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...Mark O’Donnell, who is a novelist and playwright, says that the life of a writer is like “a gypsy path”—where the wagon keeps rolling from one job to the next...
...great-grandfather Fong See, an illiterate peasant, left his village in southern China for Sacramento, California, in search of his father, who had disappeared during the building of the transcontinental railroad. At about the same time, Letticie Pruett's family crossed America in a covered wagon and homesteaded in Oregon. By the late 1890s, after years of manual labor, Fong See owned the Curiosity Bizarre, which manufactured underwear for brothels. Letticie had run away from home and ended up in Sacramento. When no one would hire a single, uneducated woman, she drifted into Chinatown and the Curiosity Bizarre, where...
...Collins. The blarney-filled Hollywood romance being filmed in the play bears some resemblance to Far and Away (which starred those Irish favorites Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman), but Jones insists she isn't skewering any single movie or star but simply trying to show what happens "when the wagon rolls in, with all the glitz and glamour, and two cultures that are poles apart coexist for six weeks...
...unconscious, and they were very still and solemn for a while, but in due course they got to talking about cars. It struck me at the time as callous--I was 20 and a poet--to sit by your dying mother and discuss a particular low-mileage Ford station wagon you'd seen on a used-car lot in Anoka, and now it seems like the most natural thing in the world. Life goes on. Your mother is dying, but a man needs wheels...
...Institutionally it's high time PBHA has an alumni association so that students don't do all their good work and then fall off the service wagon," Beilenson says...