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  • From: Jake Greene <jakegreene AT gmail.com>
  • To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] book suggestions?
  • Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 10:03:38 -0400

I was a creative writing student at UNCW where I had the pleasure of
getting to know Clyde pretty well. He's generally as funny as it
seems like he'd be.

One of Clyde's occasional bluegrass compatriots and fellow UNCW
professor is Philip Gerard. Phil's written a novel set around the
1898 Wilmington race riot, a little known but extremely important part
of North Carolina's history, called Cape Fear Rising. It'd probably
suit your needs precisely.

Jake

On 7/3/05, Bob Stepno <bstepno AT mindspring.com> wrote:
> The fall before I moved to Chapel Hill I was lucky enough to catch
> Clyde Edgerton reading his stuff. I picked up "Raney" and "Walking
> Across Egypt" -- PLUS an accompanying tape by Clyde and the Tarwater
> Band playing old-timey songs (fauxsongs?) mentioned in the books --
> and, I think, all written by him.
>
> As I drove my rental truck down from New England, most of the way I
> sang along with "Quiche Woman in a Barbecue Town," which Cary
> (Containment Area for Relocated Yankees) should adopt as an anthem, if
> it hasn't already. Actually, Apex is where the Boston social worker in
> the song marries the mayor, but maybe Clyde'd change the song if Cary
> adopted it...
>
> Approximate chorus, from memory:
> "She's a quiche woman in a barbecue town...
> With trucks and ticks and tobacco all around...
> She was Vassar cum laude not many years ago...
> The adjustment -- will be slow."
>
> Damn... just realized I've lost track of that tape.
>
> Anyhow, the books are funny (is "affectionate satire" a literary
> category?) and the characters are memorable enough to withstand seeing
> the movie version of Walking Across Egypt (with Mark Hamill as a
> trailer-dwellin' good ol' boy dogcatcher, Ellen Burstyn as a lonely
> granny, Judge Reinhold as her son, and Jonathan Taylor Thomas as a
> "troubled teen")
>
> Now that I'm in Knoxville, I'm told I should read Suttree for local
> color...
>
> cheers,
>
> Bob
> http://stepno.com
>
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