Monday, February 1

 

Newspaper Columns

 

Q:  Why are you writing CRITICAL FUDGE as a collection of newspaper columns?

      Isn’t that hard to sell?  If you aren’t already a name-brand newspaper columnist?

 

A:  Harder than a book of poems?

 

Q:  I see.

 

A:  I depends how long it runs.  And how long SCRIB is

      Scrib Online is a series of two books, SCRIB and CRITICAL FUDGE.

      But if SCRIB is short, and CRITICAL FUDGE is short, SCRIB ONLINE may be a book in two parts, “Scrib,” and “Critical Fudge.”

 

Q:  I see.

 

A:  My plan now is to stop writing columns and finish writing SCRIB.

      Five is a good introduction.  A good writing sample.

 

Q:  Not much demand for a Professor of Cracker Studies.

 

A:  A literature that excludes the Florida cracker is not pancultural, it’s discriminatory, in a reverse-bias way.  It’s chauvinistic and parochial.  New York is very provincial.

      Scrib cocks a snook at New York.

      That resonates, out in the sticks.

 

Q:  Howard Zinn ended up in Boston, but he started out at a historically black university in Atlanta, because that was the only job he could get.  The best job he could get.

 

A:  He made a difference where he was.

      That’s what Scrib is doing in Point and Shoot.

      At a home-made web site.

 

Q:  Scrib Online.

 

A:  Yes.  Make a difference where you are.  With what you have.

 


 

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