Jacke Wilson

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narrative

March 27, 2022

The History of Literature #367 – The Beatles and the Power of Narrative | Tolstoy on Twitter

Jacke talks to Mike Palindrome about his work on the “Tolstoy Together” project sponsored by Yiyun Li and A Public Space, along with some other thoughts about reading great books on Twitter. THEN Jacke responds to the incredible Peter Jackson film Get Back, with some thoughts about the stories we tell about the Beatles and Continue reading

Arts, Authors, books, Fiction, history of literature

A Public Space, Get Back, Leo Tolstoy, Literature, narrative, Peter Jackson, the Beatles, Yiyun Li
February 24, 2015

Gore Vidal’s Great Orson Welles Story

I’ve read a lot of Orson Welles stories, but somehow I missed many of the gems in this fantastic NYRB essay by Gore Vidal. Here’s one of my favorites, where Vidal and Welles are analyzing “like a pair of Talmudic scholars” a draft of Rudy Vallée’s memoirs, which Vidal has managed to get his hands on: As professional storytellers, Continue reading

Authors, Fiction, Writing

biography, gore vidal, lunch, narrative, New York Review of Books, Orson Welles, rudy vallee, Storytelling