CG Substack Update: Widening the Scope
Adding new sections and materials, feel free to ignore...
Hello people. Thank you, to date, for checking in on this Substack for the Eighteen Bridges archive. It’s been fun to do and it’s gratifying to hear from people that they remember many of the really wonderful stories we published and are enjoying them again.
I am finding the Substack experience quite enjoyable so far and it seems like a good way to disseminate other thoughts and stories and ideas. So from this point forward I’m going to post things here and there. It might occasionally be new material or it might be posting an older article that has some relevance to current events. We shall see. I haven’t really thought it through too deeply and don’t intend to, so don’t hold me to anything!
You will always be free to drop away now that the 18B archive has been completed and that’ll be totally cool. But I’m also going to try to keep posting and we’ll see where that goes.
Thanks again for sharing the journey back in time for the 18B archive.
Cheers,
Curtis
Hi Joyce! Thanks for the note. I'll see if I can pull that piece out and post it individually. It was an interesting process getting Richard to contribute. I knew him simply from meeting him at book events when he came through Edmonton. We hit it off enough to stay in touch and when we started 18B I asked him if he'd contribute. He said, "Be happy to. I've got this essay sitting around. Maybe that'll work?" We didn't wait too long to say yes! The other funny story about that was when it came time to pay him, all invoices had to go through a labyrinthine University of Alberta process just to cut a cheque. It involved all kinds of signatures on a dizzying number of forms. I put the various steps in front of him in an email and he said, "Screw that, just sign them for me." So not only did we publish Richard Ford, but I pretended to be Richard Ford. :)
I always think about the piece in issue one or two, by Richard Ford,” On Re-reading”. Would love to see that one posted in its own or/and to hear how you know him and got that essay for 18b.