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...Larry doubts that great talent can emerge from the kitschy tourist zone on Prince Edward Island where his parents run a Highwayman Motor Hotel, and he leaves the island to attend university. He takes heart in another poet's observation about those tough writing days when the poem grins back while "I chop it like a mean boy." And there are plenty of days when Larry can see a poem in his typewriter grinning back at him, displaying what he imagines as a mixture of embarrassment, pity and superiority: "I may be a terrible poem, it grins, but at least...
What Thompson calls “the most famous of all anthropodermic bindings” resides across the river at the Boston Athenaeum. The book, “The Highwayman: Narrative of the Life of James Allen alias George Walton,” is a memoir whose author lives on inside as well as on the book’s covers. Walton was impressed by the courage of a man whom he once attacked, and when Walton was facing execution, he asked to have his memoir bound in his own skin and presented to the brave...
...much to talk about that we couldn't have with nonsiblings present, stuff from childhood when our hearts were open, and now we carry it everywhere we go. We were in London, having supper at the pub on the Thames where the gallows once stood where the highwayman Jack Sheppard swung back in the time of George I, and the river reminded us of the Mississippi, and pretty soon my brother was telling how he found a .32cal. pistol in a cornfield behind the house when he was 15 and carried it around on his person for a few days...
...Highwayman came to fruition last summer when Jarcho participated in the Eugene O’Neill Playwrights Conference in Waterford, Conn., where she was a writer-in-residence. “It sounds silly to say that I wrote the play in a month, but that’s all I had to do [at the conference].” Jarcho is a veteran downtown New York theater actress, and that world—where playwrights direct their own works and ask friends, including non-actors, to play roles—contributed to “my sensibility?...
...familiarity of many of the cast members makes for some strange and hilarious moments during rehearsal. When Ezekiel W. “Zeke” Reich ’03, the eponymous Highwayman and a friend of Jarcho’s since childhood, messes up a line in a particularly odd way, he and Jarcho burst out laughing. After about thirty seconds, the rest of the cast looks at each other mystified. Finally, one actor admits “I don’t get it” and the rest of the casts nods in agreement. Later, Reich says...