Showing posts with label John Lennon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John Lennon. Show all posts

Thursday, May 08, 2008

A Great Interview with John Lennon


I posted a link to my column over at my online writers' workshop, Zoetrope, and a friend pointed me to a great interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono by Tariq Ali and Robin Blackburn in 1971. You can read the interview here or check out a print version in Tariq Ali's Streetfighting Years: An Autobiography of the Sixties.

John is very candid about being a Beatle, religion, politics, feminism and more!

Wednesday, May 07, 2008

John Lennon Ate Here

I'm a bit late with my announcement, but I wanted to let you know that my May column is up at the Erotic Readers and Writers Association--John Lennon Ate Here: Fabulous Feasts, Fertile Fantasies, and "Following the Pen." I was always a "John girl" (aren't all writers?) and, although I'm not a celebrity hound about it, I was pleased to discover I was having lunch at a restaurant in the countryside near Kyoto where John and Yoko had dined in 1977. Of course, I also talk about sex and the traditional Japanese style of essay writing. Best of all, there are lots of mouth-watering pictures of Japanese food of the sort John himself enjoyed....