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[inaudible conversations] good morning. we have a few coming in the back. there we go. my name is linda, and we are delighted to have you participate in the tenth annual savannah be book festival presented by georgia power and the sheehan family foundation. we are blessed to host such celebrated authors in the trinity united methodist church today which has been made possible by the generous generosity of kurt and linda anderson. we d like to extend a special thanks to our literatety members and individual donors who have made and continue to make saturday s free festival events possible. before we get started, there s always housekeeping. immediately following the presentation, terry mcdonnell will be signing festival-purchased copies of his book in the square. we have a new policy this year. if you re planning to stay for the next author presentation, please move forward into the venue so that the ushers can count the number of seats available for people coming in ....
anderson. we d like to extend a special thanks to our literatety members and individual donors who have made and continue to make saturday s free festival events possible. before we get started, there s always housekeeping. immediately following the presentation, terry mcdonnell will be signing festival-purchased copies of his book in the square. we have a new policy this year. if you re planning to stay for the next author presentation, please move forward into the venue so that the ushers can count the number of seats available for people coming in for it. please, please take a moment to turn off your cell phones, and we also ask that you do not use flash photography. and for the question-and-answer portion of today s session, it s a little bit different than it s been in years past. please raise your hands, and an usher will bring a microphone to you. terry mcdonnell is with us today courtesy of robert and diane levy and bill and nina wheel. terry mcdonnell has won n ....
columbia journalism review. the wave runner at the new york times says he writes winningly about his regrets and evokes the magazine world payday of lavishv offices, drink in the evening and hedonism.nism. mcdonnell, the accidental life is the saddest fact of the team from the. he help when an amazon i spoke alloys and 2610. please give a warm stefania old-school welcome to terry mcdonell. [applause] thank you. this is my first boat. i can t imagine a better place to be right now in this beautiful church in this fine, fine city. my book is about writers and their work and working with them. it is an editor s notes on writing and writers in the subhead. when i am honest about this book, and i say that out of a a kind of vanity, i want to show myself as a writer. i thought the best way to dote t that with the too bright about the great writers that i edited and what i learned editing them. not just about writing, but thet writing life. dating site couch and salts at ....
working on global health care initiatives. that is tonight on c-span s book tv. . my book is about writers and their work and working with them. it s an editor s notes on writing and writers as it said in the sub-head. when i m honest about this book, i say that out of a kind of vanity, i wanted to show myself as a writer and i thought the best way to do that is to write about the great writers that i edited and what i earned editing them. not just about writing, but abwriting life. things like how jim salter never talked about being a fighter pilot, but he loved to play touch football and he kept meticulous records of these meaningless football games, meaningless pickup games, well, which made the games a lot more fun, of course. and how he and peter matheson would dive into the freezing surf on the first day of november in amganset every year and have iced martinis on the beach with their lives. and jim harrison used to hang up on me when we were working on the phone ....
host: you hitchhiked. guest: yeah. and guys were throwing beer bottles at me from pickup trucks, and i d hitchhiked from twin cities and here i am in gillette and i d never seen the west before. i was awestruck by it but gillette was a tough town, and i saw someone walking towards me from town that looked like bad news. and i m a young kid out in the great land and kind of jumpy. this guy is walking towards me and i remember he was in a carhartt canvas union suit that was filthy dirty and his hair was matted and he clearly was homeless and struggling. he was big dude. he came up to me, and i was instantly on my guard. and he said, hey, man, where are you going? i said, i m going california. and he said, how much food you got? now, i would give food to anyone who was hungry, but i didn t think that s what was going on. thought he wanted to rob me. wanted me to get me to open up my bag. i didn t know what was going to happen but i was definitely jumpy. so, i said, i j ....