Christine schutt pure hollywood5/27/2023 Box 395, Union Avenue, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866. Residents are provided with lodging, studio space, and meals. Yaddo: Two- to eight-week residencies from November through May for poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers on a 400-acre estate in Saratoga Springs, New York. Pall-Meyer was a dirty old woman, no matter she was rich.” The sentence needed only a place to go, which I found a few years later, in a story called “Oh, the Obvious,” which appears in Pure Hollywood. Pall-Meyer, short-waisted, stooped, breasts shrunk to teardrops, Mrs. Some sentences were plucked as from the air, like this one, when the only other sound was the owl: “Mrs. What I did not expect was the salubrious effect of such quiet: It made me more receptive to sound. I expected quiet at Yaddo, and I found it. Our conversation inspired thoughts about a brother-and-sister story set in Los Angeles, the title to which came as suddenly as the epilogue. We talked about his daughter Laura Linney and her performance in a brother-sister movie I liked very much. I found a link to them in fellow resident Romulus Linney, who took me for a drive around the area and pointed out places where important work had been hatched. I had hoped that the great ghosts of Yaddo’s past would give me their blessing, and after a fashion they did. I went to Yaddo to finish a novel, and I came close to the end.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |