gorgeously spontaneous" is, or was, complete unto itself and didn´t need any punctuation, you see. It´s only because you were complaining about the lack of editing in the section. Get it?
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Hyphen-busting, cont....
Hey there...Actually, the hyphen was inserted quite intentionally in "gorgeously-spontaneous and unedited".
Otherwise, I would have implied that writing could be "gorgeously unedited."
Think: "brilliantly conceived and executed", "brutally attacked and strangled", "artfully prepared and presented", "woefully unprepared and disorganized", etc....
In any case, I didn't say that I never needed an editor; I wondered why Salon didn't seem to have one (there's all sorts of good ones, going for cheap these days). I'm not a prominent and ambitious online publication; Salon is.
thanks,
David Terry
dterrydraw@aol.com