http://www.dystel.com/blog/2013/11/from-sea-to-shining-sea/ Mon, 26 Jun 2017 15:15:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.15 http://www.dystel.com/blog/2013/11/from-sea-to-shining-sea/comment-page-1/#comment-36837 Tue, 05 Nov 2013 22:37:48 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=9439#comment-36837 My litmap is an admixture of both books and movies, i.e., the upper Midwest may be home to the Great Lakes, which is about 40 miles east of Lake Wobegon, and I live in the part of California John Steinbeck wrote about in Cannery Row, although most of the stuff he mentioned has long been replaced by a bunch of tacky tourist traps for people who are only vaguely aware of who he was. And yes, the area still looks very much like it did in Play Misty For Me… Naturally, I take all my impressions of NYC from movies like The Sentinel and Val Lewton’s The Seventh Victim, where the Catholic Church ominously guards the doorway to hell in a picturesque old house within sight of the World Trade Center (which is still standing, apparently) and sinister devil worshipers lurk in a noir Greenwich Village where Simon & Garfunckel won’t turn up for another quarter century. (Not to mention all those Woody Allen flicks set in every time frame imaginable) And can anyone tell me why the hell Dorothy would want to go back to a dump like Kansas (then or now) from a nice place like Oz? What’s up with that girl? And I take all my book buzz from PW and John Stewart, for the most part…

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