Archive for the ‘Raymond Carver’ category
Two Raymond Carver Stories Read
January 22, 2013Article in Business Insider mentions me…
October 10, 2011A curious and flattering matter here, last week in Business Insider, Wall Street whiz guru James Altucher mentioned me several times in his column, “Six Things I Learned from Charles Bukowski.”
And I would like to shout link this interesting artcle in this weekend’s New York Magazine‘s Books section, “Just Kids,” about literary movements come and gone…being a current New Yorker person myself, such reading material is right on my doorstep, wet from rain and prime to ponder.
Carver Bio
September 12, 2011Hey, Googler, my Raymond Carver life project is an interpretive biography, not critical, although there will be some critical aspects to certain stories that relate to his life story.
I am applying Norman K. Denzin’s Interpretative Biography as my lense — a sociological approach rather than literary, per se. Denzin’s method is to focus on pinpoints of epiphany in the subject’s life, which Carver had many: the day he met his first wife, his first story published, his first story in a major magazine, the day he quit drinking, his first collection, his first NYTBR glow, meeting his second wife, etc.
Book is not done. We are most likely looking at a late 2012 pub date, or early 2013.
What Will I Write and Publish in 2011?
January 2, 2011I’ll be focusing on completing a number of overdue non-fiction projects, such as a Carver crit book and Carver sociological biography, the Vollmann annotated biblio, snd the updated paperback version of my auto/ethnography, Zona Norte. Hopefully as well, my monographs on Barry malzberg and Robert Silverberg’s softcore titles from the 1960s.
Along with these, the only fiction title I have scheduled so far is a Wildside Double of a short novel with time travel elements, Poison from a Dead Sun, and a collection of time travel SF stories, The Chronotope.
But there will be more…
I have two collections of stories I am shopping around, Cardiff by the Sea and This is My Time.
Two crime noir novels are also on the market: Hard Cold Whisper and A Bra Full of Bullets.
I plan to finish my big novel\, Lunch on the Grass, and two YA novels for the agent to sell…
I might complete a book-length essay, The Moon Under Her Feet, about Americans in Tijuana.
Of course, there is the hope that my current collection of stories, Pictures of Houses with Water Damage, will garner decent reviews and get some attention…
I would like to find a home at a decent NY trade house this year.
And of course there is Tinsel Town: screenplays, TV pilots, and meetings…
I will return to this blog post this time next year and see what I did or did not finish, and what books I published.
Current Projects for 2010
March 16, 2010Novels to finish:
Lunch on the Grass
Time Lust
A Bra Full of Bullets
Non-fiction:
Women in Carver’s Stories
Carver: An Interpretative Biography
Gordon Lish and His Influence on Contemporary American Fiction
Auto-ethnographies: Essays
The Reflexive Gaze of Critifiction
American Softcore: Those Sexy Vintage Sleaze Paperbacks
Collections:
First Person Sociology
Sunlight Reflections on a Crushed Beer Can
Carver Essay Accepted
October 14, 2009My essay, “‘Will We Still Be Us?’ : Raymond Carver’s Short Plays” has been accepted for publication in issue 3 of The Raymond Carver Review, to be published in 2010.
I may also use it as a secondary chapter in my McFarland Carver crit book, not sure yet.
Carver Bibliographic Checklist by Michael Hemmingson
August 10, 2009The annual hardbound journal, Resources for American Literary Studies, will publish, later this year, my bibliography of Raymond Carver’s limited editions, chaopbooks, and broadsides that are quite hard to find and hiused in specal collection libraries. It’s a 5,200 word piece, annotated and detailed.
Since when did I, Hemmingson!, become a bibliographer? Well, I am doing an annotated bib on William T. Vollmann for Scarecrow Press.
what they talk about when they talk about my carver biography
April 6, 2009see here.