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NEW: BMB reviews Olaf Stapledon VVoice (also reveals her eBay addiction-- quilts)
Excellent 15min interview and 5min reading and pic, another pic
Official homepage
Amazon 'interview', author page
Bibliofind 2ndhand copies
1944: born, Charleston South Carolina (mother Mildred McCrary Corbin, father 'Mack', sister Patricia, brother Charles, 'medium-rich')
1952? first television reveals Southerners as 'hicks'
1957: father killed in auto accident
1957-61? right-wing, president of HS student body, skipped junior year, edited yearbook
1960? passenger in car that kills black man lying in road
1961? senior trip to NYC
1962? Duke University, freshman and sophomore years (hypnotism, logic)
1964?-71? married MIT grad, one year in Boston
1967: Pomona College, B.A., magna cum laude, English
1967: Stegner Fellowship to Stanford (Esalen experiments)
1971: Stanford University, M.A. English, 1971.
1972? commune in Vermont; arrested at antiwar demo; NYC, women's collective 'Sagaris', abandons politics
1973-78? relationship with R., 'a woman lover'
1979-80: Lecturer in Creative Writing, George Washington U
1982-Present: Connecticut College, Professor of English
1982-83: Creative Writing Fellowship, S Carolina Arts Commission
1982-1989: Bennington College Summer Writing Workshops
1988: NEA Fiction Fellowship
1991: Lamda Award; Ferro-Grumley Award; Southern Book Award nominee
1993-4: Guggenheim Fellow
Main sources: Vita and "Redneck Way of Knowledge"
I expect to write individual reviews eventually, but for starters let me say BMB is the first literary truth-teller for the 60s generation, and all her books are invaluable for fans of that decade.
She seems to live life at full throttle in a way that reminds me somewhat of the B-52s' music, but with a literary/ intellectual/ spiritual dimension as well.
Daughters Inc.
Macmillan; reprinted in Dutch and German editions, 1978.
Bibliofind usually has copies at $30-$40
Alfred A. Knopf; Penguin Books, 1983. Vintage Contemporary, 1995
Some chapters originally published as:
"South Carolina," [1960 auto accident]
"Aunt Thelma and the Rockettes," [autobio]
"What Is This Thing Called?" [autobio]
"The Redneck Way of Knowledge," [stock car races]
? "Zen and the Art of Partying," Village Voice, Sept 1979.
"John Paul's Passion Play," [Pope in NYC]
"One Thousand Words About a Picture," [Hurricane David]
"Ambush," [Klan vs Communists]
? "Born Repeatedly," essay, Village Voice, May 1982.
Amazon page includes many raves
Alfred A. Knopf; Vintage softcover and British, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, and German editions.
Amazon page mostly raves
Amazon page with many raves
"Shannon Encountering," novel excerpt, American Review #25, 1976.
"South Carolina," Village Voice, Feb 1978.
"Aunt Thelma and the Rockettes," Village Voice, April 1978 [IMDb for 'Crossed Swords'].
"What Is This Thing Called?" Village Voice, June 1979.
"The Redneck Way of Knowledge," Village Voice lead story, July 1979.
"Zen and the Art of Partying," Village Voice, Sept 1979.
"John Paul's Passion Play," Village Voice lead story, Oct 1979.
"One Thousand Words About a Picture," Village Voice, Jan 1980
"Ambush," Village Voice, 1981.
"Born Repeatedly," essay, Village Voice, May 1982.
"Carla Wallenda: Standing on the Brink of Eternity," profile, Vanity Fair, Oct 1984.
"Sam Shepard, The Natural," profile, American Film, Oct 1984.
"Key West," Vogue, April 1985.
"I Keep Moving,", essay, Esquire, April 1985.
"My First Script," fiction, American Film, July 1985, published under pseudonym Ellie Burns).
"A Case for Rolfing," essay, New Age, Feb 1986.
"Audio Books: The Nouvelle Cuisine of Storytelling," Village Voice, July 1986.
"The Dream of Peru," essay, New Age, Nov 1986.
"Tarzan and Jane," short story, VLS (Voice Literary Supplement), 1987.
"My Town," short story, VLS, 1987.
"The Black Hand Girl," short story, VLS, 1988.
"Ahead of the Pack," profile of River Phoenix, Premiere, April 1988.
"Partial Amnesia," short story, Special Report, 1989.
"William Meredith: A Partial Account," Connecticut's Finest, Summer 1989.
"The Way It Should Be Remed," essay, The New York Times Magazine, Nov 19, 1989.
"Iceland," essay, Vogue, Nov 1990.
"The Bad Mother," essay, VLS, May 1991.
"Quien es mas macho?" essay, VLS, Oct 1991.
"My Affair with Dan Quayle," VLS, August, 1992.
"Goldilocks: The Hair-Raising Sequel," VLS, April 1993.
"Why Did Susan Smith Kill Her Kids?," Village Voice, July 1995.
"Hillary, The Stealth Feminist," Ms. Magazine, Sept/Oct 1995.
movie review with bio blurb, bk review, essay
BMB reviews Vagina Monologues [VVoice]
Screenplays: (no IMDb entry)
Made Up Women, Cinderella Productions, 1981.
Folly Beach, Columbia Pictures, 1986.
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