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A Regular Irregular Blog: Paralyzed from the Neck Down
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A Regular Irregular Blog. Which Ill write frequently and which (hopefully) you will read frequently. Tuesday, May 19, 2015. Paralyzed from the Neck Down. I wrote this op-ed for the Wall Street Journal. Of Saturday, April 10th, 2015. They published it with very light edits. Here it is in the original form. Anthony Weller is the author of seven books (novels, history, travel). Until his illness, he was internationally known as a jazz and classical guitarist. Visit www.anthonyweller.com. I’ve been imm...
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A Regular Irregular Blog: December 2010
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A Regular Irregular Blog. Which Ill write frequently and which (hopefully) you will read frequently. Tuesday, December 7, 2010. An American Master in Rome. Découpage—cutting out diverse paper images and gluing them as a collage onto another form, likely glass—is usually seen as an amateur craft, done with paste and scissors on kitchen tables. The results are rarely art, and often kitsch. The idea, as she puts it, is to form a plural design that also tells a complete story. Aroused the ire of American law...
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A Regular Irregular Blog: January 2012
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A Regular Irregular Blog. Which Ill write frequently and which (hopefully) you will read frequently. Sunday, January 8, 2012. Most of us discover by our twenties that others’ professions are not remotely as we imagine. Film actors, no matter how successful, spend a lot of time waiting around. Musicians need to practice constantly. Lawyers learn to look fascinated while hearing about other people’s problems. There are also the problems of living with us. Even in a digital age it’s a profession t...When I ...
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A Regular Irregular Blog: February 2012
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A Regular Irregular Blog. Which Ill write frequently and which (hopefully) you will read frequently. Thursday, February 9, 2012. Why Am I Doing This? Don’t worry, I’m not turning philosophical. (If I were, my title would be Why Bother? I mean, specifically, why clutter this blog space with so much old work, rather than fresh mutterings? These days it’s hard not to feel nostalgia for the magazine world in which I flourished (loose sense of the word) for two decades. The economic model of readers...Magazin...
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A Regular Irregular Blog: December 2006
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A Regular Irregular Blog. Which Ill write frequently and which (hopefully) you will read frequently. Monday, December 18, 2006. On "First into Nagasaki". 2006 INTERVIEW WITH ANTHONY WELLER about FIRST INTO NAGASAKI: The Censored Eyewitness Dispatches on Post-Atomic Japan and Its Prisoners of War. By George Weller / edited and with an essay by Anthony Weller / foreword by Walter Cronkite. Q: And he wrote this entire book in six weeks? He must never have slept. And, until recently, were believed lost.
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A Regular Irregular Blog: February 2015
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A Regular Irregular Blog. Which Ill write frequently and which (hopefully) you will read frequently. Friday, February 27, 2015. Guest Blog #3: Adam's Task (by Emily Millikan). Emily Millikan is a thoughtful and tremendously talented young writer from whom I expect great things: stories, essays, novels. Here she is praising Vicki Hearne (1946 – 2001), a fine writer I'm embarrassed to say I'd never even heard of. What's so special about C.S. Lewis's novel Till We Have Faces. What about The Lord of the Rings.
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A Regular Irregular Blog: December 2005
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A Regular Irregular Blog. Which Ill write frequently and which (hopefully) you will read frequently. Monday, December 5, 2005. Every morning I create the world anew:. When I die, the world dies with me. You who carry the gentle illusion that it is you. Who freshen the world each day, not I,. Know that you too are doomed to obliterate. All you see and love. This is the only task handed on,. And carries no inherited virtue, for man’s life is vanishing thought. Successfully wiping the world clean.
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Anthony Weller
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His first literary love was poetry and he was fortunate enough, at age nineteen, to fall under the tutelage of a great poet, Peyton Houston. His poems have appeared in. Yankee, The Saturday Evening Post, Chelys, Pendulum, Light, Erizu, Infinity Three,. National Geographic Traveler, The Paris Review, Forbes, GEO, The New York Times Magazine, G.Q., Conde-Nast Traveler, Gourmet, Harpers, Playboy, Vogue, Architectural Digest, Smithsonian, Pan, Delta-Sky, Esquire, Merian, Guitar Review, New York, Trav...And m...
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A Regular Irregular Blog: “My Notorious Life"
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A Regular Irregular Blog. Which Ill write frequently and which (hopefully) you will read frequently. Saturday, October 26, 2013. 8220;My Notorious Life". The best aspect of writing a blog is that nobody can shut you up. (The worst aspect of writing a blog is that nobody can shut you up.). Contrariwise, when writing a novel there’s far more static, more white noise: or is that the loudness of blank pages waiting to be filled? And one month ago Kate published her second novel, “My Notorious Life....8220;MY...
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