I actually got a phone call from Australia last night - and I'm old enough to find that technologically marvelous and cool - for quotes for this story:
American Splendour's Harvey Pekar dies
Thea Dikeos reported this story on Wednesday, July 14, 2010
ABC News' PM
http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2010/s2953704.htm
http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/news/audio/pm/201007/20100714-pm11-splendour.mp3
I'm going to keep mulling over that spontaneous Steinbeck comparison as I think there's something to it. When I mentioned Hemingway and Steinbeck, I initially meant Pekar was a quintessentially American writer, but I think he might have some real thematic links to Steinbeck.
A great trans-Atlantic-Pacific global interview!
ReplyDeleteThanks Richard. I think I sound foolish, but that's par for the course.
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