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FROM HERE TO ETERNITY: THE MUSICAL
J. MICHAEL LENNON TO PRESENT 6th ANNUAL JAMES JONES LECTURE, NOV. 8, 5 PM, DOUDNA LECTURE HALL, EASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY (--See Overview)
COLLEAGUES, FRIENDS SHARE MEMORIES OF DOUG LAWHEAD
IN MEMORY, DOUG LAWHEAD: JJLS MEMBER
SUBURBAN
TALES THAT GO TO THE EDGE: A PREVIEW OF LONG ISLAND NOIR, BY KAYLIE JOINES
(NEW YORK TIMES REVIEW)
2011 20th ANNUAL JAMES
JONES FIRST NOVEL FELLOWSHIP WINNERS ANNOUNCED!
AMERICAN WRITERS MUSEUM
COMMON
WARFARE, MEMOIRS BY THE LATE CARL M. BECKER AND ROBERT G.
THOBABEN (JJLS MEMBERS) PUBLISHED BY MCFARLAND
FLYER
FOR JAMES JONES ENDOWED CHAIR IN ENGLISH AND HISTORY, EASTERN ILLINOIS
UNIVERSITY
JAMES JONES SHORT STORY AWARD WINNERS:
ILLINOIS CENTER FOR THE BOOK
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
AND
PARTICIPANTS:
Literary
Fathers and Daughters Panel at the 2011 James Jones Society and
Norman Mailer
Society Conference
ELECTRONIC FROM HERE TO ETERNITY UPDATE, NPR
CALL
FOR PAPERS: JONES/MAILER SOCIETIES JOINT CONFERENCE, NOV. 10-11, 2011.
KAYLIE JONES: MY FATHER, JAMES JONES, AND
CENSORSHIP (HUFFINGTON POST)
JAMES JONES
EBOOKS BY OPEN ROAD INTEGRATED MEDIA: SEE EXCELLENT VIDEO CLIP
AUTHOR'S
HEIRS UNCENSOR A CLASSIC WAR NOVEL: NEW YORK TIMES
THE PRIVATE WORLD OF JAMES JONES, ON YOUTUBE
BAIRD HARPER (1st PLACE 2009 JAMES JONES
SHORT STORY AWARD WINNER) RECEIVES NELSON ALGREN SHORT STORY AWARD
CANCELLATION
STAMP ISSUED FOR ROBINSON AUTHOR JAMES JONES AT HIS HOMETOWN POST OFFICE
JAMES JONES SHORT STORY AWARE WINNERS
ANNOUNCED AT ILLINOIS CENTER FOR THE BOOK EMERGING WRITERS COMPETITION
ATTEND THE 2010 NORMAN MAILER SOCIETY
CONFERENCE
2010 JAMES JONES FIRST NOVEL FELLOWSHIP
WINNER: GINA VENTRE
HBO MINISERIES THE PACIFIC CONTAINS JONES' REFERENCE, THIN RED LINE QUOTE
2008
ILLINOIS EMERGING WRITERS COMPETITION
James Jones Short Story Award winners
INSIDE THE HANDY COLONY SLATED TO AIR
NATIONALLY ON PBS, THURSDAY, OCT. 23 (Check local listings for times)
1956
TIME ARTICLE ON
GERALD TESCH HANDY COLONY NOVEL
(SEE RELATED LETTER/REPLY)
"WHEN
THE DEVIL CAME TO MARSHALL" (NEWSPAPER ARTICLES ABOUT JAMES JONES IN
MARSHALL, ILLINOIS)
GEORGE GARRETT, SOUTHERN NOVELIST AND JONES
BIOGRAPHER, IS DEAD
SCHULZ
PHOTOS OF JAMES JONES'S HOUSE AT
HANDY WRITERS' COLONY, MARSHALL, ILLINOIS
"THE MARSHALL PAPERS: UIS HOME TO UNIQUE
COLLECTION OF WRITERS' COLONY DOCUMENTS"
"BANNED VALENTINE:
ENGLISH TEACHER KEEPS JAMES JONES'S LEGACY ALIVE IN ROBINSON"
"LOWNEY'S LEGACY: MORE THAN A LOVE OF
WRITING DROVE THE STRANGE COLONY IN MARSHALL, ILL."
BOBBY VAN, JONES'S FRIEND, DIES AT 64
"NORMAN
MAILER: A
PROLIFIC LIFE TO THE END"
DEBORAH
KERR, ACTRESS KNOWN FOR GENTEEL GRACE AND SEXY BEACH KISS, DIES AT 86
FROM HERE TO ETERNITY: "THIS BRASH WWII
TALE WELL WORTH ANOTHER LOOK" -- CHICAGO TRIBUNE'S JULIA KELLER
NORMAN
MAILER SENDS LETTER OF SUPPORT FOR
JAMES JONES CHAIR IN WWII STUDIES; SEPT. 7 KICKOFF DINNER
PLANNED IN ROBINSON
JAMES
JONES CHAIR IN WWII STUDIES ESTABLISHED AT EIU
DAVE NIGHTINGALE, 1932-2007, PAST JJLS PRESIDENT
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
ROBINSON
DAILY NEWS
"THEY ASK, 'IS HE STILL ALIVE?' YES, SIR.
ERNEST BORGNINE IS 90 TODAY AND HE STILL WANTS TO WORK, SAYING ACTING
KEEPS HIM YOUNG." LA TIMES ARTICLE WITH FROM HERE TO ETERNITY REFERENCE
BROADWAY LYRICIST BETTY COMDEN, JONES
FRIEND AND JJLS SPEAKER, DIES AT 89
JAMES
JONES FILMS TO HIT THE BIG SCREEN AT
CHAMPAIGN'S VIRGINIA THEATRE, NOV. 10-11, 2006
FROM
ETERNITY TO HERE,
PEGGY NOONAN REMEMBERS JAMES JONES, HOW ARMY HAS CHANGED
GLORIA
JONES,
1928-2006
JAMES
JONES LINCOLN
TRAIL WRITING AWARD
JAMES
JONES/HANDY WRITERS' COLONY RECOGNIZED IN MARSHALL, ILLINOIS; HOUSE AND
COLONY GROUNDS NAMED LITERARY LANDMARK; DEDICATION CEREMONY MAY 18, 2006
HIGH
SCHOOL STUDENTS WIN JAMES JONES LITERARY SOCIETY ESSAY CONTEST
GORE
VIDAL'S 1993 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD ACCEPTANCE SPEECH: JONES 'MY OLD
FRIEND'
1994
FIRST NOVEL FELLOWSHIP WINNER PUBLISHES SECOND NOVEL, THE BOWL IS
ALREADY BROKEN
WILKES
UNIVERSITY ANNOUNCES WINNER OF JAMES JONES FIRST NOVEL CONTEST: ANNE
CAMPISI
DAILY
HELMSMAN ADVANCE COVERAGE OF 2005 JJLS SYMPOSIUM
2004 FIRST NOVEL FELLOWSHIP WINNER JOHN E. SMELCER
HAS EXCERPT FROM THE TRAP PUBLISHED IN PROVENCETOWN ARTS
MAGAZINE
JJLS
VICE PRESIDENT
RAY ELLIOTT'S LETTER
TO ROBINSON NEWSPAPER
HERTZ
COMMERCIAL
FEATURES FROM HERE TO ETERNITY NOVEL
KAYLIE
JONES AND OTHER INSTRUCTORS
OFFER SUMMER WRITING WORKSHOPS IN MEXICO
THESIS:
"FICTION AS HISTORY: JAMES JONES," BY PENNY MARIE SONNENBERG
PARIS
REVIEW INTERVIEW WITH JAMES JONES (PDF)
"FROM
HERE TO ETERNITY RETURNS TO BIG SCREEN"
"50
YEARS LATER, ETERNITY STILL SMART, AUTHORITATIVE"
JONES
HOLLYWOOD RESIDENCE PART OF HISTORIC TOUR
FROM
HERE TO ETERNITY FILM "DESTINED FOR ETERNAL GREATNESS"
--Article by Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
"FIFTY
YEARS LATER," FROM HERE TO ETERNITY STILL MAKING CINEMATIC WAVES
--Article by J. Hoberman, Village Voice
"REMEMBER
THE WOUNDED"
--Article about reality of war by Edward W. Wood, Jr.
TERRENCE
MALICK ONE OF AMERICA'S TOP TEN DIRECTORS
"PASSING
THE TEST OF TIME"
--Review of From Here to Eternity film by Robert Horton,
KAYLIE JONES.COM
--New web page of the daughter of James Jones.
2000 JAMES
JONES FIRST NOVEL FELLOWSHIP WINNER'S NOVEL TO BE PUBLISHED
SPEAK
NOW, NEWEST NOVEL BY KAYLIE JONES, NOW AVAILABLE
JAMES JONES
FILM FESTIVAL CANCELLED UNTIL FORTHER NOTICE
WILD HANDS
TOWARD THE SKY, NEW NOVEL BY PAST JJLS PRESIDENT RAY ELLIOTT,
AVAILABLE FROM TALES PRESS
--See new review
in St. Louis Post-Dispatch
NORMAN
MAILER'S LETTERS, 1963-1966, ON AN AMERICAN DREAM, AVAILABLE FROM
SLIGO PRESS
--New book edited by former JJLS President J. Michael Lennon.
FINALLY...
THAT CIGAR! NOW WHERE'D I PUT MY LIGHTER?
--Willie Morris gave JJLS member Paul Clayton's
novel a boost. Read Clayton's essay about his novel's publishing
experiences, and a new interview
with the author.
GREAT
JONES QUOTE BY NORMAN MAILER FROM THE SPOOKY ART
"James Jones and I used to feel in the early 1950s that
we were the two best writers around. Unspoken was the feeling that
there was room for only one of us. I remember that Jones inscribed my
copy of From Here to Eternity 'For Norman, my dearest enemy, my most
feared friend.'"
BOOKNOTES.ORG--AUTHOR
A. SCOTT BERG:
"Max Perkins
is the one great book editor in the history of American literature. And
here is a man who single-handedly discovered and nurtured F. Scott
Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, Ring Lardner, James Jones, Margorie
Kinnan Rawlings, Taylor Caldwell,
20 of the greatest writers in this century."
BOOKNOTES.ORG-- AUTHOR
MARSHALL DEBRUHL
INTERVIEW MENTIONS "GREAT AMERICAN NOVELIST" JAMES JONES
"Gloria
Jones is
the widow of James Jones,
the great American novelist who wrote From Here to Eternity and
Thin Red Line and books
-- such books as that. And Gloria's my great friend from Easthampton.
We actually worked together once at Doubleday. She was an
editor also and so Gloria was the one who said to me, 'Marshall, when
are you going to write your book on Sam Houston?' Actually we
were driving down the Long Island Expressway in New York and I was
talking about this man and I had, I guess, bored her to death with
it and she finally said to me, 'Why don't you write this book,' and
she actually introduced me to my editor at Random House, Bob Loomis. "
LINDA BUSBY
PARKER RECEIPIENT
OF 10TH ANNUAL JAMES JONES FIRST NOVEL FELLOWSHIP
NOW AVAILABLE: SHIFTING INTERLUDES, BY WILLIE MORRIS,
INCLUDES ESSAY ON JONES
"Despite
Bizarre Goings-on, Writers' Colony Spawned Successful Authors"
JJLS MEMBER/AUTHOR PAUL CLAYTON'S NEW HOME PAGE WITH JONES'
QUOTE
--Buy his ebook, Carl Melcher Goes To Vietnam,
at Electric
eBookstore (a Frankfurt
eBook Contest Finalist); print copy available
at Booklocker.com; see his dedication to James Jones and Willie
Morris on the Links page.
MAILER, WORKS AND DAYS (WITH JONES REFERENCES), NEW
BOOK BY J. MICHAEL LENNON AND DONNA PEDRO LENNON (Check Newsletter to Find Out
More!)
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