I recently read Pocock’s Greyhound - I travelled around the US on Greyhounds in 1991. I have no issue with writing about somewhere you’ve never been - part of Me and Mickie James was set in Vietnam and my latest, Saltburn, well, my dad was from there but I visited only once at about 5 years old so my Saltburn is made up…
Thanks for a rollocking ride over, through and past what was very much my own 1970s on-screen childhood. Oddly, enough despite all the many similarities, my viewing was all done in a loungeroom in Canberra, Australia. (I was surprised you recalled Starskey and Hutch as being filmed in New York, as it had a very Californian vibe to me. In fact that was the case, BTW.) Steinbeck’s Travels with Charley, was also a book that I enjoyed greatly...Only to find that the author had neglected to mention that he'd not only been with Charley the dog but his own wife for a lot of the supposdly solo trips. Echoes of Chatwin's inventions, there.
Thanks Brett. I think there's a tradition of solo ventures not being entirely solo (Thoreau's Walden for example). It's good to hear someone was having the same 70s on the other side of the world.
Particularly as a non-American living in the US at the moment, I found this fascinating. I'd be interested to know if you plan to visit at some stage in the drafting/revising process, or whether you plan to write the whole thing without coming over here (and, if so, if you feel there might be advantages as well as challenges to taking that approach)?
Hi Emily, good to hear from you! Hope all is well in Washington DC. Thanks so much for the kind words. I am indeed intending to go to America before I finish the book (and i'm not properly going on it yet though I have all the characters and the plot). I don't know whether you know, but Samantha and I separated last year. All is amicable and we're co-parenting Ben 50:50. I was thinking of taking Ben to NYC next half term or Easter. Not just a research visit, you understand, but I think he would enjoy America immensely. All my best, Jude x
I recently read Pocock’s Greyhound - I travelled around the US on Greyhounds in 1991. I have no issue with writing about somewhere you’ve never been - part of Me and Mickie James was set in Vietnam and my latest, Saltburn, well, my dad was from there but I visited only once at about 5 years old so my Saltburn is made up…
https://open.substack.com/pub/drewgummerson/p/on-the-greyhound-book-review?r=rg1n9&utm_medium=ios
Thanks for a rollocking ride over, through and past what was very much my own 1970s on-screen childhood. Oddly, enough despite all the many similarities, my viewing was all done in a loungeroom in Canberra, Australia. (I was surprised you recalled Starskey and Hutch as being filmed in New York, as it had a very Californian vibe to me. In fact that was the case, BTW.) Steinbeck’s Travels with Charley, was also a book that I enjoyed greatly...Only to find that the author had neglected to mention that he'd not only been with Charley the dog but his own wife for a lot of the supposdly solo trips. Echoes of Chatwin's inventions, there.
Thanks Brett. I think there's a tradition of solo ventures not being entirely solo (Thoreau's Walden for example). It's good to hear someone was having the same 70s on the other side of the world.
Particularly as a non-American living in the US at the moment, I found this fascinating. I'd be interested to know if you plan to visit at some stage in the drafting/revising process, or whether you plan to write the whole thing without coming over here (and, if so, if you feel there might be advantages as well as challenges to taking that approach)?
Hi Emily, good to hear from you! Hope all is well in Washington DC. Thanks so much for the kind words. I am indeed intending to go to America before I finish the book (and i'm not properly going on it yet though I have all the characters and the plot). I don't know whether you know, but Samantha and I separated last year. All is amicable and we're co-parenting Ben 50:50. I was thinking of taking Ben to NYC next half term or Easter. Not just a research visit, you understand, but I think he would enjoy America immensely. All my best, Jude x
You rejected me you bastard. And still I love you. Get conduit on its feet please. We need you.