What is this Foster Dickson guy like?
Foster Dickson is a writer, editor and teacher in Montgomery, Alabama. He is the author of three books: Kindling Not Yet Split (Court Street Press, 2002), I Just Make People Up: Ramblings with Clark Walker (NewSouth Books, 2009), and The Life and Poetry of John Beecher (Edwin Mellen Press, 2009), and the general editor of Treasuring Alabama's Black Belt (AUM/AHF, 2009).
A few of Foster's favorite books (in no particular order):
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Blue Highways by William Least-Heat Moon
Plainwater by Anne Carson
From Totems to Hip-Hip edited by Ishmael Reed
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe
For the Time Being by Annie Dillard
Sundog by Jim Harrison
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
The Haiku Year published by Soft Skull Press
Collected Poems, 1924-1974 by John Beecher
A few of Foster's favorite movies (in no particular order):
Easy Rider with Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper
Wild at Heart with Nicholas Cage and Laura Dern
Before Sunrise with Ethan Hawke and Julia Delpy
Roman Holiday with Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck
Suburbia directed by Penelope Spheeris
Slacker directed by Richard Linklater
Five Easy Pieces with Jack Nicholson
Stealing Beauty with Liv Tyler and Jeremy Irons
At Close Range with Sean Penn and Christopher Walken
Ruby in Paradise with Ashley Judd
City of Lost Children (French)
A few of Foster's favorite albums (in no particular order):
Music from the Big Pink by The Band
Harvest by Neil Young
Weld by Neil Young
Loose by Victoria Williams
Southern Harmony & Musical Companion by The Black Crowes
Blood on the Tracks by Bob Dylan
Highway 61 Revisited by Bob Dylan
Goo by Sonic Youth
American Beauty by The Grateful Dead
Transcendental Blues by Steve Earle
Trace by Son Volt
She Hangs Brightly by Mazzy Star
Electric by The Cult
The Stealing Beauty soundtrack
Wildflowers by Tom Petty
Hollywood Town Hall by The Jayhawks
Document by REM
A few of Foster's favorite TV shows (some no longer with us):
Northern Exposure
Beavis & Butthead
Ed
Twin Peaks
How I Met Your Mother
Saturday Night Live!
Meet the Press
A few of Foster's other favorite things:
watching the Auburn Tigers football games
working outside in the sun
sitting on the porch with a wheat beer, a Malbec, or a George Dickel on the rocks
loud music playing in the car
old clothes I've had a long time that fit really well
showing up on time
smoked gouda cheese
A few of Foster's least favorite things:
whining about something and doing nothing to change it
pop-country music, e.g. Faith Hill, Garth Brooks, Kenny Chesney
R&B singers with no real lyrics, just lots of vocal gymnastics
hats at the dinner table
Karl Rove and Steve Spurrier
liver
Foster's favorite quote:
"We're never ready for anything, but doing it makes us ready." - from the movie, Sybil.
Foster Dickson is a writer, editor and teacher in Montgomery, Alabama. He is the author of three books: Kindling Not Yet Split (Court Street Press, 2002), I Just Make People Up: Ramblings with Clark Walker (NewSouth Books, 2009), and The Life and Poetry of John Beecher (Edwin Mellen Press, 2009), and the general editor of Treasuring Alabama's Black Belt (AUM/AHF, 2009).
A few of Foster's favorite books (in no particular order):
A few of Foster's favorite movies (in no particular order):
A few of Foster's favorite albums (in no particular order):
A few of Foster's favorite TV shows (some no longer with us):
A few of Foster's other favorite things:
A few of Foster's least favorite things:
Foster's favorite quote:
"We're never ready for anything, but doing it makes us ready." - from the movie, Sybil.