http://www.edrants.com/segundo/nicholas-meyer-bss-310/ A cultural podcast in tenebrous standing Thu, 19 Jan 2012 23:52:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.edrants.com/segundo/nicholas-meyer-bss-310/comment-page-1/#comment-158300 Friday finds « STEVENHARTSITE Fri, 09 Oct 2009 11:17:26 +0000 http://www.edrants.com/segundo/?p=932#comment-158300 [...] “I tried writing novels as a young man and I didn’t like my novels very much. And by the way, neither did anyone else. So I went to California eventually to seek my fortune and try and get into the movie business. And I was lucky. I started to make some progress. And then just as I was starting to have stuff produced, the Writers Guild did go on strike. This was back in 1972 or ‘73, I think. And I was sharing digs with a young woman who said, “Well now, since you’re not allowed to write screenplays, you can write that book you are always talking about.” And that book was my fanciful notion of a Sherlock Holmes adventure, in which Holmes met and joined forces intellectually as well as narratively with Sigmund Freud. And there really wasn’t any good reason at that point not to try doing it.” [...] [...] “I tried writing novels as a young man and I didn’t like my novels very much. And by the way, neither did anyone else. So I went to California eventually to seek my fortune and try and get into the movie business. And I was lucky. I started to make some progress. And then just as I was starting to have stuff produced, the Writers Guild did go on strike. This was back in 1972 or ‘73, I think. And I was sharing digs with a young woman who said, “Well now, since you’re not allowed to write screenplays, you can write that book you are always talking about.” And that book was my fanciful notion of a Sherlock Holmes adventure, in which Holmes met and joined forces intellectually as well as narratively with Sigmund Freud. And there really wasn’t any good reason at that point not to try doing it.” [...]

]]> http://www.edrants.com/segundo/nicholas-meyer-bss-310/comment-page-1/#comment-157352 The Bat Segundo Show: Nicholas Meyer : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits Fri, 25 Sep 2009 03:50:55 +0000 http://www.edrants.com/segundo/?p=932#comment-157352 [...] Nicholas Meyer appeared on The Bat Segundo Show #310. [...] [...] Nicholas Meyer appeared on The Bat Segundo Show #310. [...]

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