reading Williams

Larry Miller · 19 Dec 2012, 22:49 · from 2012-December.txt.gz

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From: decanus1284 at gmail.com (Larry Miller)
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 17:49:53 -0500
Subject: (urth) reading Williams
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A friend of mine and I have discussed doing a video documentary about Wolfe
but it would need interviews with him to work and Ive never been able to
find the right channels to go about doing it.

On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Marc Aramini <marcaramini at yahoo.com>wrote:

> I have about a a decade and a half worth of correspondence with Wolfe but
> would not feel comfortable taking on a task like that. Biography doesn't
> interest me as a writer, and much of the last eight years communication has
> been personal in nature, less about his art.  He strikes me as approachable
> but private.
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Dec 17, 2012, at 10:02 AM, Gwern Branwen <gwern0 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Stephen Case <scase1 at nd.edu> wrote:
> >> Also: I'm disappointed the thread a couple weeks ago about the
> potentiality
> >> of a Wolfe biography never went anywhere. Surely someone has something
> more
> >> to say about this than simply how much we'd all love one.
> >
> > A biography is hard work: who will fund the years of work for a really
> > good one? How would one convince Wolfe to cooperate and that one isn't
> > a flake?
> >
> > Anyone who needs some emails on a mailing list to motivate them
> > probably shouldn't be doing it in the first place.
> >
> > --
> > gwern
> > http://www.gwern.net
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