3.21.2005
Gilead wins National Book Critics Circle prize
The Iowa City Press-Citizen has a kind of charming local take on this well-deserved honor for Marilynne Robinson, including some appropriate "gee whiz" comments from her son and a big picture observation or two from Jim McPherson. The paper also says it's in the running for the Pulitzer Prize. And, of course, it's up for the Pen/Faulkner award, which will be announced "in April."
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I had a dream about Marilynne last night, one in which she was letting me stay in her house while she was away. I have had several dreams of her in the past, which I think is for the same reason I dream about one particular ex-boyfriend of mine, years after the gnarly breakup - namely, because I feel wronged by her (in her case, for savaging a story of mine) but also still desperately want to impress her. I'm so textbook!
On an unrelated note, I also dreamed that I discovered that my cell phone, instead of being turned to its usual "Meeting" setting (i.e., a single, discreet beep instead of a ring), was in fact turned to the "Camping" setting, but I didn't ever discover what that entailed.
The kudos for Gilead are well-deserved, but they also give me hope because her beautiful, un-flashy writing is still considered worthwhile. Also that people are still willing to read her new book after twenty-some years. I won't be a bit surprised if that Pulitzer comes her way.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/22/books/0322books-gilead.html
Read 'em and reap.
With any luck one beneficiary of this windfall will be Otis the Dog, who looked like he he wanted a new sweater two years ago.
Ah well. Congrats to Ha Jin!
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