It’s been a busy three days. Political conventions, distractions of one sort or another, computer issues, etc. But you don’t want to hear about any of that. You came to read about the future of the epic. So let’s get on with it, shall we?
The Epic Is Not Dead (Thanks Walt Whitman!)
Epics are not dead. [...]
Russian novelist, Alexander Solzhenitsyn is dead. Very significant. I don’t know that we have a modern equivalent unless it would be Gore Vidal. But Solzhenitsyn leaving this world is a real deadening event for soviet culture – and for the world.
Jim Murdoch writes about poets and art.
I still have not seen The Dark Knight.
Reginald Shepherd [...]
I’d like to invite you to join a new online community called LitMixx.
LitMixx is a social bookmarking community and a part of the Mixx brand. I started LitMixx to allow poets, fiction writers, and other literature lovers the ability to save their favorite literary reading online in one location and share it with their friends. [...]
Found in the margins – what musicians read.
Is Billy bowing out?
Relief from the pain of war.
John Updike on American Art.
Poetry for the joy of God.
Out of the mouths of babes.
$4 per gallon gasoline and a poem on a train.
Debauchery rules.
On the state of writing careers.
A rich bitch a la carte.
Should writers be marketers?
Here’s a great post on movies that are based on poems. The interesting thing about this list is that there are many movies based on the poems of Robert Service. I had no idea.
In 1982, there was a movie in the U.S. based on the Cremation of Sam McGee, one of my favorites. I was [...]