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So There You Are The Selected Prose of Glenn Brown Edited by Paul Ruffin |
Usually funny, sometimes tender, sometimes penetratingly judgmental, Glenn Brown writes a sparkling prose about politics and about people in and about small towns scattered across East Texas.
Most of these pieces are derived from columns Brown wrote for The Huntsville Item; several of the pieces focus on Brown's experiences in a Korean POW camp, after the downing of a B-29 on which he was a radio operator.
From "Dark View of the U.S. from the Farm":
A citizenry may be manipulated by laws and regulations made then published in an obscure journal government knows the people will not see. This invites new violations contributing to greater lawlessness, but government nonetheless declares its new rules essential to good order and prosperity.
We have seen dissembling growing well in democracy's soil.
Even if all men were not created equal it wouldn't matter much in a mature democracy. Legislation is soon enacted ordaining a drab sameness easily labeled equality. This product has been found an acceptable substitute by the people if given a good press.
Fortunately for the public peace, the great body of people, having domicile and full bellies, are generally content. We have observed the same in the local cattle.>p? Merely observing the United States from the farm, we believe we now understand that the people must better organize themselves as a counterweight to their fattening governments. Cattle, having been found good to eat and easily confined and milked, have lost this option.
"I've never read a columnist capable of more entertaining prose than Glenn Brown. No matter what his subject, you find yourself marveling at this man's way with words, his ability to turn a phrase. Nobody seems to be able to tell me where he got it from, but he sure as hell has it."—Paul Ruffin, Director of Texas Review Press
The late GLENN BROWN, retired from journalism at Sam Houston State University, wrote columns for papers in Elkhart and Huntsville. A POW for two years in North Korea, after his release Brown returned to Texas and married his wife Norma. Mrs. Brown currently lives in Huntsville.
So There You Are
ISBN 1-881515-11-7 cloth $30.00
ISBN 1-881515-12-5 paper $20.00
6x9. 280 pp.
Texana. Military History. Korean War.
Literary Nonfiction. Western Writing and Criticism.
Publication Date: March 1998.
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