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Salter: “I’ve made an effort to nurture the feminine in myself. I don’t mean overtly, but in terms of response to things. Perhaps that’s what we’re talking about. I am happy with my gender, but pure masculinity, which I have been exposed to a lot in life, is tedious and inadequate. It’s great to listen to men talk about sports or fights or war or even hunting sometimes, but the presence of the other, the presence of art and beauty, which crude masculinity seems to discount, is essential. Real civilization and real manhood seem to me to include those.”

Here’s a link to a Vogue article written after his death in 2015.
https://www.vogue.com/article/james-salter-tribute

I can’t remember when or how I first heard of James Salter. It might have been around that time. He was famously the ‘writer’s writer’s writer’. I tracked down some of his books and I of course me, being me, fell in love with him. He’s not been really easy to find - I was happy to find several of his books in Garrison Keillor’s St. Paul book store Common Good Books when my city son took me there on a train visit I made to him and his family. His collection of short stories Dusk and other stories is a book I tried to lend and ended up giving away. I remember reading it again the day before I lost it.

Last year’s Christmas present from farmer son was a ‘collection’ of four Salter books - bought on line. My books are in such disarray that I can’t be sure if they are ones I have or not - most are new. Solo Faces starts out with roofers on a church roof in Southern California, and leads to Yosimite and the Alps and back again. Burning the Days are recollections - not exactly memoir but views into the man - like Updike’s Self-Conscienceness and Maugham’s The Summing Up. They are what a writer wants to say about himself and his life. Then and There are travel writing.... don’t we all love Europe? At least the version of it that lives in our minds. Light Years is a novel about a marriage - and all the people included in it.

I would give up a lot of things before I’d give up Wikipedia. And you guys.

Test link:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/V3A0DH-rL-k

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