Colin McEnroe Show: Good Friends Of The CMS
We're joined by two good friends of the show - Luanne Rice and Grayson Hugh.
Luanne Rice has written 28 novels, many of them bestsellers, with translations into 24 languages and five TV adaptations.
She's a bi-coastal literary force, welcome in and familiar with the power corridors of New York publishing and the L.A. entertainment industry.
She's also, as I can attest, in many ways still the girl who grew up in New Britain and spent summers in Old Lyme - the daughter of a man who sold typewriters. Luanne's fiction usually has a strong Connecticut component, which is one reason I like to have her on as a guest. The other reason is that she's kind of family. She was one of the early supporters of this show and has been a frequent guest. And in just the way I like having the listeners grow familiar and comfortable with panelists on The Nose, I like the idea that you'll come to know some our regulars Like Luanne and musician Grayson Hugh, who's also back with us today.
Read an excerpt from The Silver Boat.
Hear Grayson Hugh's "I'll See You On The Radio"
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E-mail from Phil
When Luanne was talking about writing her first novel in a typing studio in New York my thoughts went immediately to the story of the writing of one of the most significant novels of the English language. A young graduate student in English Literature lived in a cramped graduate student apartment with his wife and three young daughters on the UC Berkley campus. He spent his evenings at the kitchen table trying to write his first novel but this was impossible due to the distractions of his daughters. He gave up and started writing long-hand at a table in the main library but it was very slow going. One evening as he left the library he heard a strange noise coming from a basement window. Curious, he went back into the library and walked down the stairs to the basement and discovered the source of the noise: A room full of IBM Selectric typewriters. He had seen Selectrics but never used one. A sign on the wall said: “10 cents for thirty minutes.” The next night he came back with a sock fill of dimes and a ream of paper and went to work. Nine nights later he finished the manuscript. The man was Ray Bradbury and the novel was Fahrenheit 451.
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