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Taking The Drop: Surfing Memoirs, Blogging And Identity, Lynda Hawryluk
Taking The Drop: Surfing Memoirs, Blogging And Identity, Lynda Hawryluk
Dr Lynda Hawryluk
Surfing evokes images of sun-bronzed stoners with little more going on in their heads than the search for the next wave. Oceans of saltwater drown out any other thoughts. However, the number of memoirs and books describing surfing as a spiritual journey, using the surfing lifestyle as a metaphor for a greater search for meaning, belie these stereotypes. As a blogger, I've long struggled with the urge to reveal too much of my real identity online, preferring to hide behind Ambrose Pierce-like observations. A recent conversion to the surfing world has led me on a journey of a very different …
The Sliding Scale Of Celebrity Authorship: Three Writers Face Their Adoring (And Otherwise) Public With Very Different Results, Lynda Hawryluk
The Sliding Scale Of Celebrity Authorship: Three Writers Face Their Adoring (And Otherwise) Public With Very Different Results, Lynda Hawryluk
Dr Lynda Hawryluk
This paper examines three authors’ lives in relation to their response to their status as ‘star authors’ (Moran, 2000). All three experienced a meteoric rise to fame as a result of a single work of thinly-veiled if not autobiographical fiction, with this work being widely acclaimed, translated into other languages and perhaps unsurprisingly in the current celebrity obsessed culture, Hollywood films. How these authors negotiated their fame and the subsequent praise and criticism that followed, is the focus of this paper. The three authors are Elizabeth Gilbert, Bret Easton Ellis and Harper Lee.