STONE READER
A critically acclaimed book vanishes and its author forgotten. One reader is determined to find out why.
This is a movie that delves into (by the back door) many aspects of writing and publishing. It is a must-see by all authors.
Below is a list of books and authors mentioned in STONE READER (or shown on shelves) in the movie and/or cut from it and/or read and thought about while making it.
The authors and books in bold I’ve read.
* William Wordsworth, Tintern Abbey
* James Joyce, Poems
* John Seelye, The Kid & Beautiful Machine
* Dr. Seuss, The Cat in the Hat
* Lord Byron, Collected Works
* Howard Mosher, Northern Borders (coming of age story set in Vermont)
* John Frederick, The Darkened Sky
* Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook (& introduction to the 1972 10th anniversary edition)
* R.A. Lafferty, Fourth Mansions (SF)
* Vladimir Nabokov, Invitation to a Beheading
* John Barth, The Floating Opera (Leslie Fiedler’s favorite modern American 1st novel)
* William Kotzwinkle, The Fan Man
* Crocket Johnson, Harold and the Purple Crayon
* Ben Hogan’s Power Golf
* Claire Bee’s Chip Hilton series
* Dan Guenther, China Wind
* John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces
* Ross Lockridge, Raintree County
* Thomas Hegan, Mr. Roberts
* Siri Hustvedt, The Blindfold
* William Manchester, The Last Lion
* Ferol Egan, Fremont
* A. Yehoshua, Five Seasons
* Janet Hobhouse, The Furies
* Christopher Isherwood, Berlin Stories
* Peter Taylor, A Summons to Memphis
* Virginia Woolf, A Voyage Out
* James Lord, Picasso and Dora
* Franklin W. Dixon’s Hardy Boys books
* Colin Wilson
* Mark Twain Puddinhead Wilson, Huckleberry Finn, A *Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
* Madeline L’Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
* Ernest Hemingway, Old Man and the Sea
* Henry Roth, Call It Sleep
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Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Proloque Post # 4
NULLE DIES SINE LINEA
While outside of the scope of this book this is one of the most useful terms I know. NO DAY WITHOUT A LINE. A Latin Renaissance term for artists, it is as useful to today’s writers as it was for Benvenuto Cellini and Miguelangelo Bunnarotti. Write every day. Graham Green wrote 500 words then stopped. Steven King writes 2,000 a day no matter what. One author said it simply, “write a page a day and you’ll have a book at the end of a year.” Hemingway counseled count your daily word progress. I aim for a thousand words a day. What ever you decide set a goal and keep to it. You’ll be amazed at your progress.
FYI: People want to read your book. They just don’t know about it yet.
Most important try and have fun. Remember it is only a book. With luck this book will be followed by many other books. You only have one life and one family. Don not ignore either. Stay healthy and stay happy.
Now the question is how to get your book into the hands of the public. The answer is you have to tell them about it, either through advertising or publicity.
While outside of the scope of this book this is one of the most useful terms I know. NO DAY WITHOUT A LINE. A Latin Renaissance term for artists, it is as useful to today’s writers as it was for Benvenuto Cellini and Miguelangelo Bunnarotti. Write every day. Graham Green wrote 500 words then stopped. Steven King writes 2,000 a day no matter what. One author said it simply, “write a page a day and you’ll have a book at the end of a year.” Hemingway counseled count your daily word progress. I aim for a thousand words a day. What ever you decide set a goal and keep to it. You’ll be amazed at your progress.
FYI: People want to read your book. They just don’t know about it yet.
Most important try and have fun. Remember it is only a book. With luck this book will be followed by many other books. You only have one life and one family. Don not ignore either. Stay healthy and stay happy.
Now the question is how to get your book into the hands of the public. The answer is you have to tell them about it, either through advertising or publicity.
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