Annie Proulx

[Nikki]

You'd better not quit writing Slash, Nancy, I'd miss your work.

[BayCityJohn]

Places, not people, inspire author to write

Top-selling author Annie Proulx has revealed a future work could be partly set in New Zealand – and she is actively researching while in the country on a book tour.

The Shipping News author, who also wrote the story that inspired the movie Brokeback Mountain, let the detail slip to a sellout audience of about 260 at The Dominion Post's Write Stuff event yesterday. The storyline could feature the issue of the sale of kauri trees, but she would not divulge any more details.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/books/4790188/Places-not-people-inspire-author-to-write#share

[fofol]

Friends!  

We are all at this campfire.  Watch the whisky!  Make sure the sticks hit the fire.  I ain't been perfect but I sure am glad to have found you all as companions... "where none had been expected" a few years ago.  You've kept me "pawing the white out of the moon" many a night on the laptop.

  HEY!  I thought that whiskey was on shares up here!?!  What gives?  Pass the bottle, take your turn, all the stars are in the sky.

                    <insert little winky smiley face here>

[Heath4Ever]

Annie Proulx gives a talk on "Bird Cloud" in Dunedin, New Zealand.  Let's hope they also post the clip of her answering questions afterwards!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReirgP5i1nY

[foreverinawe]

Here's a wonderful interview (:40+ minutes) of Annie when she visited Melbourne

http://wheelercentre.com/videos/video/annie-proulx/

   ~~~fia

[CellarDweller115]

Hiya Prouxl fans!



Just wanted to let you know that I started a new "Topic of The Week" and it is about Annie Proulx and which of her short stories do you feel would make a good movie.

If you think this is a topic that would interest you, feel free to join the conversation!

http://www.davecullen.com/forum/index.php?topic=43041.msg2109517#msg2109517

[Ellen (tellyouwhat)]

Hey AP fans, when I visited New York last week I went to the New York Public Library -- they have a display celebrating their 100 year anniversary, and it turns out they have a collection of some journals and papers of Annie Proulx's.  I took this photo with my iphone.





I was reading Bird Cloud last week, so it was doubly exciting.

[Nikki]

Elllen, the drawings/sketches? in the book look lovely -- who did those?

[Ellen (tellyouwhat)]

Elllen, the drawings/sketches? in the book look lovely -- who did those?

I'm sure they are Annie Proulx's -- I've read in interviews that she paints from time to time, to get a feel for the scenery (phrases like: "the water was the color of tea")  At the bottom of this one I think she wrote:  "into the gloom."

[BayCityJohn]

Correspondence, Early Book Drafts, Notebooks, Sketches for The Shipping News, Brokeback Mountain and Other Works Now Available to Researchers in The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature

“I am, of course, very pleased that my notes, manuscript, sketches, letters and photographs have gone to the Berg Collection of The New York Public Library,” said Ms. Proulx. “What writer would not be honored to be in the company of Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, Thoreau, Saul Bellow, Nabokov, Jack Kerouac, Virginia Woolfe, Marianne Moore, Paul Auster and W. H. Auden? To me there is an odd sense of balance that material dealing with some of the most rural landscapes in North America will reside in our major city. Aside from the pages directly related to my writing, the letters, emails, financial reports to and from agents, publishers, editors and translators may be useful to future historians and scholars examining this period in American publishing and literature. We are currently undergoing major changes in the way we regard intellectual property and literary work; some of anxieties of that metamorphosis are reflected in my archive.”

The collection includes an early notebook (1987-89) of draft ideas for Proulx’s first novel, Postcards, which won a Pen-Faulkner Award for Fiction. Her most famous novel, the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Shipping News, is represented by 3,662 pages of typescript, many with holograph revision and correction, along with screenplay adaptation pages and correspondence. A 1993 typescript bears heavy holograph revisions in purple ink. Early drafts (1994) of the novel Accordion Crimes total about 1,000 pages.

A notebook containing original manuscript ideas for Proulx’s short story “Brokeback Mountain” is included in the collection, along with 21 typescripts under a variety of working titles including “Bulldust Mountain,” “Whiskey Mountain,” and “Swill-Swallow Mountain.” Three corrected typescript drafts of Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana’s screenplay adaption of the story are included, along with legal documentation and clippings.

http://www.nypl.org/press/releases/?article_id=353

[Jeff Wrangler]

A notebook containing original manuscript ideas for Proulx’s short story “Brokeback Mountain” is included in the collection, along with 21 typescripts under a variety of working titles including “Bulldust Mountain,” “Whiskey Mountain,” and “Swill-Swallow Mountain.” Three corrected typescript drafts of Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana’s screenplay adaption of the story are included, along with legal documentation and clippings.

Oboyoboyoboyo! Wouldn't I like to see that material?!?!?

[Ellen (tellyouwhat)]

Hello, book friends,

Sad news about our good friend Dal, who posted in the book threads so often and participated in our book clubs.

He passed away today after a long illness.  A thread is dedicated to him here:

http://www.davecullen.com/forum/index.php?topic=43379.msg2138645#new

[Oregondoggie]

Annie Proulx will be appearing in Portland this Thursday.  
The literary arts society sponsors a series each year and she is the first this time around.
I am told single tickets are available at the door.  Plan to go.  Have a question or two for her.
Here's one:  Miss Proulx, The Laramie Project, a play based on the murder of Matthew Shepard, has become a formidable vehicle against Gay bashing and hatred.  Given that Brokeback Mountain changed many lives, brought resolution to long lost loves including my own, could you bless a stage version that could be performed in colleges and by local theater groups?
 
Thank you.

[BayCityJohn]

Given that Brokeback Mountain changed many lives, brought resolution to long lost loves including my own, could you bless a stage version that could be performed in colleges and by local theater groups?

I hope she says yes, but I wonder who would want to tackle the script.

[BayCityJohn]

Ok, I'm waiting...

What did she say?