Our UK Tour – Questions asked in Canterbury
Questions asked October 10 and 11 Why did you start writing so late? (In 1985 Baz was 50 years old.) I had one abortive attempt after another from the time … Read More
Our UK Tour–VEG BOX aka Free Range
October 10, 2013: A train from London to Canterbury where Elaine Randall and Ian Rose met us, stashed our heavy bags in their car, and took us over (in the rain) to The Good Shed –a marvelous combo of farmer’s … Read More
Our UK Tour—October 9 to November 5
October 9: Images from our first day London – A rest before readings, talks, and screening of “Basil King:MIRAGE” to come in Canterbury and at Kent University on the 10th and 11th. A rest we thought, in a modest chain … Read More
NEWS: Far from the Centers of Ambition
Writings about Black Mountain College and it’s influence– from both Martha and Basil King– are included in a book-length tribute to Black Mountain College, Far From the Centers of Ambition, edited by Lee Ann Brown, and just published by Lorimer … Read More
NEWS: Recent Martha King prose available!
Two free and online. One not! 2013 – “Seventy Years Ago in the South”- Big Bridge 17 – 2013 – “True Stories from Lynchburg,” – Blaze Vox, Spring “A Wedding” in print in Skidrow Penthouse magazine, 2013 (To order, for … Read More
NEWS: New Haven Screening
Two words: quiet and intense. Martha read from memoir about moving to New York in 1957—and finding a place where Baz could paint and they could live for $50 a month. Down at the bottom of Manhattan Island, a block … Read More
NEWS: “Basil King: MIRAGE” to play in New Haven
NEWS: June 19, 2013. Mark Lamoureux and Rachel Chatalbash are hosting a screening of the film, “Basil King: MIRAGE” and the video of the conversation between Basil and George Quasha, “Art is Not Natural,” at 7:30 PM in their … Read More
A Green Man in my Bedroom
He used to be in my grandmother Aggie’s dining room. He sat in the dark on a heavy mahogany sideboard. There was enough light for me to see holes that lead inside. They frightened me, or he did. He was … Read More