“We don’t need any more writers as solitary heroes. We need a heroic writers movement—assertive, militant, pugnacious.”

- Toni Morrison

via this fascinating article at Los Angeles Review of Books, about the archive of her rejection letters - not ones she received, ones she wrote when she worked as an editor at Random House 

Sterling Morrison, quoted in Rob Sheffield's Beatles book

I'm guessing the VU hated the Mothers ever since that period when the latter were based in NYC and playing on a weekly basis.  

It was kind of a battle of cools - but also between great music and shit music, the well and the ill conceived. 

 

 

C.S. Lewis

 

C.S. Lewis 

Or as David Crosby put it (twice on the same album)

 

Germaine Greer on Jimi Hendrix, Oz #30, 1970

Greer appears in this 1973 doc about Hendrix - about 59 mins in and sporadically after.

Snippets