http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/advice_for_young_artistswritersperformer Local hotshot Craig Lucas (playwright, associate artistic director at Intiman) gave the commencement speech at Boston University College of Fine Arts this past weekend, and it wasn't the standard commencement speech about, you know, how you're walking across a bridge toward a path and that path has a fork in it, etc., etc. Lucas gave advice about how to handle success, criticism, and fame in a country whose current government is pretty hostile toward art. One of his lessons of his speech: "Just remember: your success is only news once. After that, the only possible news flash is that you're... Copyright 2008 Tue, 20 May 2008 12:59:44 -0800 Tue, 20 May 2008 15:19:31 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss How could they miss Jorge Luis Borges?

]]> SeMe http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/advice_for_young_artistswritersperformer#c1028423 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/advice_for_young_artistswritersperformer#c1028423 Arts Tue, 20 May 2008 13:12:08 -0800 I've been saying this for decades. The Nobels for Literature are mostly embarrassingly bad.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/advice_for_young_artistswritersperformer#c1028428 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/advice_for_young_artistswritersperformer#c1028428 Arts Tue, 20 May 2008 13:21:04 -0800 Heller, Salinger, Keroauc, Burroughs, and DeLillo also missed the list. But Falkner and Updike made it twice each.

]]> elswinger http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/advice_for_young_artistswritersperformer#c1028456 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/advice_for_young_artistswritersperformer#c1028456 Arts Tue, 20 May 2008 13:41:35 -0800 I'll tell you what I'd give the Noble Prize to...an enormous whozeewhatsit!!!

]]> Christopher Frizzelle's Enormous Whozeewhatsit http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/advice_for_young_artistswritersperformer#c1028459 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/advice_for_young_artistswritersperformer#c1028459 Arts Tue, 20 May 2008 13:42:55 -0800 it's 'bulgakov', not 'bulkagov'.

]]> scary tyler moore http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/advice_for_young_artistswritersperformer#c1028499 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/advice_for_young_artistswritersperformer#c1028499 Arts Tue, 20 May 2008 14:03:29 -0800 didn't tolstoy turn it down?

]]> Bill http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/advice_for_young_artistswritersperformer#c1028521 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/advice_for_young_artistswritersperformer#c1028521 Arts Tue, 20 May 2008 14:14:01 -0800 I’m surprised that Jimmie JJ DYNO-MITE! Walker never won the Nobel, considering what Alfred was famous for inventing.

]]> SeMe http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/advice_for_young_artistswritersperformer#c1028540 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/advice_for_young_artistswritersperformer#c1028540 Arts Tue, 20 May 2008 14:26:20 -0800 @6, no Tolstoy was actually passed over for it.

]]> Cato the Younger Younger http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/advice_for_young_artistswritersperformer#c1028542 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/advice_for_young_artistswritersperformer#c1028542 Arts Tue, 20 May 2008 14:27:12 -0800 Maybe so, Mr. Lucas, but I'd still like to have a Nobel Prize for Literature. Just 'cause.

]]> Bub http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/advice_for_young_artistswritersperformer#c1028565 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/advice_for_young_artistswritersperformer#c1028565 Arts Tue, 20 May 2008 15:00:15 -0800 Fortunately, Craig Lucas is not good enough nor quite bad enough to qualify for a Nobel.

]]> michael strangeways http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/advice_for_young_artistswritersperformer#c1028598 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/advice_for_young_artistswritersperformer#c1028598 Arts Tue, 20 May 2008 15:19:31 -0800