Comments on: About http://johndufresne.wordpress.com Sat, 16 Aug 2008 13:22:42 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: nightmode http://johndufresne.wordpress.com/about/#comment-50 nightmode Tue, 05 Aug 2008 23:42:36 +0000 #comment-50 Wow. I just finished Requiem Mass. As usual, the only thing I hated about it was that it ended. Thought I'd read every book you'd written, but I see from the list above that a couple are missing from my bookshelf. Thank you for years of fun and escape. When I can bear to part with them, I give your books to people who I think will appreciate them, when I can't, I buy or make them buy their own copies. There are a few authors whose books I covet and devour, but nobody makes me feel like I do when I visit with your folks. One day I am going to make it to the east coast of Florida, or maybe you will come to the west coast. I would love to have a coffee, or what the hell, a scotch with you. Just to keep it clean, I am married and not a psycho or stalker or dangerous in the way most people define the term. I have met and spoken or corresponded with Jeffrey Eugenides, Jonathan Frantzen, Jane Juska, Charles Baxter, Thomas Lynch, and Joyce Maynard. That makes me something of a literary groupie, I guess, but books like yours, and some of theirs, get ahold of me and don't let go. Thanks, n. Wow. I just finished Requiem Mass. As usual, the only thing I hated about it was that it ended. Thought I’d read every book you’d written, but I see from the list above that a couple are missing from my bookshelf.

Thank you for years of fun and escape. When I can bear to part with them, I give your books to people who I think will appreciate them, when I can’t, I buy or make them buy their own copies. There are a few authors whose books I covet and devour, but nobody makes me feel like I do when I visit with your folks.

One day I am going to make it to the east coast of Florida, or maybe you will come to the west coast. I would love to have a coffee, or what the hell, a scotch with you.

Just to keep it clean, I am married and not a psycho or stalker or dangerous in the way most people define the term. I have met and spoken or corresponded with Jeffrey Eugenides, Jonathan Frantzen, Jane Juska, Charles Baxter, Thomas Lynch, and Joyce Maynard. That makes me something of a literary groupie, I guess, but books like yours, and some of theirs, get ahold of me and don’t let go.

Thanks,

n.

]]> By: Frank http://johndufresne.wordpress.com/about/#comment-44 Frank Sat, 05 Jul 2008 03:32:33 +0000 #comment-44 You might enjoy Wordle . . . http://wordle.net . . . I "Wordled" your blog as an example . . . http://wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/52708/Dufresne It's interesting to see what it can do with a good batch of text. Take care. You might enjoy Wordle . . .

http://wordle.net

. . . I “Wordled” your blog as an example . . .

http://wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/52708/Dufresne

It’s interesting to see what it can do with a good batch of text.

Take care.

]]> By: Frank http://johndufresne.wordpress.com/about/#comment-37 Frank Fri, 20 Jun 2008 01:58:18 +0000 #comment-37 I'm a new fan of yours. I just finished reading the Johnny Too Bad collection of stories and I love it. With Johnny, Annick and Spot - and the monkeys, squirrels, raccoons, roseate spoonbills and lizards - it has this wonderful Tarzan and Jane in Florida feel to it. I'm not sure what to make of the blend of love and death that you've concocted, but it's so much easier to face the harsh meanness, violence and human ugliness knowing that Spot has his chin on the bed and his tail is wagging. It's the kind of narrative mishmash that just might pass for a sensible world view. Thanks. I’m a new fan of yours. I just finished reading the Johnny Too Bad collection of stories and I love it. With Johnny, Annick and Spot – and the monkeys, squirrels, raccoons, roseate spoonbills and lizards – it has this wonderful Tarzan and Jane in Florida feel to it. I’m not sure what to make of the blend of love and death that you’ve concocted, but it’s so much easier to face the harsh meanness, violence and human ugliness knowing that Spot has his chin on the bed and his tail is wagging. It’s the kind of narrative mishmash that just might pass for a sensible world view.

Thanks.

]]> By: FIU/Hutchinson Island Writers Conference « A World in a Grain of Sand http://johndufresne.wordpress.com/about/#comment-27 FIU/Hutchinson Island Writers Conference « A World in a Grain of Sand Thu, 27 Mar 2008 06:07:32 +0000 #comment-27 [...] writer JOHN DUFRESNE (Requiem, [...] [...] writer JOHN DUFRESNE (Requiem, [...]

]]> By: bibomedia http://johndufresne.wordpress.com/about/#comment-21 bibomedia Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:57:11 +0000 #comment-21 :) :)

]]> By: bethwellington http://johndufresne.wordpress.com/about/#comment-5 bethwellington Fri, 21 Dec 2007 17:01:00 +0000 #comment-5 Welcome to your new home, John. Love the Chekhov test. Welcome to your new home, John. Love the Chekhov test.

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