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Rebroadcast: William Kittredge
William Kittredge is something of a western writing icon. He's written 50 stories, more than 100 essays, two dozen books and has some movie credits as well, including co-authoring the screenplay for "A River Runs Through It." His 1987 collection of essays has been descibed as having "mapped the emotional terrain of the modern west." You can read Emily's original introduction to Kittredge on our blog here.
Have you read any of William Kittridge's work? What sticks with you? Are you from southeastern Oregon? How did his writing affect you?
Tagged as: books · northwest passages · west · william kittredge
Photo credit: Raymond Meeks
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As someone who spent his childhood in Wallowa County during the 60s, I could relate, to a certain extent, but his essays miss the zenophobia, racism and darker side of the rural eastern part of our state, prefering a more romantic, and somewhat nostaligic vision. I prefered the rougher-edged short stories from "We Are Not In This Together" I discoverd as a college student in the mid 80. I look forward to reading his upcoming novel.
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For some reason these rebroadcasts remind me of Barbra Streisand singing "Second Hand Rose". We're all Second Hand Roses for today.
60 years ago this was not even possible.
Used sounds.
Second hand sounds.
Like ear memories. Like a photograph for the ears, to be saved and listened to again later. Recordings are ear albums. Sound savings accounts.
EaReminiscences. Cool.
And there is nothing better than mouth music. Human voices.
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Tom, I love the idea of ear memories!
Emily
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Me too, Emily.
I was feeling whiney about radio reruns like summer TV reruns and I started looking for ways to reframe it to something beautiful, especially because the Kittredge show was so good. And that brought on that brainstorm session on sounds.
I don't know if you are old enough to have heard Streisand sing Second Hand Rose, but she made it beautiful and she is worth the listen.
You TOL and OPB guys are welcome to use that idea of "ear memories" for rebroadcasts in any way you want to. It can be my non-monetary contribution to the public radio efforts.
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Ear-reveries keeps picking at my mind too.
EaReminiscences is clunky somehow, no poetry to it.
Ear-Reveries borders on sounding like irreverent but has a certain poetry to it. Like being lost in that eternal moment when you lose sense of time and are only aware of what is sounding in that moment.
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I agree with what he said about corporate agriculture. Efficient Corporate farms are good for business but bad for families and people in general.
Here is a quote that I think also applies to corporations:
"Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship." -- Harry S Truman
Even the largest farms are currently under the whims of Corps like Monsanto and the other GMO plant-food engineers. Like a return to feudalism and or the tenant farming of the south after the un-civil war..
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As the Head Teacher in Adel from 1977-1982, I thoroughly enjoyed "Hole in the Sky", and some of the characters and folks Bill wrote about were still alive. It was a time that will always stay with me-- the Warner Valley is an incredible place. The old levy failed one wet Spring, and the valley flooded once again. It took several months to dry the place out, and the mosquitoes were especially bad!!!
Mark McConnell
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