Amid all this heavy lifting of my research notes, I re-read my essay, "A Chorus of Clowns and Masked Comic Theater" " written for Realms of Fantasy on the history of clowns, from antiquity to the Marx Brothers. It's funny, and I enjoyed re-reading it as it provides a comprehensive view of the different […]
Interlude in the Research: Call in the Clowns, Satyrs, Fools, and Nymphs. Read More »
(Photos by Peter Zelei/istockphoto and John Robert Shepard) This happened across my internet desk one morning, and I stopped everything to read it. The poet Donald Hall wrote a short story about a journey he took post-WWII with his very young bride, driving from Oxford to Greece by way of Yugoslavia. It is one of
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I spent the morning revising a bit and adding more art to “A Chorus of Clowns and Masked Comic Theater,” an article I wrote long ago for the “Folkroots Column” in Realms of Fantasy and then republished the Journal of Mythic Arts. I had almost forgotten how interesting it was (well…to me at least) reaching
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audio files of Flannery O’Connor :Here's an for an audio file of Flannery O'Connor giving a lecture on "A Good Man is Hard to Find." It's absolutely wonderful (thanks Hank foor giving me the new link!) — and I am so happy for the chance to hear her voice — a combination of girlish
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