-=> Quoting Sondra Ball to Jim Casto <=-
 SB> I know of such people, but living, as I do, within a couple of hours
 SB> of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Baltimore, Maryland; I can find
 SB> almost anything.
 
 But are the bookstores in your area "genre-oriented"? In other words,
 because NAs are not a large portion of the population, you won't find
 books by or about NAs? (This was a comment about comparing Portland to
 Pittsburgh.)
 
 > an audio version. I raced up to the store and purchased a copy of Alexie
 > reading his own book!!! I see on the box that the tape also contains a
 > special 30-minute interview with Alexie about this book.
 SB> Hey, wonderful!  Maybe I can check at Borders and see if they have it.
 SB> If not, they will undoubtedly order it for me.
 
 It's great!!!  It is playing even as we speak. (And I haven't skipped
 ahead to hear the interview. )
 
 SB> poem. If I don't like anything about the poem, I won't critique it. 
 
 That right there is part of it. I suspect that "shows". It's kinda sorta
 like a movie critic. Whilst I give little credibility to any movie critic to
 know what I might like, I would be somewhat suspicious of a critic that only
 reviewed movies they liked. The other host is perhaps "seen" as being more
 "honest" which a lot of people have trouble dealing with.
 SB> But she is positive, too.  I think it's an image thing.  I think people
 SB> see the other host as being absolutely correct and totally
 SB> knowledgeable about poetry. I think it's partly because she only writes
 SB> about poetry on the conference, whereas I write about anything; so I'm
 SB> seen as human and fallible.
 In college, if a professor was always praising me with little negative to 
say,
 I would think they weren't doing their job. There is almost _always_ room 
or
 improvement, IMHO.
 Jim
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