Good evening, everybody. Good evening. Im eric the executive director of the. [inaudible] and behalf of the society i am pleased to represent tonight in conversation our chairman robert should be giving this introduction and i know this would have meant a great deal to him. Unfortunately, hes a bit under the weather and he sent me instead. Its a great honor to make the introduction. Its been said that theres the story and then the real story and then the story of how the story came to be told. The book 50th anniversary we celebrate tonight making it by our guest of honor Norman Podhoretz is an important story in any way you look at it. Good promotion there. [laughter] tonight will tell the story behind the story. In his book, norman says all writers become famous go through ups and downs. These fluctuations reveal less about the writers actual work than they do about the changing fashions of the time. Heres how he put it in his own words 50 years ago every morning a stock Market Report
Good evening, everybody. Good evening. Im eric the executive director of the. [inaudible] and behalf of the society i am pleased to represent tonight in conversation our chairman robert should be giving this introduction and i know this would have meant a great deal to him. Unfortunately, hes a bit under the weather and he sent me instead. Its a great honor to make the introduction. Its been said that theres the story and then the real story and then the story of how the story came to be told. The book 50th anniversary we celebrate tonight making it by our guest of honor Norman Podhoretz is an important story in any way you look at it. Good promotion there. [laughter] tonight will tell the story behind the story. In his book, norman says all writers become famous go through ups and downs. These fluctuations reveal less about the writers actual work than they do about the changing fashions of the time. Heres how he put it in his own words 50 years ago every morning a stock Market Report
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A think as therapy, but oddly enough ive been writing in a way if i need to explain it to somebody and recently ive had a friend read it and she said you should really think about sharing this with somebody else. Maybe should turn it into some sort of boat. I was like that kind of ridiculous, but i started thinking about it in reworking everything. I thought if i did share with someone i would feel so guilty about sharing everything that i would want to do it under a pen name. I am curious if you ever felt any guilt for the things he wrote and if so, how you decided to be there right under your own name or not to the pen name because in my head im thinking i feel really killed the about right in the same general matter how many people read it i would want to pen name it. Im sorry, did you say you feel guilty . Wow. I dont think ive ever felt guilty about anything ive written. If anything, it has been very cathartic and empowering to go back and revisit my past and make peace with it. S
Across the country comes one of the great achievements of our time. A human revealing story that instantly becomes the most discussed novel. Is a lot of stereotypes of oklahoma that come from some very powerful images. First of all the grapes of wrath. When i was growing up that was the one book my father would not allow me to be. I could read anything as long as it wasnt the grapes of wrath because he felt a defanged oklahoma. So many stereotypes about oklahoma and many from the book. That is not to say there wasnt the dust role poll in oklahoma and were not a gospel forever. On the book we have this powerful john ford film with all of the images of the mesmerizing blackandwhite images that the dust blowing. So of course theyve lingered with you both. Of course people see oklahoma in that light. Opposite hinted that we have the movie musical oklahoma because oklahoma is a place where corn goes place where corn goes as high as an elephant died. That is not true either. Oklahoma riders