Brad,
I have a vague memory of Thornburg coming to the lunch a few
times, but in general he did not mix with the local writers.
As I understand it, he made it a practice to move to whatever
city or town he was going to write about and live there for
quite some time while writing the book, and then moving on. I
have often wondered what his wife and kids, if he had either,
thought of that lifestyle.
Dennis-Michael
----- Original Message ----- From: "thebradstevens" <
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2005 2:54 AM Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Santa Barbara
> --- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Dennis Lynds"
> >
> > The Santa Barbara Writers Lunch---actually
brought from Sarasota,
> Florida,
> > by Willard Temple, a slick magazine writer, in
the Fifties---was
> totally
> > unstructured.
>
> I did not go that often back then because those were
the years I was
> > publishing as many as five, even six, novels a
year. In 1973 I had
> to move
> > the family back to New York for about two
years, and when I
> returned to
> > Santa Barbara, I rejoined the lunch
>
> Do you know if Newton Thornburg was a part of this
group? He moved to
> Santa Barbara in (I guess) the mid-70s, and wrote
what is for me the
> definitive Santa Barbara novel, CUTTER AND
BONE.
>
>
> > Over the years we
> > had the poets Phil Levine and Henri Coulette,
the novelists William
> Eastlake
>
> Eastlake is another one of my favorite writers. His
surreal war novel
> CASTLE KEEP is in many ways superior to CATCH
22.
>
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>
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