Ask the Author: C.H. Lawler
“ Let me tell you a story about two people in Louisiana in 1965 who fell in love when everyone around them told them they shouldn't. And how it changed everything.”
C.H. Lawler
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C.H. Lawler
Hi Sherrie. I have an apartment in New Orleans and spend a lot of time there, but I was raised in Caddo Parish and live in Baton Rouge now. Thanks for asking!
C.H. Lawler
Thank you, Susan. I grew up in Shreveport and remember (vaguely) a man who I believe was blind, who managed a kiosk in the lobby of the Caddo Courthouse. I don't remember his name, if I ever knew it, but he was either blind or handicapped in some way.
C.H. Lawler
I'd be happy to, John. I'll send you an email.
C.H. Lawler
I read a quote from Faulkner on writing that said always quit when you're hot, that is, when you have a little more to write. I've found that this helps. I also think that reading for fun tends to help unlock things.
C.H. Lawler
It's a great way to express yourself. Sometimes things come up to the surface of you that you had know idea were in you.
C.H. Lawler
Read, read, read.
C.H. Lawler
A novel set in Shreveport in the 1930s.
C.H. Lawler
Read, especially about history. History can seem bland until you realize that there were millions of people who lived it, who had to cope with it. And you and I all had ancestors who were there.
C.H. Lawler
Hard to say. It may have been one of the old Debbie Reynolds Tammy and the Bachelor movies. Also stories from my wife's family, and things my daddy said. A lot of my daddy.
Dawn
Yes, love that song ! I watched the movies with my neighbor as a young teen . Her name was Tammy. She was older than me and I thought she was the grea
Yes, love that song ! I watched the movies with my neighbor as a young teen . Her name was Tammy. She was older than me and I thought she was the greatest! Our Mom's were best friends . We would pile up in her Mom's bed and watch those old movies with popcorn . I was so young. When she married later I was her only maid of honor at 18 years old and it made me feel so special. Yeah ! Love aches much worse than the flu ! You cry and cry until you can't breathe and then gasp and cry again as though life will never be the same again and it is not . Until the next time and it still hurts sometimes even worse , if that is possible , depending on the circumstances . When you said you were writing your next book about Shreveport, you clicked with me again. I am a Air Force Brat ! I was born in the hospital at Barksdale AFB in Shreveport, LA. Lived there the first four years of my childhood. My Mama's home is here in Oxford, MS . She was actually born and lived most of her years in Tula, MS about 15 miles outside of Oxford. We are distant relatives to Larry Brown . Larry is the Southern Grit Writer most famous for JOE, Big Bad Love , and Father and Son, etc... I came here every Summer and then I have attended Ole Miss through three degrees and half my Graduate in English !!! I am an unemployed ENGLISH teacher just now !!! HA!!! Just can't keep me out of school !! Have you read Tom Franklin and his wife Beth Ann Fennelly's last Book A Tillted World about the Flood of 1909 that you have listed to read ? They teach on campus . I suppose you probably already know all of this !!! Well , thanks for responding . I hope to keep in touch . Dawn
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Jan 06, 2015 07:45PM · flag
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I was born Shreveport, too, at the Schumpert Sanitarium (sounds like where you'd go for TB, doesn't it?) I went to school at Northwood High, but I alw
I was born Shreveport, too, at the Schumpert Sanitarium (sounds like where you'd go for TB, doesn't it?) I went to school at Northwood High, but I always liked the kids who went to Parkway, which was the high school for the airbase. They were always so friendly and outgoing, probably because they had to be since they moved around so much.
The book about the flood sounds interesting! Natural disasters are the flashpoints for a good many human dramas.
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Jan 06, 2015 08:27PM · flag
The book about the flood sounds interesting! Natural disasters are the flashpoints for a good many human dramas.
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Jan 06, 2015 08:27PM · flag
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