{"id":874,"date":"2013-01-27T16:20:58","date_gmt":"2013-01-27T23:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jessamyn.com\/journal\/?p=874"},"modified":"2013-01-27T16:21:44","modified_gmt":"2013-01-27T23:21:44","slug":"a-few-words-from-the-other-jessamyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/2013\/01\/a-few-words-from-the-other-jessamyn","title":{"rendered":"a few words from the other jessamyn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<em>I hate to hear myself. I never listen to an interview. I don\u2019t sound like the person I think I am<\/em>.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211; Jessamyn West <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/3546\/the-art-of-fiction-no-67-jessamyn-west\">interviewed for the Paris Review<\/a>, 1977<\/p>\n<p>Totally forgot one of the things I wanted to add last time I typed in this box. WNYC has an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnyc.org\/series\/archives-and-preservation\/\">Archives and Preservation department<\/a>. They got a grant. They are putting their old stuff on the air and online. I think I&#8217;ve mentioned in the past how I like Jessamyn West&#8217;s writing and how I&#8217;ve always imagines she would have been a neat person to know. She liked writing in bed, she didn&#8217;t suffer fools gladly, her books had compelling and interesting female (and male) characters and she always looked snappy in photographs. I&#8217;ve read a lot by her&#8211;she sent me a few cards as part of a &#8220;write a letter to someone famous&#8221; assignment I had in elementary school&#8211;but never heard her voice. Here is a speech she gave at a Book and Authors Luncheon in 1960: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnyc.org\/blogs\/neh-preservation-project\/2013\/jan\/16\/jessamyn-west\/\">Jessamyn West on an Author&#8217;s Responsibility to Her Readers <\/a>. Ignore the photo of her, it&#8217;s from fifteen years earlier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/2013\/01\/a-few-words-from-the-other-jessamyn\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to a few words from the other jessamyn\"><p>&#8220;I hate to hear myself. I never listen to an interview. I don\u2019t sound like the person I think I am.&#8221; &#8211; Jessamyn West interviewed for the Paris Review, 1977 Totally forgot one of the things I wanted to add last time I typed in this box. WNYC has an Archives and Preservation department. They [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[83,531,4,453],"class_list":["post-874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","tag-jessamyn","tag-jessamynwest","tag-me","tag-writing","h-entry","hentry"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=874"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":876,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions\/876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}