January 07, 2008

NYRs: Scott Heim

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For serious, this will be the final installment of New Year’s Resolutions (but as evidenced by his videos which we posted some time ago, Mr. Heim is pretty popular on this blog). I thank all the authors, editors, publicists, and others who contributed to this exercise in sharing. Now these from Scott Heim, author of In Awe, Mysterious Skin, and forthcoming in March, We Disappear:

What was the best book of the year?
A couple of these may have actually been published late in 2006, but I’d have to say: Winter’s Bone, by Daniel Woodrell; The View From Castle Rock, by Alice Munro; Some Phantom/No Time Flat, by Stephen Beachy; and Charity Girl, by Michael Lowenthal. And just because I happen to share my life with one of these writers doesn’t mean I still don’t think it was one of the year’s best.

What was the best movie?
No Country for Old Men; The Lives of Others; The Diving Bell & the Butterfly. (And for very different reasons, I also really liked The Host and Knocked Up.)

What was the best song/album?
Okay, this is where I could list about 20 or 30. But here were some of my favorite albums, in no particular order: Radiohead, “In Rainbows”; The National, “Boxer”; Burial, “Untrue”; “Apparat, “Walls”; Band of Horses, “Cease to Begin”; Blonde Redhead, “23”; Ulrich Schnauss, “Goodbye”; The Mary Onettes, “The Mary Onettes”; Interpol, “Our Love to Admire”; Air Formation, “Daylight Storms”; The Twilight Sad, “Fourteen Autumns, Fifteen Winters”; The Field, “From Here We Go Sublime”; Crescent, “Little Waves”; and Bracken, “We Know About the Need”

Who was the person of the year?
Doris Lessing? Al Gore? Thom Yorke? Jonathan Papelbon?

What is your New Year’s resolution?
To make improvements on my house. To read many more books than I did in 2007. To finally learn some Spanish. To enjoy the publication of my book without freaking out too much. To start a new novel, or to go back to writing the occasional short story now and then.

Any predictions for 2008?
The Red Sox will win the World Series again.

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I have been waiting for this for so long, can’t wait to read the new book. I know it’s going to be amazing. Mr. Heim can do no wrong in my book.

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Glad that Scott H. picked Daniel Woodrell in his favorte books; I agree—he’s an American original. Actually, he and Scott both write about the beautiful darkness, or the dark beauty, of America’s heartland, which is too often overlooked.

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excellent can’t wait !!!

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When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

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Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

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There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

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Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren’t distracted by the total lack of content in your writing.

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Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.

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I’m all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let’s start with typewriters.

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Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.

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My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.

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Every moment of one’s existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.

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It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.

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Use what you have to run toward your best - that’s how I now live my life.

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Worries go down better with soup than without.

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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you’re scared to death.

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Try to put your happiness before anyone else’s, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.

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Sometimes you can’t see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.

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You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.

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The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

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Even the best of friends need time apart.

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There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don’t know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.

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Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.

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