http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/post_114 Frances McCue is almost done writing a book called Chasing Richard Hugo, a memoir about being obsessed with a dead man. It's full of daring stuff, including imaginary encounters with the poet based on his letters or things he said or did around his friends, and parts of an essay McCue once read at Hugo House about the strange relationship she has with her father. "Hugo started to take on this lost-father image for me, because I grew up with an absent father who positioned himself near my mother and me, though he never lived with us. I never saw... Copyright 2008 Wed, 31 Jan 2007 13:18:56 -0800 Wed, 31 Jan 2007 18:33:48 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Frances McCue Answers Questions about the Book She’s Writing: “It’s really not a memoir. It’s something else.”
Write a fucking memoir about your dad as a ghost. Fine. I might be interested. But if you're going to be coy and annoying about the form. Then, I'm a lot less interested in your book. Or is it not really a "book" it's something else."

]]> m. Hertzmann http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/post_114#c605461 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/post_114#c605461 Arts Wed, 31 Jan 2007 13:58:14 -0800 Uh, Hertzmann -- what gives? There are lots of books that are packaged as one thing by publishers but don't really fit those commercially defined shapes. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius? Moby Dick? McCue's book sounds fascinating, and all the better for not being just a memoir.

]]> christopher frizzelle http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/post_114#c605512 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/post_114#c605512 Arts Wed, 31 Jan 2007 14:56:35 -0800 seriously hertzman...don't hate. frances is rad.

]]> dre http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/post_114#c605677 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/post_114#c605677 Arts Wed, 31 Jan 2007 18:33:48 -0800