I didn't know that about Hughes. I didn't know it about Kerouac, either, though.
I knew that about both of them but then, I'm a collector of odd facts.
Look, you got a little stabbed the other day. That's bound to make anyone a mite ornery.
Mal ,'Ariel'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Barb - Oct 10, 2009 11:36:27 am PDT #10200 of 28378
“Not dead yet!”
sj - Oct 10, 2009 11:46:58 am PDT #10201 of 28378
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Askye, I listened to it on CD, it gets more interesting as the story goes on, but I never really cared for the main character.
Amy - Oct 10, 2009 11:53:42 am PDT #10202 of 28378
Because books.
I've had a hard time with Alice Hoffman lately. Some of the new books I've loved, some I've just never gotten into.
Also, I now want to reread On the Road. And Sylvia Plath's journals.
DavidS - Oct 10, 2009 11:56:02 am PDT #10203 of 28378
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Also, I now want to reread On the Road.
All you'll find is homophobia there. He kept it pretty deep in the closet. But it's a regular part of his letters. He famously had a hotel fling with Gore Vidal.
Vidal's come on line? "C'mon, Jack. Do it for literary history."
Queer Beats: How the Beats Turned America On to Sex traces, for the first time, the queer pulse that throbs throughout the Beats’ writings—from William S. Burroughs’s Naked Lunch and Allen Ginsberg’s wistful, boy-loving sex poems to Jack Kerouac’s hero-worship of Neal Cassady—and Kerouac’s denial of having sex with men, despite erotic encounters with Ginsberg and Gore Vidal: "Posterity will laugh at me if it thinks I was queer."
Amy - Oct 10, 2009 11:59:33 am PDT #10204 of 28378
Because books.
I'd love to know if any hints of Hughes's bisexuality made it into the letters Plath's mother destroyed.
DavidS - Oct 10, 2009 12:02:42 pm PDT #10205 of 28378
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Ple, I'm not turning up a reference to Hughes' sexuality online. Was it in his letters or a bio?
P.M. Marc - Oct 10, 2009 1:48:22 pm PDT #10206 of 28378
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Langston (sexy writer #5), not Ted. I failed to disambiguate the Hughes.
Kathy A - Oct 10, 2009 1:51:51 pm PDT #10207 of 28378
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I just bought the new book by Audrey Niffenegger (author of Time Traveler's Wife). Definitely looking forward to reading it sometime before Halloween--fitting, since it is a ghost story.
Amy - Oct 10, 2009 2:09:12 pm PDT #10208 of 28378
Because books.
Langston (sexy writer #5), not Ted. I failed to disambiguate the Hughes.
Oh! Oops.
sj - Oct 10, 2009 2:44:09 pm PDT #10209 of 28378
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Apparently there are a few Buffy references in Martin Millar's Suzy, Led Zeppelin, and Me. TCG is reading it right now, and he keeps mentioning them to me.