<< Thanks to Bill Denton for the update on Dennis
MacMillan and Willeford.
The latter's article on Jim Tully is characteristically
lucid and
beautifully written. Willeford was a natural writer and an
original. His
death was an irreparable loss to American letters.
>>
I would agree that the the Tully article was great fun. As an
underemployed,
regular job-avoiding, sometime writer, library habitue, I was
a little
nervous about this sentence: "Road kids, professional
criminals, dope
addicts, radio announcers, writers, and other society misfits
who are
constitutionally unable or unwilling to hold a regular job,
spend many
fruitful hours in public libraries." I'm keeping this article
hidden from my
wife; she knows I'm not a radio announcer or a road kid, and
is ambivalent
about my writing.
Best,
Doug
#
# To unsubscribe, say "unsubscribe rara-avis" to
majordomo@icomm.ca.
# The web pages for the list are at http://www.vex.net/~buff/rara-avis/.