Blog Posts for Scott C. Holstad

"The Continual Condition" - Bukowski's New Book

Scott C. Holstad — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 07:35:33 -0800

I have long been a huge fan of Charles Bukowski. Indeed, I've rarely -- if ever -- met a bigger fan, although I'm sure such exists. I have a number of books, and a Bukowski t-shirt, he personally autographed for me when he was alive and we were corresponding. When he died in March 1994, I was deeply saddened, although I'd known he'd been in the hospital, was in his 70s and his health was ...

My Favorite Bookstore

Scott C. Holstad — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:50:32 -0800

My favorite bookstore. Gosh, where to start? I guess I’ll start at the top (my top, at least).I grew up admiring the Beats. I seriously dug Ginsberg, Kerouac, Burroughs and the others, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti especially spoke to me. Thus, as an avid reader, I read about Ferlinghetti opening his own bookstore in San Francisco a number of decades ago. It was called City Lights. City ...

My Wife's Illness

Scott C. Holstad — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 08:09:06 -0700

I last wrote about my wife, Jennifer, and I celebrating our sixth anniversary in Asheville, NC. That was close to a month ago. I ended the blog post about my wife getting a giant migraine, thus ending the fun times on a difficult note. Well, read on.My wife got worse, if that's possible. Her headache pain was on a scale of 10/10. She developed nausea and threw up regularly. Her joints ...

Our Anniversary Weekend

Scott C. Holstad — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 05:10:48 -0700

This past weekend, Jennifer and I celebrated our sixth anniversary together! I had decided some time ago to take her to Asheville NC for the long weekend, as we'd never been there, and we'd heard it was funky and nice. So, off we went. I made numerous pre-arrangements, and the first (and perhaps the best) was that we stayed at a lovely (and incredibly expensive!) B&B called the 1889 WhiteGate ...

Amazon, Microsoft & Yahoo Join to Fight Google Books

Scott C. Holstad — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 00:40:31 -0700

I think I'll cut & paste this online article about Google Books into this blog entry. Here's the URL: http://money.cnn.com/2009/08/21/technology/google_books/index.htm. I'm curious to know what other writers out there think of this issue, particularly now that Google has settled with The Authors Guild.... Anyone? Amazon, Microsoft, Yahoo fight Google BooksThree Google rivals ...

Bukowski's Famous FrancEyE, Mother of his Daughter, dies at age 87

Scott C. Holstad — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:30:14 -0700

Santa Monica poet and mother to Marina Bukowski, Charles Bukowski's only child, Frances Dean Smith (FrancEyE) died a couple of weeks ago at age 87. She was popularized by Bukowski as "Old Snaggle-Tooth" in at least one of his poems.

Funding Cuts Endanger LSU Press & The Southern Review!

Scott C. Holstad — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 03:36:24 -0700

Read this story and gasp in horror: http://blog.nola.com/susanlarson/2009/05/funding_cuts_threaten_louisian....

We Are Now Homeowners!

Scott C. Holstad — Mon, 18 May 2009 03:48:37 -0700

My wife and I have been searching for our first ever home since January. See, I've moved all over the country, some 25 times or so, and have never settled anywhere long enough to buy a house. That's changed. We found a great one in February. Got into a bidder's war. Lost out on it, even though we offered more. The other party could close sooner than we could. Found another one, ...

Amazon & Freelance Class-Action Updates, per Authors Guild

Scott C. Holstad — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 03:55:03 -0800

I got this message from the Authors Guild late last night. It might prove interesting and/or informative to you authors out there.... We have two major developments to bring you up to date on. The first development involves Amazon's Kindle 2 reading device and the second pertains to our freelance class-action settlement (a settlement entirely independent of the settlement in our lawsuit ...

Super Steelers!!!

Scott C. Holstad — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 08:04:01 -0800

HELL YEAH!!! My Pittsburgh Steelers are in the Super Bowl AGAIN! Second time in four years, and seventh time overall. With a 5-1 Super Bowl record, the Steelers can become the first team in the NFL to win six Super Bowls. Sweet!First of all, in the NFC Championship Game, the upstart Arizona Cardinals beat the favored Philadelphia Eagles 32-25 to go to their first Super Bowl ever. I like ...