Well, in the month since the last post, I've been in brief contact with DH via e-mail. For those who still come across this Website, I will try to report the most important items as dispassionately as I can:
~ He's retiring from his position on the art-history faculty at the University of Arkansas as of 1 May (the publication date of
Farther Along), after 22 years of teaching. He looks forward to having all his time available to write.
~ He has completed the manuscript for
Enduring, which will be the full story of Stay More's Latha Bourne, and sent it to his current publisher,
Toby Press, in late March.
~ He no longer wants to be in continuing e-mail correspondence with
anyone, and apparently has actively refused all such contacts for several years now.
~ He believes that the quality of his writing has markedly improved, from
With onwards, since he cut off all such e-mail about himself and his work.
~ The unfortunate state of neglect of this (nominally official) Website apparently does not matter to him, for as with all other topics — including his health — he refuses to discuss it.
I would have posted the text of his e-mail here, but I did not obtain his consent to do so. I am respecting his wishes by not e-mailing him about it. This, in effect, would have been the only way to reach him with immediacy, as he cannot use the telephone. (I have sent snail-mail to him, and it hasn't yet been returned.)
This posting will probably be my last on this Website. I wanted to note that my
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette article about DH from 1996 (with some updates) is now available, and will remain so for the indefinite future, at the following link (which opens in a new window) —
http://mysite.verizon.net/starhavenite/dh/dh-article.htmlI have added this link, along with some of the information above, to
the article about DH at Wikipedia. The link has been updated in
the page about DH at the Encyclopedia of Arkansas site, but not at other locations on the Web.
~ Steve (Greybird) Reed, Los Angeles
(Message edited by Greybird On 04/23/2008 08:15:08)
