I wasn’t much of a blogger last week, and I won’t be much of one this week. Part of my busyness will be preparing for Mother’s Day next Sunday. I have a beautiful, enchanting wife, a mother of four, who deserves better from me at every turn, and I want to tell her so next weekend. If I can get around to it.
Anyway, here are some links of potential interest.
“Just last week, The Capital Times, a 90-year-old daily newspaper in Madison, Wis., ended its print version and began publishing only online.” A strong business/technology magazine publisher is working that way too.
Kristen asks about books being made into movies in light of Prince Caspian’s release next week.
The creator of “Family Guy,” Seth MacFarlane, has signed deal with 20th Century Fox TV “that would make him the highest-paid writer-producer working in television.”
Patrick Kurp is reading A Step from Death by Larry Woiwode:
Some of the most moving pages I’ve read thus far in A Step from Death concern the late William Maxwell, the novelist who edited Woiwode’s early work at The New Yorker. They shared another bond: Both lost their mothers while they were still boys – a loss always at the heart of Maxwell’s fiction. When they first speak of the unhealed rupture in their lives, Maxwell begins, “To lose a mother at that age –,” and stops. Woiwode writes:
“It’s all he says, and we sit in the resonance you feel in the air after a church bell rings in the steeple next door, and then a tear slides from a corner of his eye – the right the most prone to spill – and although he has said it to me, I know he’s referring to himself, too, and his mother, who died when he was ten, and he doesn’t say a word more. We attend to the resonance like tuning forks vibrating at the same frequency. He is sixty, resilient, cheerful, the only person I know who can speak with joie de vivre while tears runs, but he’s never been able to accept her death.”
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