One of my favorite Dylan performances — that’s him on piano, too . . .
I wrote a short story inspired by this song:
Available in this collection — Fourteen Western Stories.
SPANISH IS THE LOVING TONGUE
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Category Archives: Westerns
A WESTERN MOVIE STILL FOR TODAY
Via Laura Wagner . . .
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IN THE DAYS OF ’49
I’m not getting nostalgic or anything, but the days of ’49 — damn . . . those days . . .
Oh, my goodness.
BOOK NEWS
The paperback edition of my book Fourteen Western Stories is not selling very well, so I’ve raised the price to $10.99, because I’d rather have it not sell at a relatively high price than not sell at a bargain price. Amazon, however, is discounting the new price by 20%, to $8.79, which is only $1.80 more than the old price. And so it goes.
The Kindle edition of the book continues to sell well at $2.99. On Sunday and Monday, May 26th and 27th, I’ll be offering it at a special Memorial Day price — nothing! That’s right, for two days it will be downloadable for free! You can read it on a Kindle, of course, but also on Amazon’s free Kindle reading apps, which work on almost all computers and portable devices.
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BEAR HUG
My fried Paul Pearson informs me that this was taken in Canada during the River Of No Return shoot.
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A COMIC BOOK COVER FOR TODAY
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A CLASSIC WESTERN
. . . in the tradition of John Ford.
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A WESTERN STORY
A young cowboy on the run and a young woman terribly wronged, bent on a mission of revenge, find that they need each other for something more than vengeance — one of the tales in Fourteen Western Stories, available on Amazon for the Kindle and for free Kindle reading apps, which work on almost all computers and portable devices. Free to borrow for Kindle owners enrolled in Amazon Prime.
Also available in a thrilling paperback edition:
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A COMIC BOOK PANEL FOR TODAY
A WESTERN STORY
A14 year-old girl offers to lead a detail of troopers to the hide-out of a terrifying Apache war chief, but only if she’s given full command of the expedition — one of the tales in Fourteen Western Stories, available on Amazon for the Kindle and for free Kindle reading apps, which work on almost all computers and portable devices. Free to borrow for Kindle owners enrolled in Amazon Prime.
Also available in an elegant paperback edition:
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A WESTERN STORY
A drummer, selling books on the fringes of civilization, stumbles upon a cabin in a fierce snowstorm, occupied by a lone woman with insatiable appetites — one of the tales in Fourteen Western Stories, available on Amazon for the Kindle and for free Kindle reading apps, which work on almost all computers and portable devices. Free to borrow for Kindle owners enrolled in Amazon Prime.
Also available in a toasty-warm paperback edition:
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A GREAT NEW REVIEW
Very Enjoyable Reading
Who says the short story is dead? I gave this collection of fourteen stories a try, although I hadn’t read any “western” fiction since Lonesome Dove. Mr. Fonvielle does the genre proud with realism, stark situations and conflict, and endings that often are not what you’d expect. His characters often speak in crisp Victorian language that reminded me of several John Wayne movies. In fact, I think the dialogue is my favorite part of the collection. But don’t misunderstand: he depicts frontier living with its lawlessness, whores, brutality, saloons, scalpings, and the rest, so it’s not for the fainthearted. The stories vary in length from just 2-3 pages up to 20-30. I was disappointed when I got to the end. Give it a look.
An Amazon customer review which you can see here.
DJANGO UNCHAINED
Probably the best thing you can say about Django Unchained is that it’s almost impossible to say anything about it at all. It’s an utterly incoherent work of art, aesthetically, conceptually, emotionally.
What’s odd about it is that it has a kind of cellular structure — it’s component parts work on their own terms while you’re experiencing them. One cell sparks interesting intellectual thoughts about the place of slavery in American history. Another cell arouses the sort of emotions we associate with intense and unapologetic melodrama. Yet another cell connects us with the exhilaration of a brilliant goof on generic clichés.
The only thing I can think of to compare it with is a Joseph Cornell box, whose juxtaposition of discrete, disjointed sections somehow adds up to an aesthetic whole.
Is it important? Is it profound? Is it ultimately satisfying or meaningful? I really don’t know. All I can say is that it’s fascinating, that it’s of its time, that it took a lot of courage and eccentric genius to create. Compared to the sort of rote junk Hollywood is programmed to turn out these days, it’s a miraculous anomaly.
TABLETOP
. . . Gueune Hall, Gruene, Texas — the oldest dance hall in The Lone Star State.
A lot of beer sloshed onto this table, a lot of moments memorialized with a knife blade over the years.
[Photo by Hilmar Blumberg]
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A WESTERN STORY
An Irish lieutenant on a cavalry post in Kansas runs up against the unspoken rules of frontier army life — one of the tales in Fourteen Western Stories, available on Amazon for the Kindle and for free Kindle reading apps, which work on almost all computers and portable devices. Free to borrow for Kindle owners enrolled in Amazon Prime.
Also available in an elegant paperback edition:
