Comments on: Theodore Solotaroff http://www.sharpsand.net/2008/08/13/theodore-solotaroff/ Joseph Duemer's blog about reading, writing, politics, birds, food, & weather Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:31:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: edward mycue http://www.sharpsand.net/2008/08/13/theodore-solotaroff/comment-page-1/#comment-8160 edward mycue Sat, 23 Aug 2008 16:55:24 +0000 http://www.sharpsand.net/?p=647#comment-8160 joseph, your last line 'Another believer in the efficacy of writing as an art is gone.' prompted this memory of a fine friend and writer of 40 years ago. ed GLIDE HESITATE PAUSE STOP …AND bicker, wide heart, tired all times, I hate that he died Some people are brands when packaging blooms into lifestyles Hester Prynne wore her scarlet letter for chastisement not sales later when less fashionable a brand is a middle-aged millstone they moved to Paradise, CA where MaryAnne’s mom had a home Ray’d married the 16year old Burk girl when he was 19 (b.1938) He graduated in 1963 from Humbolt State, Arcata, CA Maryann graduated in 1970 from San Jose State, CA Christina La Rae was born Dec 1957, Vance Lindsay born 1958 Ray had one brother James Franklin Carver born 1943 Ray was born in Clatskanie, OR, grew up in Yakima, WA Ray died a long time ago when he was about 50 and MaryAnne ( who he’d divorced; later married Tess) wrote a book in 2006 called What It used To Be Like: A Portrait Of My Marriage To Raymond Carver. (one in every four books is about someone?) Edward Mycue p.o.bx 640543 San Francisco CA 94164-0543 mycueed@yahoo.com www.writersartists.net joseph, your last line ‘Another believer in the efficacy of writing as an art is gone.’ prompted this memory of a fine friend and writer of 40 years ago. ed

GLIDE HESITATE PAUSE STOP

…AND bicker, wide heart, tired all times, I hate that he died

Some people are brands when packaging blooms into lifestyles

Hester Prynne wore her scarlet letter for chastisement not sales

later when less fashionable a brand is a middle-aged millstone

they moved to Paradise, CA where MaryAnne’s mom had a home

Ray’d married the 16year old Burk girl when he was 19 (b.1938)

He graduated in 1963 from Humbolt State, Arcata, CA

Maryann graduated in 1970 from San Jose State, CA

Christina La Rae was born Dec 1957, Vance Lindsay born 1958

Ray had one brother James Franklin Carver born 1943

Ray was born in Clatskanie, OR, grew up in Yakima, WA

Ray died a long time ago when he was about 50 and MaryAnne (

who he’d divorced; later married Tess) wrote a book in 2006

called What It used To Be Like: A Portrait Of My Marriage

To Raymond Carver. (one in every four books is about someone?)

Edward Mycue
p.o.bx 640543
San Francisco
CA 94164-0543

mycueed@yahoo.com

http://www.writersartists.net

]]> By: pablo http://www.sharpsand.net/2008/08/13/theodore-solotaroff/comment-page-1/#comment-8136 pablo Fri, 15 Aug 2008 21:30:39 +0000 http://www.sharpsand.net/?p=647#comment-8136 There was a rebroadcast on Fresh Air today of a 1987 interview with Solotaroff. I didn't get to hear all of it, but I heard him suggest contemporary editing as more akin to the marketing department than to any higher, literary calling. And that interview was 20 years ago. There was a rebroadcast on Fresh Air today of a 1987 interview with Solotaroff. I didn’t get to hear all of it, but I heard him suggest contemporary editing as more akin to the marketing department than to any higher, literary calling. And that interview was 20 years ago.

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