To expand on my last post, James W. Hall, like Lehane, does
hold a degree from Eckhert College where Sterling Watson is a
professor. I briefly met Hall at the PWI awards in Las Vegas
and Watson came up in the conversation because of a mutual
friend but I needed to verify the specifics about
Eckhert.
One novel by Watson that would be of interest to this list is
THE CALLING (1986) which features a character clearly and
distinctly modeled on his mentor Harry Crews. Crews told an
interviewer "All I did to Watson was try to teach him as much
as he could learn. I bought his whisky, I got him his agent.
I even wrote a blurb for his first novel. Then he wrote that
book. Not only did he have me in there but my ex-wife..."
When Watson called him after the book came out, Crews told
him "it was a blood offence he'd committed, one that only
blood can satisfy."
I understand Crews' anger but it didn't keep me from
thoroughly enjoying THE CALLING.
Richard Moore
--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Moore"
<moorich@...> wrote:
>
> --- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Bookbitch"
<BookBitch@>
> wrote:
> >
> has anyone read Sweet Dream Baby by Sterling Watson?
It's
> > a coming of age story set in small town Florida
in the 1950's
and
> is very
> > chilling. It was my understanding that it was
supposed to be
the
> first book
> > of a trilogy, but that was like 2003 or so and
nothing since. I
> really
> > liked this book but it was one of those that
really flew under
the
> wire.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Stacy
> >
> > I am the BookBitch
>
> I have not read that particular book but Sterling
Watson is a good
> writer. If I have my Florida writer's tree
correctly, Watson was
a
> student of Harry Crews and I believe Dennis Lehane
was a student
of
> Watson's. Lehane received a degree from the Eckert
College where
> Watson teaches and they have written together. I
also think James
> W. Hall was another student of Watson's
students.
>
> Richard Moore
>
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