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This blog is a series of copies or (if longer) links to relevant blog posts over at my main blog, Madam Mayo. Unless not. |
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| February
18, 2013 Just posted: "A Visit to Swan House" and reflections on literary travel writing in the digital age, my reading for PEN San Miguel in San Miguel de Allende, January 29, 2013. This makes the 10th podcast in the 24 podcast series.  |
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| January
7, 2013 Just posted: My October 2012 interview with painter Mary Baxter about her luminous landscapes in her Marfa, Texas studio. This is #9 in the 24 podcast series, "Marfa Mondays."  |
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November
6, 2012 New
podcast posted: A
Spell at Chinati Hot Springs. Elvis. The private art gallery.
Lithium. And best of all: no email. |
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 October
18, 2012Some news: I'll be reading from the work-in-progress, which now has the title World Waiting for a Dream: Travels in Far West Texas, Marfa, the Big Bend & Beyond, for PEN San Miguel in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, on January 29, 2012. For details, stay tuned. Better yet, join my mailing list for the (very) occasional newsletter. P.S. Several more podcasts are in line to be posted next month: Chinati Hotsprings, Simone Swan's Adobe Alliance, Mary Baxter, and more. |
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| July 23, 2012 Marfa Mondays Podcast #7: "We Have Seen the Lights" (A week late due to technical snafus. Ayyyy!) C.M. Mayo recounts personal experiences with the eerie phenomena of the Marfas Lights, also known as Marfa Ghost Lights; comments on some of the literature and research; and interviews some residents of the greater Big Bend region and Marfa. Listen in here. |
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| June 18,
2012 Marfa Mondays #6: Marfa's Moonlight Gemstones Now live: my podcast interview with Paul Graybeal, owner of Marfa's Moonlight Gemstones, the 6th is a series of 24 podcasts about Marfa, Texas and environs apropos of a book-in-progress (as yet untitled). It was no exaggeration for historian Walter Prescott Webb to describe the Big Bend region as "an earthwreck in which a great section of country was shaken down, turned over, blown up, and set on fire." In short, there is ample evidence of millions of years of dramatic geological activity, with the craggiest of mountains to rocks of all kinds, from mammoth piles of boulders to pebbles. In this interview with Paul Graybeal, owner of Marfa's magnet for rock hounds, learn about agates, thundereggs, and. . . . READ MORE |
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| May 28,
2012 The Marfa, Texas Chamber of Commerce: Why I Joined  Well, it's not 1996. That's when I started
writing Miraculous Air,
my travel memoir of Mexico's nearly 1,000 mile-long Baja California
peninsula, which was originally published by the University of
Utah Press in 2002 (now a Milkweed Editions paperback). I was
traveling and writing in the Anglo-American
tradition of Robert Byron (The Road to Oxiana), Frances
Calderon de la Barca (Life
in Mexico), Ian Frazier (Great Plains), Sara
Mansfield Taber (In Patagonia), V.S. Naipaul (A
Turn in the South; Among the Believers), and -- though with
a sight more depth into the actual nature, history and culture
of Mexico and Baja California -- John Steinbeck's The Log
from the Sea of Cortez (lovely book, but it mainly takes
place in his head whilst observing the shoreline from the boat).
I mean to say. . . . READ
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| May 21,
2012 Marfa Mondays #5: Cynthia McAlister: The Buzz on the Bees  Cynthia
McAlister is an expert on the bees of West Texas, and as those
of you who have been following this blog know, I'm crazy about
bees, so this interview is one I was especially delighted be
able to do. It was recorded in late January when I was traveling
in the area for my book (as yet untitled). I've been back since
and will be posting more podcasts-- they're scheduled for the
3rd Monday of every month through the end of 2013-- including
one on the remote and restful Chinati Hotsprings and an interview
with the owner of Marfa's fascinating Moonlight Gemstones. Stay
tuned.. . . READ
MORE |
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| April
16, 2012 Marfa Mondays #4: Avram Dumitrescu, An Artist in Alpine The monthly Marfa Mondays podcast is live: an interview with Avram Dumitrescu, an artist whose paintings have been featured in "Marfans: Art from the Plateau" at the Nancy Fyfe Cardozier Gallery in Odessa, and also showcased in Cenizo Journal. A native of the Channel Islands and raised in Belfast, Dumitrescu earned a bachelor's degree and Masters in Applied Arts from the University of Ulster at Belfast. He is married to journalist Megan Wilde. For more about Dumitrescu, and to view his portfolio, visit www.onlineavram.com. Recorded in late January 2012. (About 36 minutes) >>Click here to listen in.  |
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March 19, 2012 The Lost Colony refers to the
summer art colony at Sul Ross which began in 1932 and ended somewhat
mysteriously in 1950. Alpine is 30 minutes northeast of Marfa—
right next door. Mary Bones explains the inspiration .. READ MORE |
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| February 20,
2012 Marfa Mondays # 2: Charles Angell in the Big Bend Now live: The Marfa Mondays podcast, this month, an interview with Big Bend expert Charles Angell, which took place at the Hoodoos in Big Bend State Park, right on the Rio Grande, and in Fort Leaton, near Presidio, Texas. . . READ MORE |
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| January 16, 2012 Marfa Mondays #1: Introduction and Welcome Today, Monday, January 16, 2012 is the launch of the Marfa Mondays Podcasting Project: Exploring Marfa, Texas and Environs in 24 Podcasts, one podcast per month through 2013. This project is lieu of (though maybe in addition to) writing magazine articles as I proceed with a book project the title of which... well, it's way too early to say much about that. Suffice it to say it will be a travel memoir about West Texas. . . . READ MORE |
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 This blog is a series of copies or (if longer) links to relevant blog posts over at my main blog, Madam Mayo. Unless not. |
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| November
6, 2012New
podcast posted: A
Spell at Chinati Hot Springs. Elvis. The private art gallery.
Lithium. And best of all: no email. |
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| October
18, 2012 Some news: I'll be reading from the work-in-progress, which now has the title World Waiting for a Dream: Travels in Far West Texas, Marfa, the Big Bend & Beyond, for PEN San Miguel in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, on January 29, 2012. For details, stay tuned. Better yet, join my mailing list for the (very) occasional newsletter. P.S. Several more podcasts are in line to be posted next month: Chinati Hotsprings, Simone Swan's Adobe Alliance, Mary Baxter, and more. |
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| July 23, 2012 Marfa Mondays Podcast #7: "We Have Seen the Lights" (A week late due to technical snafus. Ayyyy!) C.M. Mayo recounts personal experiences with the eerie phenomena of the Marfas Lights, also known as Marfa Ghost Lights; comments on some of the literature and research; and interviews some residents of the greater Big Bend region and Marfa. Listen in here. |
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| June 18,
2012 Marfa Mondays #6: Marfa's Moonlight Gemstones Now live: my podcast interview with Paul Graybeal, owner of Marfa's Moonlight Gemstones, the 6th is a series of 24 podcasts about Marfa, Texas and environs apropos of a book-in-progress (as yet untitled). It was no exaggeration for historian Walter Prescott Webb to describe the Big Bend region as "an earthwreck in which a great section of country was shaken down, turned over, blown up, and set on fire." In short, there is ample evidence of millions of years of dramatic geological activity, with the craggiest of mountains to rocks of all kinds, from mammoth piles of boulders to pebbles. In this interview with Paul Graybeal, owner of Marfa's magnet for rock hounds, learn about agates, thundereggs, and. . . . READ MORE |
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| May 28,
2012 The Marfa, Texas Chamber of Commerce: Why I Joined Well, it's not 1996. That's when I started
writing Miraculous Air,
my travel memoir of Mexico's nearly 1,000 mile-long Baja California
peninsula, which was originally published by the University of
Utah Press in 2002 (now a Milkweed Editions paperback). I was
traveling and writing in the Anglo-American
tradition of Robert Byron (The Road to Oxiana), Frances
Calderon de la Barca (Life
in Mexico), Ian Frazier (Great Plains), Sara
Mansfield Taber (In Patagonia), V.S. Naipaul (A
Turn in the South; Among the Believers), and -- though with
a sight more depth into the actual nature, history and culture
of Mexico and Baja California -- John Steinbeck's The Log
from the Sea of Cortez (lovely book, but it mainly takes
place in his head whilst observing the shoreline from the boat).
I mean to say. . . . READ
MORE |
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| May 21,
2012 Marfa Mondays #5: Cynthia McAlister: The Buzz on the Bees Cynthia
McAlister is an expert on the bees of West Texas, and as those
of you who have been following this blog know, I'm crazy about
bees, so this interview is one I was especially delighted be
able to do. It was recorded in late January when I was traveling
in the area for my book (as yet untitled). I've been back since
and will be posting more podcasts-- they're scheduled for the
3rd Monday of every month through the end of 2013-- including
one on the remote and restful Chinati Hotsprings and an interview
with the owner of Marfa's fascinating Moonlight Gemstones. Stay
tuned.. . . READ
MORE |
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| April
16, 2012 Marfa Mondays #4: Avram Dumitrescu, An Artist in Alpine The monthly Marfa Mondays podcast is live: an interview with Avram Dumitrescu, an artist whose paintings have been featured in "Marfans: Art from the Plateau" at the Nancy Fyfe Cardozier Gallery in Odessa, and also showcased in Cenizo Journal. A native of the Channel Islands and raised in Belfast, Dumitrescu earned a bachelor's degree and Masters in Applied Arts from the University of Ulster at Belfast. He is married to journalist Megan Wilde. For more about Dumitrescu, and to view his portfolio, visit www.onlineavram.com. Recorded in late January 2012. (About 36 minutes) >>Click here to listen in. |
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|
March 19, 2012 The Lost Colony refers to the
summer art colony at Sul Ross which began in 1932 and ended somewhat
mysteriously in 1950. Alpine is 30 minutes northeast of Marfa—
right next door. Mary Bones explains the inspiration .. READ MORE |
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| February 20,
2012 Marfa Mondays # 2: Charles Angell in the Big Bend Now live: The Marfa Mondays podcast, this month, an interview with Big Bend expert Charles Angell, which took place at the Hoodoos in Big Bend State Park, right on the Rio Grande, and in Fort Leaton, near Presidio, Texas. . . READ MORE |
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| January 16, 2012 Marfa Mondays #1: Introduction and Welcome Today, Monday, January 16, 2012 is the launch of the Marfa Mondays Podcasting Project: Exploring Marfa, Texas and Environs in 24 Podcasts, one podcast per month through 2013. This project is lieu of (though maybe in addition to) writing magazine articles as I proceed with a book project the title of which... well, it's way too early to say much about that. Suffice it to say it will be a travel memoir about West Texas. . . . READ MORE |
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