Category Archives: becoming jackie

book ‘em

Posted on 12 May 2011 by

(27 april 2011) i’m sitting in riverside center room 12 listening to this guy wax on about how the male youths of the 60s were pivotally influenced by the depictions of manhood in john wayne’s the sands of iwo jima … Continue reading →

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shots in the dark

Posted on 29 March 2011 by

(24 march 2011) i wrote the sister again. yes, the sister has already informed me she does not give interviews about jackie, but considering i have very little to lose beyond pride and dignity and all that shit that i’m … Continue reading →

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money makes the world go round

Posted on 3 March 2011 by

(18 february 2011) if it is challenging to explain why one is good at what one does, it’s nearly impossible to put a price on it. i have been asked to establish my fee. this is a process enormously complicated … Continue reading →

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all wrong

Posted on 27 January 2011 by

(17 january 2011) i wonder sometimes if i’ve got it all wrong. made up a series of elaborate meanings where there are, in fact, none. these are the scary days. on the good days, it makes perfect sense and most … Continue reading →

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breakthrough

Posted on 25 January 2011 by

(12 january 2011) i am alarmingly resistant to different ways of thinking. not necessarily in life in general, but when it comes to jackie, i take an extraordinarily limited view and subscribe to the age-old paradigm that one must write … Continue reading →

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here, kitty, kitty

Posted on 20 January 2011 by

(23 december 2010) there is a convention of biographers convening in the middle of may. thanks to some tantalizing press materials, it has long been known that the pre-conference reception will be held at the “washington d.c. home of a … Continue reading →

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sister, sister

Posted on 13 January 2011 by

(16 december 2010) i am still writing letters. and, blessedly, getting letters in return. it is a struggle to comprehend that these letters are, in fact, progress. i put that down to the fact that they inevitably arrive in my … Continue reading →

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the sister

Posted on 6 January 2011 by

(17 november 2010) writing biography is like being blanche dubois. you’ve nothing except the kindness of strangers upon which to rely. you hope they will remember. that they will talk. to you. that they will not die and take their … Continue reading →

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oh yeah.

Posted on 4 January 2011 by

(8 november 2010) I am meant to be researching a Jackie book. I forgot this. Like, seriously, for a full week it was wiped from my mind. I’m pretty sure this would not happen to a real biographer. No real … Continue reading →

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we real cool

Posted on 23 December 2010 by

(1 november 2010) the pile of important papers that i keep less than six inches away from the liter box is the organizational equivalent of my physical response to being a biographer. a friend pointed this out the other day. look … Continue reading →

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