From Beth:
<<Currently I am smitten with Guy Davenport, and it has been wonderful to have some summer time to read at him. It takes a great deal of work for me to get through his pieces. An easier read and one relating to China is "The Richard Nixon Freischütz rag" from Da Vinci's Bicycle. Davenport is known for an assemblage style, and I enjoy trying to figure out how the pieces are linked. How does Da Vinci, Salai Jacopo, Nixon, Kissinger, Mao, G. Stein and A. Toklas relate to each other? Not only that but it's the rich cultural and political images that are also included--Freischütz, ragtime, Assissi, Cathay, Columbus, McKinley, Sassetta, Metternich....
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That Man Across the Street — Nonfiction, July/August 2005 -- by Jim Gourley
Rudenoon -- blog, photos, poetry, etc.
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From Julia:
<<Have you come across Gretel Ehrlich - I imagine you have. Am reading her Solace of Open Spaces and enjoying it.
http://www.parkcentralwebs.com/GretelEhrlich/bio.asp
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From Beth:
<<Yes--Gretel introduced Jim to me.She's a case for me where it is better not to know the person individually. I was too close to many of the things she describes in that book to know where she is coming from. It's also a good example of the writer versus the ones who actually live that life. She was able to peek into that life (as she describes in the book) too conveniently, but that is not