“I think a writer who leaves his roots leaves any hope of writing importantly”—John Gardner
Those so favored by the Good Lord as to be within listening distance of Batavia, NY, on Saturday, October 24, at 8 pm, might want to drop by the Pokadot, the late novelist John Gardner’s favorite diner, for our 13th annual evening of readings from Gardner’s many works. I recommend the beef on weck, the pepper and eggs, Grendel, and Mickelsson’s Ghosts.
In the unsolicited advice department, I urge other towns to celebrate, in their own ways, their own writers. Maybe Peters can exercise his texting finger to organize an Octave Thanet Day across the river in Davenport, Iowa?
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Dang. I’ll be back in B-town on the 28th and 29th, 4 days too late for the Gardner shindig.
Thankfully, the Beef-on-Weck will still be there, even if I can’t partake of Pontillo’s Pizza anymore.
By the way, when does Elba hold the Bill Kaufmann celebration? Is that going to be in conjunction with the Onion fest?
A worthy cause for a man who, for good reason, drank himself into sweet oblivion.
I’ll get on the Thanet day. Thounds like I’m lithping.
Tom, every day is Bill Kauffman Day.
JP, maybe you can enlist the Quad Cities chapter of the Daughters of Bilitis in celebrating Sister Octave?
It sounds like a great night. I wish I could be there.
I had my first beef on weck last weekend in Buffalo. As an Ohioan (from Cincinnati) I had no prior knowledge of this mysterious thing called weck. Being in exile in DC, I am always hankering for a home town three-way.