The young Bob Dylan was a poet, an inspired one.
The prophet of the counterculture, six years older than me. In l967 I was twenty years old and in my last year of Harvard, studying poetry composition with Robert Lowell, who had inherited the mantle of greatest living poet in the great English tradition after the death of Robert Frost. I had studied ancient Greek …Read More
DVW is live!
My son Andre, the co-founder of DVW, and his team at Digital Media Associates, in Park City, Utah, have done a magnificent job of redesigning the site, which was hacked and we haven’t been able to put up anything on it since February. This is its third iteration, and the most beautiful and functional one …Read More
video of “the great estates of northern westchester
and their contribution to conservation, the talk I gave at the Waccabuc Country Club in South Salem, New York. http://www.youtube.com/embed/u0g0UlkBFFQ?rel=0&autoplay=1
the text is posted as Dispatch #82
writer’s conference in November
I’ll be doing workshops and lectures at the Abroad Writers’ Conference, along with three Pulitzer Prize winners, from Nov. 21-8 at Hever Castle, Kent, where Ann Boleyn grew up. See the Abroad Writers’ Conference Facebook page for details, including an interview with me by Nancy Gerbault, who organized the conference. It promises to be a …Read More
Thank God there are still some readers out there
I received this email from Graeme Wood
Mr. Shoumatoff,
I read Legends of the American Desert a few years ago and liked it very much. One anecdote stuck in my memory, the one on page 66 about Pablo Valencia’s near-death-by-thirst. But I read the source essay by Wm. J. McGee, “Desert Thirst as Disease,” and found that one of the …Read More
DVW has its own publishing house and here is its first offering
January 12, 2012 : Ohla amigos, DispatchesFromTheVanishingWorld.com has just launched its own print-on-demand, Kindle- and Ipad-downloadable publishing house, Last Look Books, with a new edition of my first book, retitled Postcards From Florida. With your support we hope to have twenty more titles out by the end of the year. Some of them will be …Read More
graduation speech at Kells Academy
Here’s a speech I gave at the graduation of the sixth and eleventh grades of Kells Academy in Montreal on June 3 :
I am honored to have been asked to address this year’s graduating class at Kell’s. We are a recent family at the school. Oliver, who is graduating, and his brother Zachary, who will …Read More