tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post4717600834421645847..comments2024-03-28T19:52:07.635-04:00Comments on Sweet Freedom: FFB: THE WESTERN HALL OF FAME and THE MYSTERY HALL OF FAME ed. Bill Pronzini, MH Greenberg (& Chas. Waugh), HIGH GEAR ed. Evan JonesTodd Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-37842711042499366592011-11-07T08:03:12.445-05:002011-11-07T08:03:12.445-05:00Patience, dearie. A smidgen of Stefani Germanotta ...Patience, dearie. A smidgen of Stefani Germanotta content is likely soon.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-1399641477715587222011-11-05T20:10:35.607-04:002011-11-05T20:10:35.607-04:00Need more lady gaga content!Need more lady gaga content!Alice Changhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10012542046880714130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-45477785863447914662011-11-05T20:10:13.266-04:002011-11-05T20:10:13.266-04:00Would like more Lady Gaga content!Would like more Lady Gaga content!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-11774891809919537462011-11-05T17:38:24.215-04:002011-11-05T17:38:24.215-04:00If you don't feel like translation...though do...If you don't feel like translation...though do you think there are no handy writers with a passion for any given sports? Even with my general nonchalance, I've written a scrap of sports fiction, and could easily write some more (classic women's volleyball, not so much the competitive beach variety, is certainly inspirational, if not necessarily of story ideas).Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-1969426264420290332011-11-05T16:07:28.019-04:002011-11-05T16:07:28.019-04:00Sounds like an interesting anthology, the car-raci...Sounds like an interesting anthology, the car-racing one. I've been tempted to try to compile a sports story anthology in Finnish, but I'm not sure whether there enough old stories to fill a book and enough younger writers to try theirs hands at writing sports stories.Jurihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03021010310386744591noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-25228678762477955142011-11-05T10:32:15.464-04:002011-11-05T10:32:15.464-04:00And it's remarkable that she wasn't includ...And it's remarkable that she wasn't included in the second volume...Peggy Simpson Curry being the sole woman writer there.Todd Masonhttp://www.socialistjazz.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-77705792755894198242011-11-05T08:46:54.494-04:002011-11-05T08:46:54.494-04:00Not surprised to see Dorothy M. Johnson with two s...Not surprised to see Dorothy M. Johnson with two stories in that first Western Hall of Fame. What a fine writer, one of my favorites no matter the genre. She grew up in Montana, worked for a time in New York City but returned for many happy years. Loved her memoir of her frontier childhood in Whitefish, Montana WHEN YOU AND I WERE YOUNG WHITEFISH. <br /><br />After an early failed marriage, she was proud of her self-sufficiency both from writing and jobs such as the director/manager of the Montana Press Association. I read that her epitaph on her tombstone in Whitefish is one word "Paid."Richard Moorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13770090814220403413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-29810777317628452142011-11-04T17:22:28.826-04:002011-11-04T17:22:28.826-04:00I know what you mean. I'm usually lukewarm at ...I know what you mean. I'm usually lukewarm at best to most sports, but I'm usually game for sports fiction...I like fiction.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-976546028736273252011-11-04T17:07:38.641-04:002011-11-04T17:07:38.641-04:00The title and those High Gear covers look familiar...The title and those High Gear covers look familiar so I may have to go digging in the garage as long as it doesn't snow. I've never been a racing fan, but that hasn't stopped me from adding books of this type to my sports fiction collection.Kent Morganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09834261948994921554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-17995519687403451022011-11-04T15:14:32.877-04:002011-11-04T15:14:32.877-04:00Don't know why I want to call him "Gray,&...Don't know why I want to call him "Gray," but I do.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-74687338294820855732011-11-04T13:30:57.378-04:002011-11-04T13:30:57.378-04:00Well, Clark was a vastly better writer than Grey, ...Well, Clark was a vastly better writer than Grey, and you might remember THE OX-BOW INCIDENT or THE TRACK OF THE CAT or "The Portable Phonograph" from Clark, or RIDERS OF THE PURPLE WAGE from Gray (ZANE GREY'S WESTERN MAGAZINE, aside from the Grey reprints!, was one of the best western fiction magazines we've had, a Dell digest in the latter '40s and '50s, briefly revived by Leo Margulies in the early '70s but despite early work by Pronzini and others, that version was less impressive).<br /><br />Louis L'Amour wasn't as invested in short fiction as he was in novels, but if one's going to include Grey...I suspect Grey had a stronger nostalgic hold on the voters' memories. "Luke Short," Steve Frazee, there's a whole lot of folks who were not included who might well've been...and that might've been just one reason Pronzini produced a pulp western companion volume (even Damon Knight edited a collection of pulp western fiction in the '70s).<br /><br />If you have that collection of Leonard's short fiction that was published so handsomely about seven years ago, you probably won't be disappointed.<br /><br />I'd certainly consider the Cather and, I assume you mean, the Helen Hunt Jackson novels to be westerns or at very least "novels of the west"...even though the Jackson, particularly, was a contemporary mimetic novel (iirc) when it was published...Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-62783020697479058552011-11-04T13:13:04.648-04:002011-11-04T13:13:04.648-04:00Reading about The Western Hall of Fame reminded me...Reading about The Western Hall of Fame reminded me that when I was a teenager and even later, I read westerns very enthusiastically.<br /><br />I remember Zane Grey and Walter van Tilburg Clark, though I don't remember the actual stories. Just that I read and enjoyed them. I also read O Henry - mostly in school, but do remember one particular story of his. Not a western.<br /><br />By the way where is Louis L'Amour's name? <br /><br />I have an anthology of Elmore Leonard's Western Novels which I've been meaning to read. It's here, on the TBR pile.<br /><br />I was wondering if MY ANTONIA or RAMONA might be considered western novels...What do you think Todd?Yvettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08919246184376538331noreply@blogger.com