Newly Discovered Old Robert Hunter Book Released!

[cozmik_cowboy]

It's in the drawer, and I'm about 1/4 through the one i checked out before it; soon.

Peter

[cozmik_cowboy]

OK, I'm about halfway through it.  While there is no doubt Hunter made the right choice concentrating on lyrics rather than novels, I am enjoying it.  Having read enough about it to recognize most of the people and places, that was all outside views written much later; it is very interesting to see the same things through the eyes of a participant, written pretty much at the time (I will add, one of my comps for my MA was on the role of the participant historian in the historiography of the New Left & Civil Rights movements).

I am also struck by the similarities between their scene and some I was part of 15-20 years later and half a continent away.  Though none of evolved into quite what theirs did......

Peter

[David Houck]

OK, I'm about halfway through it.  While there is no doubt Hunter made the right choice concentrating on lyrics rather than novels, I am enjoying it.  Having read enough about it to recognize most of the people and places, that was all outside views written much later; it is very interesting to see the same things through the eyes of a participant, written pretty much at the time (I will add, one of my comps for my MA was on the role of the participant historian in the historiography of the New Left & Civil Rights movements).

I am also struck by the similarities between their scene and some I was part of 15-20 years later and half a continent away.  Though none of evolved into quite what theirs did......

Peter

I appreciate that kind of perspective.

[edwin]

Reviews of Hunter's book on Amazon are mixed.

I think any of our work done at that age would receive mixed reviews.

[lbpesq]

I must respectfully disagree.  I suspect most of my writings at that age would have been almost universally panned.  hehehehe.  I had not yet learned an important lesson: “there is no such thing as good writing … only good rewriting!”

Bill, tgo

[cozmik_cowboy]

I must respectfully disagree.  I suspect most of my writings at that age would have been almost universally panned.  hehehehe.  I had not yet learned an important lesson: “there is no such thing as good writing … only good rewriting!”

Bill, tgo

When I first dropped in on you fine folks, I was a graduate student; a history major, in fact, and that means writing - lots of it.  I thought my papers were OK.  Others did, too, I guess, as I had won the prize for best undergrad history paper of the year 3 times (nobody else has done it twice, if I may brag for a moment).
That was 2 decades ago; I will still, on some insomniac nights, pull up these papers (which no one else will ever read again) and polish them.
I was in my 40s & 50s when I wrote those; the stuff from when I was 19? Long since burned...and rightfully so.

Peter