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Archive for December, 2002Author profileDecember 1st, 2002 D.K. Holm is a long-time movie reviewer based in Portland, Ore. who has published five books: two on Robert Crumb, the cartoonist; two on Quentin Tarantino, the film director; and one on an aspect of film noir called film soleil. He has written two columns for Black Lamb: Big Screen and Little Screen.
Posted by: The Editors Author profileDecember 1st, 2002 Joel Hess is an amateur logophile and dilettante writer currently living in Portland, Ore. He grew up in a working-class family in the Philadelphia suburbs; went to school at Washington University in St. Louis, majoring in Chinese, including one year on a year-abroad program in Singapore; returned to Philadelphia; and made his home in New York for a decade before deciding to move to the west coast. His various residences, along with extensive travel to forty-four states and twenty-five foreign countries over the course of his lifetime, and formal study of a dozen or so foreign languages to various extents, have supplemented his insatiable thirst for knowledge about the world’s languages to produce a solid foundation for writing about language and linguistics. His other major interest is in music, in which he has a degree (B.Mus. in music history) from Temple University. As a singer and violinist, he has performed with dozens of ensembles on three continents. He lives alone, alas, but if you know of any available gentlemen, he would be glad of an introduction. His Black Lamb column is called Glossolalia.
Posted by: The Editors Author profileDecember 1st, 2002 Elizabeth Hart has never lived without hope, but it has been a struggle to keep up with life’s passages. She’s recently adopted a comfortable middle-of-the-road posture, and so far it’s working. Not that she hasn't done and seen it all — but that was another century. “Only the mediocre are really good at what they do,” said Somerset Maughan. It’s her mantra. All in all, the world is great, motherhood’s rewarding, and she has no trouble finding a passionate attraction to artistic endeavors, the miracles of nature, and life’s experiences. Her Black Lamb column is called The Road Taken.
Posted by: The Editors Author profileDecember 1st, 2002 Ed Goldberg was born in The Bronx in 1943. After dropping out of college in 1962, he attempted to do stand-up comedy, unsuccessfully. He wrote for a few of the underground papers in New York. After moving to Washington, D.C. in 1973, he became a technical writer and wrote features and reviews for a monthly arts and entertainment paper. In 1991, he moved to Portland, Ore. and finished Served Cold, winner of the 1995 Shamus Award for best original paperback fiction. His third novel, True Crime, (as “Alan Gold”) was published in February 2005. True Faith was published in January 2007. He is currently working on a new book. His Black Lamb column is called The Bronx Zoo.
Posted by: The Editors Author profileDecember 1st, 2002 Randall Giles is a composer and music editor and educator who works for the Episcopal Church in India. His Black Lamb column is called Letter from Madras.
Posted by: The Editors Author profileDecember 1st, 2002 Michele Gendelman is a comedy writer who lives in Los Angeles and has written for screens both big and small, including such series as Newhart, Ghost Stories, and Facts of Life. She also writes for animated series for PBS and Cartoon Network and teaches screenwriting at Los Angeles City College. Her first book, What the Other Mothers Know, was published in the spring of 2007 by HarperCollins. She is married to screen- and television writer Andy Guerdat. Her Black Lamb column is called Mulholland Jive.
Posted by: The Editors Author profileDecember 1st, 2002 Cate Garrison began her working life as a translator and interpreter in Brussels, Belgium, followed by fifteen years as a college professor of French, education, and English as a Foreign Language in the north of England, where she also pursued her avocation as an actor. After immigrating to the U.S. in 1987, she worked for several years as theater critic for Willamette Week in Portland, Ore.; she still enjoys rereading the accumulated hate mail. Thanks to her hard-working husband, who recently, briefly retired, she has been able to indulge herself mostly in “writing for pleasure;” a recent financial disaster (read all about it at lifeafterrhodes.blogspot.com) has meant that, not only has her spouse returned to work, but Cate herself has levered herself up from her derrière and begun to try to trade words for money. She has recently completed not one but two novels that were languishing in the attic and is currently biting her nails in hopes that some agent out there will love them. She appears in two columns in Black Lamb: Small Corner and The JJ Chronicles.
Posted by: The Editors Author profileDecember 1st, 2002 Bud Gardner was born in 1943 and raised in arid, rural, eastern Washington state. In 1961 he went to the wet, west side of the state for college at U Dub in Seattle, where he earned his BA in English comp and political science, and a law degree. After seven years of criminal defense work in Seattle, and a divorce, he took a “vacation” from the law, bummed around in Mexico, managed a Pioneer Square bar, worked for a while as a private eye, did construction carpentry and some field surveying, and, observing that most folks work too hard for miserable pay, reasonably concluded that it might be appropriate to reconsider the legal profession, in a revised context. Returning to eastern Washington in 1980, he remarried, and he has maintained a general law practice in Okanogan since. He and his wife Connie enjoy their quiet home life in a (remodeled) hundred-year-old farm house surrounded by orchards. Bud likes to fly fish, raises prize-winning dahlias, and dabbles in country music and writing. His Black Lamb column is called Country Lawyer.
Posted by: The Editors Author profileDecember 1st, 2002 Rod Ferrandino is an unpaid professional husband and father. He is constantly hectored, pestered, and bossed around by his spouse, daughter, and pets, and loves every minute of it. He lives outside of Lexington, Va., in the Shenandoah Valley, in a shabbily elegant antebellum plantation house surrounded by 300 acres (not his) full of bovine spot-fertilizers. His Black Lamb column is called Cracked Windshield.
Posted by: The Editors Author profileDecember 1st, 2002 Emily Emerson, born and raised in Texas, is a freelance writer and author of several guidebooks to France. She has lived in that country since 1979 and makes her home in the Loire valley. Her Black Lamb column is called En Campagne.
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