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At the time in NYC when Willa Cather was surrounded in a social and literary environment where the up and coming boys like Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner, and perhaps even George Bernard Shaw after her “London Roses,” were freely taking her understated and ground-breaking words as their own and giving extremely-minimal-to-non-existent credit to her—she an accomplished novelist, poet and top magazine editor—and what after her passing Truman Capote would do to her in culling together Breakfast at Tiffany’s from her vision, characters, and stories and making it about his dark self instead of her extraordinary vision—intrepidly reinstated by Audrey Hepburn—Willa impelled herself further into deep, careful contemplation of how to take her revolutionary insight of the feminine and the possibilities of...

  Conservatives would like for us to learn the Hebrew Bible and abide by it as the rules for our lives. I grew up with it. My name is in Jacob's prophecy, "Until Shiloh comes.” I am female. I knew as a child they didn’t like females, and later I saw that the curse in Genesis occurs at a reference to my name, of course in a sacred grove. I dearly love the forest where I live, the Lincoln National Forest. The opening of Willa Cather's novel Death Comes for the Archbishop follows the path up with references to the Jornada del Muerto of a red rock terrain and which is near my home in New Mexico. It is the description...

  Many years ago scholar Tom Quirk showed how F. Scott Fitzgerald while writing The Great Gatsby (1925) was influenced by/and or plagiarized Willa Cather's writing. Fitzgerald himself had to admit it at the success of his novel. In particular, that he had been so deeply affected by what she was tapping into I believe that he also wanted to know and present that feminine ardor of presence Willa was able to emanate off the page. Quirk wrote, "Willa Cather had written Fitzgerald of her admiration of Gatsby in the spring of 1925; the next fall she would begin to write what she ultimately considered her finest novel, Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927)." On 28 April 1925--now 99 1/2...

My heart map of Greenwich Village, 2010"How Willa Cather's Breakfast at Tiffany's Began in the Village (1908), Falling in Love with John Mayer in 2010"A romance on top of a romance, a movie across a century, and a reality of falling in love and having the sweetest, most quiet relationship with @johnmayer .This is where writing screenplays at the time of first coming to know John became looking closer at the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's and the writer Willa Cather's work which first developed right on Washington Square Park. My screenplay sequel "Dinner at Tiffany's" which takes place "after the ending credits kiss" into what love actually is that I had worked on drafts for years, morphed into coming to know John...

I wanted to write about what I knew from my own experience about what I saw first hand in why #bobweir #mickeyhart and #billkreutzmann joined with #johnmayer to form Dead & Company. There are some generally accepted perceptions (which most often should be questioned), and they don't quite match with the magic and depth of what's going on on stage and what we should already know about Bob, Mickey, and Bill, that they would never be short-sighted or be about cashing in at this point in their extraordinary existences. There's something out of this world going on, something I never dreamt the magnitude of.But I can do my little part. I can speak to what happened and why it matters so gorgeously now.It goes back to something...