Archives for November 3, 2015

By the time most of you read these words, I’ll be somewhere between New York and Lubbock, Texas, where I’m lecturing on “The Future of Theater” at Texas Tech University and paying a visit to the Buddy Holly Center, which is located on—get this—Crickets Avenue.

Getting to Lubbock from New York requires that you go somewhere else first, so I’ll be spending two and a half hours en route cooling my heels in the Dallas airport. I’m bringing with me a copy of George, the first volume of Emlyn Williams’ biography, which I trust will keep me happily occupied.

I’m speaking under the auspices of Texas Tech’s Institute for the Study of Western Civilization, and should you happen to be in or near Lubbock, the public is invited to attend. The show starts at 5:30 on Wednesday and admission is free.

For more information, go here.

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Buddy Holly and the Crickets perform “That’ll Be the Day” on The Ed Sullivan Show on December 1, 1957:

From 2005:

I’ve become Mr. Bernstein in Citizen Kane, a middle-aged man with a head full of fireflies, perfectly remembered pinpoints of laughter and sorrow, ecstasy and humiliation, that crowd my consciousness without warning. Would that I also had a few flashes of life-changing insight tucked into my album of mental snapshots, but I guess that’s not how memory works….

Read the whole thing here.

“Once outside the magic circle the writers became their lonely selves, pondering on poems, observing their fellow men ruthlessly, putting people they knew into novels; no wonder they were without friends.”

Barbara Pym, Jane and Prudence