Annie Proulx's memoir.

[Marge_Innavera]

I have just found out that early next year Annie Proulx's memoir is to be published. It will be called "Bird Cloud: A Memoir" and deals with Brokeback Mountain amongst other things. It is scheduled to be released on January 4, 2011. Something to look forward to in the New Year.

Tell you what, it might be a good thing that Brokeback wasn't the first thing she wrote.  I recently read an article about Harper Lee that suggested her not writing another book was due to To Kill a Mockingbird being such an impossible act to follow.

[Jeff Wrangler]

Tell you what, it might be a good thing that Brokeback wasn't the first thing she wrote.  I recently read an article about Harper Lee that suggested her not writing another book was due to To Kill a Mockingbird being such an impossible act to follow.

Interesting thought. But I wonder what role the films may have had in making both works of literature tough acts to follow? Annie certainly hasn't had any trouble writing more short stories after "Brokeback."

[Front-Ranger]

Very good point, Jeff. It seems like her recent work is rather pale next to Close Range and its magnificent final story.

[Jeff Wrangler]

Very good point, Jeff. It seems like her recent work is rather pale next to Close Range and its magnificent final story.

Sure enough, but unlike Harper Lee, she has continued to write, and her writings have been published. 

[Monika]

I think it´s the case for many writers/musicians/actors that they find it a hard act to follow when their first work is hughly successfull. In Annie´s case she was pretty seasoned by the time she debuted so I doubt that would have been the case even if Close Range would have been her first published piece of fiction.
Personally, I found both "Bad Dirt" and "Fine Just the Way It Is" pretty brilliant. Especially in the latter it´s obvious she is still growing and still experimenting with her style. Pretty impressive for someone in their 70`s.

[Jeff Wrangler]

I just noticed today, reading the Sept. 13 New Yorker at lunch, that Annie is again participating in a panel as part of The New Yorker Festival. On Oct. 1 she's participating in a panel called "Living History," which includes E.L. Doctorow (I thought he was dead!  ) and is moderated by Simon Schama.

[Lynne]

For some reason, the software won't let me link this to the calendar as an event.  It won't let me enter anything past 2010.  I am not going to become alarmed (yet).

 

[Front-Ranger]

But it's on October 1, 2010 is it not? 

[Lynne]

Chowhound'S original post says

It is scheduled to be released on January 4, 2011.

Did the date change?  That is a Tuesday, and new book releases are almost always Tuesdays.

[Jeff Wrangler]

For some reason, the software won't let me link this to the calendar as an event.  It won't let me enter anything past 2010.  I am not going to become alarmed (yet).

 

But it's on October 1, 2010 is it not?  

Chowhound'S original post says

Did the date change?  That is a Tuesday, and new book releases are almost always Tuesdays.

Friends, you're talking about two different things here. I tossed into this thread, because it's current, that Annie will be participating in a panel as part of The New Yorker Festival. This will take place on Oct. 1 of this year. Apparently Lynne is trying to link the release date for Annie's memoirs. I don't know anything about that.