Information to Users

Total Page:16

File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb

Information to Users INFORMATION TO USERS This manuscript has been reproduced from the microfilm master. UMI films the text directly from the original or copy submitted. Thus, some thesis and dissertation copies are in typewriter face, while others may be from any type of computer printer. The quality of this reproduction is dependent upon the quality of the copy submitted. Broken or indistinct print, colored or poor quality illustrations and photographs, print bleedthrough,m substandard a rgins, and improper alignment can adversely affect reproduction. In the unlikely event that the author did not send UMI a complete manuscript and there are missing pages, these will be noted. Also, if unauthorized coftyright material had to be removed, a note will indicate the deletion. Oversize materials (e.g., maps, drawings, charts) are reproduced by sectioning the original, beginning at the upper left-hand corner and continuing from left to right in equal sections with small overlaps. Each original is also photographed in one exposure and is included in reduced form at the back of the book. Photographs included in the original manuscript have been reproduced xerographically in this copy. Higher quality 6" x 9" black and white photographic prints are available for any photographs or illustrations appearing in this copy for an additional charge. Contact UMI directly to order. UMI University Microfilms International A Bell & Howell Information Company 300 North Zeeb Road. Ann Arbor, Ml 48106-1346 USA 313/761-4700 800/521-0600 Order Number 9401301 Writing outside/in: Nonfiction narrative as implicated text Lehman, Daniel Wayne, Ph.D. The Ohio State University, 1993 Copyright ©1993 by Lehman, Daniel Wayne. All rights reserved. UMI 300 N. Zeeb Rd. Ann Arbor, MI 48106 WRITING OUTSIDE/IN: NONFICTION NARRATIVE AS IMPLICATED TEXT DISSERTATION Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate School of The Ohio State University By Daniel Wayne Lehman, B.A., M.A. ***** The Ohio State University 1993 Dissertation Committee: Approved by Walter Davis John Hellmann Adviser Debra Moddelmog Department of English Copyright by Daniel Wayne Lehman 1993 To Barbara and Hadley 11 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I express sincere appreciation to the members of my advisory committee, Drs. Walter Davis, John Hellmann, and Debra Moddelmog, for their patient support, guidance, and insights during the research and presentation of this study. All three have taught me that the study of literature might be a study for life and that scholarship need not be remote from the problems and triumphs of the world. I would also like to thank Drs. James Phelan and Angela Jaffe, who read and offered suggestions on the early versions of some of the material in this study. Robert McGovern, chair of the Department of English at Ashland University, is gratefully acknowledged for his encouragement and professional example. Among the many writing colleagues who have taught me that journalism can be a force for positive change, I cite three by name: Jack Newfield, Bob Gibson, and Libby Wilson. To Hadley Lehman, I offer thanks for the excitement of your young life and for your ready smile. And to Barbara A. Lehman, I thank you for your example as a scholar and for your support as my companion and my best friend. Ill VITA August 29, 1950 ............. Born - Harrisonburg, Virginia 1972 ........................ B.A., Eastern Mennonite College, Harrisonburg, Virginia 1972-1986 ................... Reporter for The Columbian. The (Gramercy) Herald. The Brooklyn Paper. The (Charlottesville) Daily Progress 1988 ........................ M.A., Department of English, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. 1987-Present ............... Instructor and Assistant Professor, Departments of English and Communication Arts, Ashland University, Ashland, Ohio PUBLICATIONS Lehman, Daniel W. "Raymond Carver's Management of Symbol." Journal of the Short Story in English 17. (Fall, 1991): 43-58. Lehman, Barbara A., Lynn Johnson and Daniel W. Lehman. "Whole Language for Adult Literacy." Adult Learning 3 (Feb. 1992): 15-16, 26. FIELDS OF STUDY Major Field; English Studies in Nonfiction Narrative, Critical Theory, and Twentieth Century Literature IV TABLE OF CONTENTS DEDICATION............................................. ii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS............................................ill VITA .................................................... iv INTRODUCTION ........................................... 1 The Stakes of Nonfiction Narrative ................ 1 The Problem of Truth in Nonfiction Narrative . 12 Methodology and Outline .......................... 31 F o o t n o t e s ......................................... 37 CHAPTER PAGE I. THE IMPLICATED WRITER OF NONFICTION ......... 39 F o o t n o t e s ........................... 81 II. THE IMPLICATED READER OF NONFICTION ......... 82 F o o t n o t e s .............................. 132 III. JOHN REED AND THE WRITING OF REVOLUTION . 134 F o o t n o t e s .............................. 209 IV. TOM WOLFE AND THE WRITING OF RECAPTURE .... 211 F o o t n o t e s .............................. 285 V. JOAN DIDION AND THE WRITING OF RADIATION . 28 6 F o o t n o t e s .............................. 363 VI. WRITING OUTSIDE/IN: FINDINGS AND CONCLUSIONS . 365 WORKS C I T E D .............................................. 379 INTRODUCTION The Stakes of Nonfiction Narrative The call came late at night, as I remember it, long after my wife and daughter had gone to bed, and I was alone with the crickets and mosquitoes in the humid Virginia night. On the other end of the line was a distraught woman, a woman whose father had committed suicide the night before. He had scrambled out the window of a treatment center for chronic alcoholics, walked slowly and deliberately onto a nearby interstate highway, and died— head up and arms outstretched— on the grill of a 20-ton semi truck. I had written the story of his death for the afternoon newspaper, and the daughter was calling to dress me down. Her father had been a bank president and church deacon in life. His alcohol problems, she said, had been kept quite private, and his admission to the sanatorium had been a secret to all but his closest family members. My story that day, sketchy though it was, had aired some of these secrets, even to his own grandchildren, and the daughter could not understand why. Was the idea, she asked, to destroy her family? To parade her father's pain for 2 profit? What gave me the right, she demanded to know, to have the final say on her father's life? I tried to explain that I had stuck to official sources, to easily verifiable facts. I told her that the fatality had snarled highway traffic for more than an hour, that people had the right to know why they were inconvenienced, that the police had the obligation to state publicly that the truck driver was not at fault, that we had to try to explain to our readers why a man might scramble over a fence and walk onto the highway to die. But her voice got louder as the conversation grew longer, and I began to wish that I had taken my editor's advice and ordered an unlisted home telephone number. How much safer it would be, I reflected, to write fiction, to hide characters (or myself for that matter) behind assumed names. If I could only guard my anonymity, my privacy, my vulnerability. What I yearned for, in short, was the very same protection that I had denied the caller's father in death. It was in that recognition— reached in the early hours sometime past the midpoint of a professional reporting career— that I first really understood the stakes of writing nonfiction. I as a writer, the woman as a reader, her father as the subject of the narrative— each one of us was implicated materially and historically by the words on the page. Whether the narrative I had written of the 3 father's life could be defined as true or not was not the only point. Certainly it had many elements of fact; in no way had it been exposed as lies. It was marketed as truth by the author and by the newspaper which profited from its publication. And yet it had the indeterminacy of text as well; a text produced from other texts like police reports, medical records, morgue files, memories, observation, eyewitness accounts, telling details, quotes. I could no more guarantee it was true than say it was false. But these conventional generic markers— of truth and falsity, of fact and text— were, finally, almost beside the point. They had triggered the discussion, but what counted was how the story— this story— implicated its writer and its reader. That anguished call in the night was proof that what I had written that day— while its truth may have been presented in textual form— had a social and material effect that far transcends that of fiction. On one hand, the circumstances of its research, writing, publication, and consumption were, and are, deeply intertwined with what literary critics traditionally have called the "text." But its full power and problems cannot be understood until the discourse relations that undergird nonfiction are read as closely as the words and images that make up the text itself. 4 The topic of this dissertation therefore grows from my interest and training both in literature and in journalism, wherein I worked as a professional reporter and editor for fifteen years. Because I was engaged for so long in the research and writing of narratives that claim to be "history," I have some working understanding of the way that writing and reading nonfiction differs from writing and reading fiction. The writer of nonfiction produces a document for an audience that is engaged both inside and outside the text: both by the lure of the narrative and by the direct or indirect knowledge of the events and people on which the text is based. Even the reader who has never heard of the bank president before his suicide will, no doubt, have some understanding that an actual person has died and not merely a character of the imagination.
Recommended publications
  • December 1992
    VOLUME 16, NUMBER 12 MASTERS OF THE FEATURES FREE UNIVERSE NICKO Avant-garde drummers Ed Blackwell, Rashied Ali, Andrew JEFF PORCARO: McBRAIN Cyrille, and Milford Graves have secured a place in music history A SPECIAL TRIBUTE Iron Maiden's Nicko McBrain may by stretching the accepted role of When so respected and admired be cited as an early influence by drums and rhythm. Yet amongst a player as Jeff Porcaro passes metal drummers all over, but that the chaos, there's always been away prematurely, the doesn't mean he isn't as vital a play- great discipline and thought. music—and our lives—are never er as ever. In this exclusive interview, Learn how these free the same. In this tribute, friends find out how Nicko's drumming masters and admirers share their fond gears move, and what's tore down the walls. memories of Jeff, and up with Maiden's power- • by Bill Milkowski 32 remind us of his deep ful new album and tour. 28 contributions to our • by Teri Saccone art. 22 • by Robyn Flans THE PERCUSSIVE ARTS SOCIETY For thirty years the Percussive Arts Society has fostered credibility, exposure, and the exchange of ideas for percus- sionists of every stripe. In this special report, learn where the PAS has been, where it is, and where it's going. • by Rick Mattingly 36 MD TRIVIA CONTEST Win a Sonor Force 1000 drumkit—plus other great Sonor prizes! 68 COVER PHOTO BY MICHAEL BLOOM Education 58 ROCK 'N' JAZZ CLINIC Back To The Dregs BY ROD MORGENSTEIN Equipment Departments 66 BASICS 42 PRODUCT The Teacher Fallacy News BY FRANK MAY CLOSE-UP 4 EDITOR'S New Sabian Products OVERVIEW BY RICK VAN HORN, 8 UPDATE 68 CONCEPTS ADAM BUDOFSKY, AND RICK MATTINGLY Tommy Campbell, Footwork: 6 READERS' Joel Maitoza of 24-7 Spyz, A Balancing Act 45 Yamaha Snare Drums Gary Husband, and the BY ANDREW BY RICK MATTINGLY PLATFORM Moody Blues' Gordon KOLLMORGEN Marshall, plus News 47 Cappella 12 ASK A PRO 90 TEACHERS' Celebrity Sticks BY ADAM BUDOFSKY 146 INDUSTRY FORUM AND WILLIAM F.
    [Show full text]
  • The Egyptian Enlightenment and Mann, Freud, and Freund
    CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture ISSN 1481-4374 Purdue University Press ©Purdue University Volume 15 (2013) Issue 1 Article 4 The Egyptian Enlightenment and Mann, Freud, and Freund Rebecca C. Dolgoy University of Oxford Follow this and additional works at: https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb Part of the American Studies Commons, Comparative Literature Commons, Education Commons, European Languages and Societies Commons, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Commons, Other Arts and Humanities Commons, Other Film and Media Studies Commons, Reading and Language Commons, Rhetoric and Composition Commons, Social and Behavioral Sciences Commons, Television Commons, and the Theatre and Performance Studies Commons Dedicated to the dissemination of scholarly and professional information, Purdue University Press selects, develops, and distributes quality resources in several key subject areas for which its parent university is famous, including business, technology, health, veterinary medicine, and other selected disciplines in the humanities and sciences. CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, the peer-reviewed, full-text, and open-access learned journal in the humanities and social sciences, publishes new scholarship following tenets of the discipline of comparative literature and the field of cultural studies designated as "comparative cultural studies." Publications in the journal are indexed in the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (Chadwyck-Healey), the Arts and Humanities Citation Index (Thomson Reuters ISI), the Humanities Index (Wilson), Humanities International Complete (EBSCO), the International Bibliography of the Modern Language Association of America, and Scopus (Elsevier). The journal is affiliated with the Purdue University Press monograph series of Books in Comparative Cultural Studies. Contact: <[email protected]> Recommended Citation Dolgoy, Rebecca C.
    [Show full text]
  • Directory of Seminars, Speakers, & Topics
    Columbia University | THE UNIVERSITY SEMINARS 2016 2015DIRECTORY OF SEMINARS, SPEAKERS, & TOPICS Contents Introduction . 4 History of the University Seminars . 6 Annual Report . 8 Leonard Hastings Schoff Memorial Lectures Series . 10 Schoff and Warner Publication Awards . 13 Digital Archive Launch . 16 Tannenbaum-Warner Award and Lecture . .. 17 Book Launch and Reception: Plots . 21 2015–2016 Seminar Conferences: Women Mobilizing Memory: Collaboration and Co-Resistance . 22 Joseph Mitchell and the City: A Conversation with Thomas Kunkel And Gay Talese . 26 Alberto Burri: A Symposium at the Italian Academy of Columbia University . 27 “Doing” Shakespeare: The Plays in the Theatre . 28 The Politics of Memory: Victimization, Violence, and Contested Memories of the Past . 30 70TH Anniversary Conference on the History of the Seminar in the Renaissance . .. 40 Designing for Life And Death: Sustainable Disposition and Spaces Of Rememberance in the 21ST Century Metropolis . 41 Calling All Content Providers: Authors in the Brave New Worlds of Scholarly Communication . 46 104TH Meeting of the Society of Experimental Psychologists . 47 From Ebola to Zika: Difficulties of Present and Emerging Infectious Diseases . 50 The Quantitative Eighteenth Century: A Symposium . 51 Appetitive Behavior Festchrift: A Symposium Honoring Tony Sclafani and Karen Ackroff . 52 Indigenous Peoples’ Rights and Unreported Struggles: Conflict and Peace . 55 The Power to Move . 59 2015– 2016 Seminars . 60 Index of Seminars . 160 Directory of Seminars, Speakers, & Topics 2015–2016 3 ADVISORY COMMITTEE 2015–2016 Robert E. Remez, Chair Professor of Psychology, Barnard College George Andreopoulos Professor, Political Science and Criminal Justice CUNY Graduate School and University Center Susan Boynton Professor of Music, Columbia University Jennifer Crewe President and Director, Columbia University Press Kenneth T.
    [Show full text]
  • Pandoras Box CD-List 06-2006 Short
    Pandoras Box CD-list 06-2006 short.xls Form ARTIST TITLE year No Label price CD 2066 & THEN Reflections !! 1971 SB 025 Second Battle 15,00 € CD 3 HUEREL 3 HUEREL 1970-75 WPC6 8462 World Psychedelic 17,00 € CD 3 HUEREL Huerel Arisivi 1970-75 WPC6 8463 World Psychedelic 17,00 € CD 3SPEED AUTOMATIC no man's land 2004 SA 333 Nasoni 15,00 € CD 49 th PARALLELL 49 th PARALLELL 1969 Flashback 008 Flashback 11,90 € CD 49TH PARALLEL 49TH PARALLEL 1969 PACELN 48 Lion / Pacemaker 17,90 € CD 50 FOOT HOSE Cauldron 1968 RRCD 141 Radioactive 14,90 € CD 7 th TEMPLE Under the burning sun 1978 RRCD 084 Radioactive 14,90 € CD A - AUSTR Music from holy Ground 1970 KSG 014 Kissing Spell 19,95 € CD A BREATH OF FRESH AIR A BREATH OF FRESH AIR 196 RRCD 076 Radioactive 14,90 € CD A CID SYMPHONY FISCHBACH AND EWING - (21966CD) -67 GF-135 Gear Fab 14,90 € CD A FOOT IN COLDWATER A Foot in coldwater 1972 AGEK-2158 Unidisc 15,00 € CD A FOOT IN COLDWATER All around us 1973 AGEK-2160 Unidisc 15,00 € CD A FOOT IN COLDWATER best of - Vol. 1 1973 BEBBD 25 Bei 9,95 € CD A FOOT IN COLDWATER best of - Vol. 2 1973 BEBBD 26 Bei 9,95 € CD A FOOT IN COLDWATER The second foot in coldwater 1973 AGEK-2159 Unidisc 15,00 € CD A FOOT IN COLDWATER best of - (2CD) 1972-73 AGEK2-2161 Unidisc 17,90 € CD A JOINT EFFORT FINAL EFFORT 1968 RRCD 153 Radioactive 14,90 € CD A PASSING FANCY A Passing Fancy 1968 FB 11 Flashback 15,00 € CD A PASSING FANCY A Passing Fancy - (Digip.) 1968 PACE-034 Pacemaker 15,90 € CD AARDVARK Aardvark 1970 SRMC 0056 Si-Wan 19,95 € CD AARDVARK AARDVARK - (lim.
    [Show full text]
  • Qt4nd9t5tt.Pdf
    UC Irvine FlashPoints Title Moses and Multiculturalism Permalink https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4nd9t5tt ISBN 978-0-520-26254-6 Author Johnson, Barbara Publication Date 2010 eScholarship.org Powered by the California Digital Library University of California Moses and Multiculturalism UCP_Johnson_Moses-ToPress.indd 1 12/1/09 10:10 AM FlashPoints The series solicits books that consider literature beyond strictly national and dis- ciplinary frameworks, distinguished both by their historical grounding and their theoretical and conceptual strength. We seek studies that engage theory without losing touch with history, and work historically without falling into uncritical positivism. FlashPoints will aim for a broad audience within the humanities and the social sciences concerned with moments of cultural emergence and transformation. In a Benjaminian mode, FlashPoints is interested in how literature contributes to forming new constellations of culture and history, and in how such formations func- tion critically and politically in the present. Available online at http://repositories .cdlib.org/ucpress s eries editors Judith Butler, Edward Dimendberg, Catherine Gallagher, Susan Gillman Richard Terdiman, Chair 1. On Pain of Speech: Fantasies of the First Order and the Literary Rant, by Dina Al-Kassim 2. Moses and Multiculturalism, by Barbara Johnson UCP_Johnson_Moses-ToPress.indd 2 12/1/09 10:10 AM Moses and Multiculturalism Barbara Johnson Foreword by Barbara Rietveld UN IVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS Berkeley Los Angeles London UCP_Johnson_Moses-ToPress.indd 3 12/1/09 10:10 AM University of California Press, one of the most distinguished university presses in the United States, enriches lives around the world by advancing scholarship in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences.
    [Show full text]
  • Examining the Magazine Industry Standard
    POINT OF VIEW: EXAMINING THE MAGAZINE INDUSTRY STANDARD A Thesis presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School at the University of Missouri In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Arts by CRISTINA DAGLAS John Fennell, Thesis Supervisor MAY 2009 © Copyright by Cristina Daglas 2009 All Rights Reserved The undersigned, appointed by the dean of the Graduate School, have examined the thesis entitled POINT OF VIEW : EXAMINING THE MAGAZINE INDUSTRY STANDARD presented by Cristina Daglas, a candidate for the degree of master of arts, and hereby certify that, in their opinion, it is worthy of acceptance. Professor John Fennell Professor Jennifer Rowe Professor Amanda Hinnant Professor Maureen Stanton ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I am immensely grateful to my thesis chair, John Fennell, who believed in both the necessity for and the feasibility of this research. When many doubted the ability to interview prominent magazine professionals, John provided support and guidance while always keeping setbacks and successes in perspective. John has been a mentor from first semester of graduate school when I enrolled in his writing course, and I am so pleased that I could pursue a topic I am incredibly passionate about with his guidance. However, this research would naturally not be what it is without the rest of my fabulous committee. Jennifer Rowe, my other mentor, adviser and friend, was an invaluable resource, as she provided big-picture edits, line edits and, most importantly, support. Amanda Hinnant provided advice in the earliest days of thesis conception as well as the scholarly perspective necessary in any academic work. Maureen Stanton was also a wonderful resource, imparting an outside, nonfiction mindset that added another dimension to this journalistic thesis.
    [Show full text]
  • Mr. Claro -- Modern Nonfiction Reading Selection by Joan Didion Holy Water JOAN DIDION Is a Fifth-Generation Californian, Born I
    Untitled Document Mr. Claro -- Modern Nonfiction Reading Selection by Joan Didion Holy Water JOAN DIDION is a fifth-generation Californian, born in Sacramento (1934), who took her B.A. at Berkeley and lives in Los Angeles. Between college and marriage to the writer John Gregory Dunne, she lived in New York for seven years, where she worked as an editor for Vogue and wrote essays for the National Review and the Saturday Evening Post. In California, Didion and Dunne separately write novels and magazine articles and collaborate on screenplays. Didion's novels are Run River (1963), Play It as It Lays (1970), A Book of Common Prayer (1977), and Democracy (1984). Her collections of essays are Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968), The White Album (1979), from which we have taken this selection, and After Henry (1992). She published Salvador in 1983, in 1987 Miami. Joan Didion is one of our best nonfiction writers. She describes the alien, simple California she grew up in and the southern California where she now lives - a landscape of drive-ins and orange groves, ocean and freeway, the Manson murders and ordinary, domestic, adulterous homicide. She has done witness to the turmoils of the decades, especially the sixties - drugs, Vietnam, and personal breakdown. Expertly sensitive and inventive with language, she is most talented in the representation of hysteria. While her book about El Salvador mentions politics, it is essentially the record of a sensibility, sensitive to fear, exposed to an atmosphere that engenders it: "Terror is the given of the place." Much of Didion's journalism derives from interviews.
    [Show full text]
  • A Conversation About King Rocker Between the Quietus, Stewart Lee, Michael Cumming and Robert Lloyd
    No Image: A conversation about King Rocker between the Quietus, Stewart Lee, Michael Cumming and Robert Lloyd. It looks like a music documentary. Look, there’s a famous person [Stewart Lee] walking out of a train station telling viewers where they are and why it’s important. Now they’re telling us what is going on and why we’re here. It feels like a music documentary. And King Rocker, Michael Cumming and Stewart Lee’s film about Robert Lloyd and The Nightingales is one. It’s also not. You’d expect a film by the director of Brass Eye and Toast of London, and the comedian behind some of the most brilliant stand-up ever to come from these shores to be funny and smart but the experience of King Rocker explodes those expectations. It’s not hyperbole to say this is one of the best music documentaries of all time. Hilarious and brilliantly knowing about the form of music documentaries and caustic about the music industry and fame, at its moving heart it’s a wonderful homage to and portrait of a true outsider artist and inspiring comeback story that in the already boiling maelstrom of 2021 feels profoundly necessary. The film follows Stewart Lee and Robert Lloyd as they talk about Lloyd’s life as front-man and creative driver of post-punk favourites The Prefects and latterly The Nightingales. Through a series of funny and insightful conversations as they hunt down a famous 1970s public art sculpture of King Kong that is central to both men’s stories, the pair and assorted friends, acolytes and naysayers including the rest of the band and family members plus Frank Skinner, John Taylor (yep, of Duran Duran), Nigel Slater (!) and Robin Askwith (!!) discuss the past, the ups, the downs and the hazy memories of it all.
    [Show full text]
  • The L.A. Earthquake Sourcebook
    THE L.A. EARTHQUAKE SOURCEBOOK Produced by Richard Koshalek and Mariana Amatullo 2/3 Copyright © 2008 Designmatters at Southern California earthquake maps reprinted Art Center College of Design. courtesy of the U. S. Geological Survey. Excerpt from All rights reserved. ISBN 978-0-9618705-0-8 “Los Angeles Days” reprinted with the permission of Simon and Schuster Adult Publishing Group from Design: Sagmeister Inc., NYC After Henry by Joan Didion. Copyright © 1992 by Managing Editor: Gloria Gerace Joan Didion. All rights reserved. Pp. 97–100 from Ask Editor: Alex Carswell The Dust by John Fante. Copyright © 1980 by John Printer: Capital Offset Co. Fante. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers. Excerpt from As I Remember by Arnold Genthe. Copyright © 1936 by Reynal & Hitchcock. Reprinted by permission of Ayer Company Publishers. “When Mother Nature Visits Southern California” by David Hernandez, 1998, used by permission of the author. Excerpt from “Assembling California” from Annals of the Former World by John McPhee. Copyright © 1998 by John McPhee. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC. Excerpt from “Folklore of Earthquakes” from Fool’s Paradise: The Carey McWilliams Reader. Reprinted by permission of Harold Ober Associates Incorporated. Copyright © 1933 by Carey McWilliams. First published in American Mercury. “When Living on the Edge Becomes Stark–Naked Reality” originally appeared in the Los Angeles Times. Copyright © 1987 Carolyn See. Used by permission of the author. Excerpt from “The L.A. Quake” © 1994 Lawrence S C C Weschler. Used by permission of the author. The full E essay appeared in the Threepenny Review and is part an NSF+USGS center of Vermeer in Bosnia: Cultural Comedies and Political Tragedies, Pantheon, 2004.
    [Show full text]
  • Donna Leinwand, President, National Press Club
    NATIONAL PRESS CLUB LUNCHEON WITH TERRENCE D. JONES SUBJECT: TERRENCE D. JONES, PRESIDENT AND CEO, WOLF TRAP FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS, WILL PRESENT “A CASE FOR AMERICA’S NATIONAL PARKS THROUGH THE ARTIST’S LENS”. MR. JONES WILL BE JOINED BY SPECIAL GUEST, JUDY COLLINS. MODERATOR: DONNA LEINWAND, PRESIDENT, NATIONAL PRESS CLUB LOCATION: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB BALLROOM, WASHINGTON, D.C. TIME: 1:00 P.M. EDT DATE: MONDAY, MARCH 23, 2009 (C) COPYRIGHT 2009, NATIONAL PRESS CLUB, 529 14TH STREET, WASHINGTON, DC - 20045, USA. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. ANY REPRODUCTION, REDISTRIBUTION OR RETRANSMISSION IS EXPRESSLY PROHIBITED. UNAUTHORIZED REPRODUCTION, REDISTRIBUTION OR RETRANSMISSION CONSTITUTES A MISAPPROPRIATION UNDER APPLICABLE UNFAIR COMPETITION LAW, AND THE NATIONAL PRESS CLUB. RESERVES THE RIGHT TO PURSUE ALL REMEDIES AVAILABLE TO IT IN RESPECT TO SUCH MISAPPROPRIATION. FOR INFORMATION ON BECOMING A MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL PRESS CLUB, PLEASE CALL 202-662-7505. DONNA LEINWAND: (Sounds gavel.) Good afternoon and welcome to the National Press Club. My name is Donna Leinwand. I’m a reporter for USA Today and I’m president of the National Press Club. We’re the world’s leading professional organization for journalists. And on behalf of our 3,600 members worldwide, I’d like to welcome our speaker and our guests in the audience today. I’d also like to welcome those of you who are watching on C-Span. We’re celebrating our 100th anniversary this year, and we’ve rededicated ourselves to a commitment to a future of journalism through informative programming, journalism education, and fostering a free press worldwide. For more information about the Press Club, please visit our website at www.press.org.
    [Show full text]
  • Joan Didion 'On Keeping a Notebook'
    McQ_Part-I.qxd 24/11/2005 12:19 PM Page 21 Joan Didion On Keeping a Notebook The author of novels, short stories, screenplays, and essays, Joan Didion (b. 1934) began her career in 1956 as a staff writer at Vogue magazine in New York. In 1963 she published her first novel, Run River, and the following year returned to her native California. Didion’s essays have appeared in periodicals ranging from Mademoiselle to the National Review. Her essay “On Keeping a Notebook” can be found in her collection of essays, Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968). Didion’s other nonfiction publications include The White Album (1979), Salvador (1983), Miami (1987), After Henry (1992), Political Fictions (2001), Fixed Ideas: America since 9.11 (2003), and Where I Was From (2003). Didion has defined a writer as “a person whose most absorbed and passion­ ate hours are spent arranging words on pieces of paper. I write entirely to find out what’s on my mind, what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I’m seeing and what it means, what I want and what I’m afraid of.” She has also said that “all writing is an attempt to find out what matters, to find the pattern in disorder, to find the grammar in the shimmer. Actually I don’t know whether you find the grammar in the shimmer or you impose a grammar on the shimmer, but I am quite specific about the grammar — I mean it literally. The scene that you see in your mind finds its own structure; the structure dictates the arrangement of the words.
    [Show full text]
  • Commentary on the Harmony of the Law Vol. 3
    THE AGES DIGITAL LIBRARY COMMENTARY HARMONY OF THE LAW VOLUME 3 by John Calvin B o o k s F o r Th e A g e s AGES Software • Albany, OR USA Version 1.0 © 1998 2 COMMENTARIES ON THE FOUR LAST BOOKS OF MOSES ARRANGED IN THE FORM OF A HARMONY BY JOHN CALVIN VOLUME FOURTH Translated From The Original Latin, And Compared With The French Edition; With Annotations, Etc., By The Rev. Charles William Bingham, M.A. Rector Of Melcombe-Horsey, Dorset, And Formerly Fellow Of New College, Oxford THE SECOND TABLE OF THE LAW THE FIRST COMMANDMENT OF WHICH IS THE FIFTH OF THE LAW 3 THE FIFTH COMMANDMENT EXODUS 20 <022012>EXODUS 20:12 12. Honor thy father and thy 12. Honora patrem tuum et mother; that thy days may be long matrem tuam— ut prorogentur upon the land which the Lord thy dies tui super terram quam Jehova God giveth thee. Deus tuus dat tibi. ITS REPETITION DEUTERONOMY 5 <050516>DEUTERONOMY 5:16 16. Honor thy father and thy mother, 16. Honora patrem tuum et as the Lord thy God hath commanded matrem tuam, quemadmodum thee; that thy days may be prolonged, praecepit tibi Jehova, Deus tuus: and that it may go well with thee, in ut prorogentur dies tui et ut bene the land which the Lord thy God sit tibi super terram quam Jehova giveth thee. Deus tuus dat tibi. I am not ignorant that the Tables of the Law are usually divided in a different manner; f1 for those, who make only one of the first two Commandments, are obliged finally to mangle the last.
    [Show full text]