Scout's Progress ... featured as a "forgotten classic"

[kinzel]

Julie Davis is a podcaster ... and her latest podcast features a number of chapters from Scout's Progress ... by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller. The podcast is "Forgotten Classics" and Episode 7 may be found at:

http://hcforgottenclassics.blogspot.com/

other authors featured to date include ...

* Charles Finger
* Georgette Heyer
* Shirley Jackson
* Thorne Smith

That's some company to be in, I think. Julie Davis does a wonderful job. Go listen.

Just in case you've been in the cabbage patch, we also have been benefiting from the skills of Sam Chupp ... who has taken on the very daunting task of trying to keep up with us as we write and post Fledgling. Missed it so far? Visit .... http://fledgling.fireheartfoundry.com/ ...and you'll find it.

Note: it feels strange to be author of a "forgotten classic". Really.

Comments

[keristor.livejournal.com]

I'm a little boggled by "Scout's Progress" being termed a "forgotten classic". A future 'classic' (I'll let you know in 20 years or so!) I'll admit, but hardly 'forgotten'. Georgette Heyer and the others I'll admit in that category.

[otaku-tetsuko.livejournal.com]

Just wanted to drop in to say how much fun it is to know you BESIDES through the writing!! You and KK1Raven are responsible for my newfound interest in birds, and you alone bear the responsibility for what may well turn into an obsession with lilies and spring bulbs. I like the way you and ROlanni spark off of each other in person and in print, and I like the way you cherish and tend those that you bring into the clan.

Thanks for much!

How many living authors of forgotten classics are there?

[mbarker.livejournal.com]

Just pondering the relationship between age and . . . shall we say the state of animation of the authors? Most classics are rather well-aged, which argues that the authors may have attained their apotheosis in fact as well as metaphor (you do realize that I can't use language like that in my day-to-day life, but it's fun when I can :-)

All hail the author of a forgotten classic, and cherish their memories of it (now does that mean that being recognized as a "forgotten classic" makes it an oxymoron?)

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks for the pointer! Julie Davis reads very well, and it's a delight to be able to sew while listening to one of my favorite stories.

Adrianne