>>> I JUST COMPLETED CORRECTING THE FORMATTING OF WALKING ON GLASS: A MEMOIR OF THE LATER DAYS OF TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Seen below, with some EDITS to the front and back material. But first, the PROFESSIONAL REVIEWS of my memoir, garnered before Alyson Books CANCELLED MY CONTRACT, but I soon learned they NEVER MEANT TO PUBLISH IT, as two and a half months after I delivered final edits for galleys, they returned the photos and memorabilia I had sent them ALL STILL SEALED!!!
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Artist: Mark Beard. Mark is also a character in my memoir, this blog -- and double all that in real life.
BULLY FOR HIM!!!
REVIEWS:
John Lahr, The New Yorker:
"I wasn't intending to read every word of your memoir; but it says something about how well you wrote it, that I did . . . you've found a very crisp and compelling style. And you come through vividly in it."
Thomas Keith, Editor of Tennessee Williams' books for New Directions Publishing:
"Scott has done a beautiful job with his memoir. What makes it stand out from previous memoirs about Williams is its integrity, and the depth to which Scott reveals his own situation, mental health problems, fears, and hopes.
"Because of that integrity, the day-to-day descriptions of life with Williams and Scott's take on the tangle of problems Williams faced near the end of his life are that much more insightful. I also happen to like Scott's ability to describe a person or set a scene--even his thread of commentary on weather, light, and seasons informs us about the sensitivities of the man telling this story."
Dr. Kenneth Holditch, Williams scholar and Professor Emeritus at the University of New Orleans:
"Having finished your manuscript, I am confirmed in my initial judgment that this is a very fine work indeed. Tennessee really comes alive in your narrative, as do other personages, a few of whom I knew.
"Let me be truthful and say that I put off reading your work because I have read so many–both published and in manuscript–that were handed to me and been much too often disappointed in what I read. That was not the case with your book. I found it spell-binding and raced on through it at the expense of my chores."
Dr. Larry Myers: Playwright/Associate Professor, St John's University/Williams Friend & Scholar:
"Your book much seems channeled from some astral plane or higher consciousness. When I read it, HE IS HERE!"
>>> HERE IS ONE THING I ADDED TO END MATTER:
It was only in 2009, after I was taken off Lithium Carbonate which Mom had forced me to be on for 31 years, that I began to put together the meaning of the small pastel swastikas on our dinner plates and the daily beatings -- as well as Mom's prime connection to three Catholic Popes, planning and passing messages to some of the highest leaders in the Republican Party and Fox News. This story is too big to include here, and is told in my blogs: http://scottkenan.blogspot.com and http://theweathercontinues.blogspot.mx, written in Mexico where I now live in Political Exile from the United States.
>>> MY MEMOIR CAN BE READ HERE FOR FREE: http://laterdaysoftennesseewilliams.blogspot.mx/
Scott
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