I've been on a bit of an obsessive Andre Dubus jag the past week. I read his essay collection Broken Vessels, reread his Selected Stories, and found a bunch of essays about his work and life. Today I discovered that a documentary film was made in 2007 about his life. It doesn't seem to be available on DVD yet, but I found this clip, which focuses on the accident that crippled him ["cripple" is the word he used for his condition], and his recovery. I wish there was more footage available, especially pertaining to his writing life, but for now at least, it's all I can find.


From "The Times Were Never So Bad" from Edward Delaney on Vimeo.

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eReading is here to stay, and Maud's okay with that.  Me too, especially after reading The Gift and watching the changes the music industry is going through. The nimble will survive, the behemoths will struggle. The future is what we make it, and I think we're on the cusp of an exciting evolution in the ways writers reach audiences.

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Read it and weep
The economic news couldn't be worse for the book industry.
Now insiders are asking how literature will survive. [Salon.com]

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This Is Where We Live from 4th Estate on Vimeo.