Posted February 23.2010 Link to Amazon.com added 2/28
Gordon Chism's new book!
This
website is kind of a family affair; on the home page of the Blue Plate
Special we see Walter Van Tilburg Clark with a reference to his classic book
City of Trembling Leaves. Now comes his nephew, my contemporary Gordon
Chism, who has recently penned - actually recast - what I think is an excellent
book about our city -
As I Remember
I've said for years that Gordon - together with his brothers Will and David, his sister Betty Cordes (and I'll gladly include his late mother Miriam and her brother Walter Van Tilburg Clark, and third-generation Calder and Johnna) - hails from one of the most talented families in Reno. I would love to be able to write like he does
The back cover of the book describes it very aptly. I just received a copy last week, and I plan to do a review of it that you'll read here and hopefully in the Reno Gazette-Journal
If you like the Blue Plate Special, you'll love this book of Gordon's, as a gift or for your own enjoyment (I generally gift books that I want to read and hopefully erase my notes before I wrap them...)
More will follow; it's on Amazon.com, soon at Sundance Books and if you get stuck call or e-mail me and we'll get one to you somehow
(scroll down; the page construction is awkward but I'm trying to make the images as large as possible)
The back cover text tells it pretty well. For more information you can call me
(775) FA2-5017 or e-mail at karlbreckenridge@live.com
link to Amazon.com:
http://tinyurl.com/chism-book-As-I-Remember
e-mail address of publisher:
Gordon's e-mail address:
To the casual reader: Ray Conniff's Hi Lilli, Hi Lo has absolutely nothing to do with Gordy's new book; I'm using this page as a guinea pig, or page, in adding music to the webpages. (Cal Pettengill has been kindly doing it for me but every time I modify a page I lose Cal's work, like the Theme from the Valley of the Dolls currently playing on the home page)
Cal, as our BPS Music Director, is still pickin' the tunes
don't try to understand - it's a Geek thing