I ... have no idea, actually. I know they were going to run an ad, though. Cool!
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."
I've forwarded it to you so you can bask in the coolness...
Thank you, I just got it! Wow!
FInished Feed a couple of days ago--I really enjoyed it!
Hurrah! Hope you enjoy Deadline as well!
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The Big Announcement: US readers! The ebook edition of Soulless is $1.99 today only at your favorite ebook store.
Reading this blog revew of an Ayn Rand biography I was stunned in a "worlds colliding" sort of way to discover that she was friends with Rose Wilder Lane.
Reading this blog revew of an Ayn Rand biography I was stunned in a "worlds colliding" sort of way to discover that she was friends with Rose Wilder Lane.
Yeah, I love that stuff.
Like, Flannery O'Connor was at Yaddo the same summer as Patricia Highsmith and Chester Himes.
Or that Ursula K. Leguin was a classmate with Philip K. Dick at Berkeley High, and that Billy Martin was on the high school baseball team there at the same time.
Rose Wilder Lane was one of the preeminent libertarians of the mid-20th century, so that totally makes sense.
That's one of the main tenets of Ghost in the Little House, which posits that Rose was more of a ghost writer than simply an editor of her mother's work. (I have issues with that theory, considering the quality of her mother's earlier published work.)
Anyway, if you read the Little House books, they have a strong streak of "government sucks, pioneers did everything on their own, leave us alone." But if you look at what they actually did in real life, unfiltered from the writer's POV, the government assisted the Ingalls family tremendously, from the Homestead Act giving them every farm they owned, to Mary's college being completely paid for by the gov't (the money they scraped together was for her spending expenses), and the railroad that Pa worked on and that they relied upon for supplies and transportation was government-funded construction.
Well, and they lived in the surveyer's cabin at one point too.