RIP R.L.
More sad news today… North Mississippi blues legend R.L. Burnside passed away last night. The AP reports “Burnside died Thursday morning at the St. Francis Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. His health had been declining for some time, said Matthew Johnson, owner of Burnside’s record label, Fat Possum.” Burnside was a sharecropper early in his life…
continue readingMS Bookstores Destroyed
Publishers Weekly continued their investigation into the status of bookstores in Louisiana and Mississippi and received unfortunate news yesterday. Hurricane Katrine inflicted irrevocable damage on Susan Daigre’s Bookends Bookstore in Bay St. Louis, MS. Also destroyed was Pass Christian Books in Pass Christian, MS, run by Scott Naugle and Richard Daley. “Both of those stores…
continue readingGulf Coast Bookstores and Hurricane Katrina
Of course public health and safety is of far more importance right now than soggy books as residents and officials struggle to deal with the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina. But of interest to the bookish folk, Publishers Weekly did make every attempt to learn the fate of bookstores in the New Orleans and Mississippi Gulf…
continue readingThe Trials of Freelancing
The “gang” at MobyLives has been on vacation for August, but there is a GREAT “column” this week called The Freelancer: Going to work in your pajamas is great … except when it’s not … written by Chris Rodell. He discusses BOTH THE POSITIVE AND THE NEGATIVE aspects to being a freelance writer and the…
continue readingBook of Revelation to be Filmed
Through “MaudNewton”, I learned this FANTASTIC news: Rupert Thomson’s incredible novel, The Book of Revelation is being “adapted” for film. In an “article” about ballet luminary Meryl Tankard, a news outlet reports the exciting news that “Tankard looks rested and calm despite a frantic schedule of projects, including choreographing the dance sequences for Ana Kokkinos’s…
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