{"id":411,"date":"2016-06-16T00:06:57","date_gmt":"2016-06-16T00:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=411"},"modified":"2017-06-26T21:34:21","modified_gmt":"2017-06-26T21:34:21","slug":"pat-conroy-literary-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2016\/06\/16\/pat-conroy-literary-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Pat Conroy Literary Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pat Conroy was one of the great novelists of the last half-century.<\/p>\n<p>Regular readers of this Not A Blog know what a huge fan of his work I am.   No, he did not write science fiction or fantasy&#8230; but (surprise!) despite my love for our genre, I read a lot of stuff outside of it.   And once I had sampled Pat Conroy, I read every book of his eagerly as soon as it came out.  THE PRINCE OF TIDES is probably his masterpiece, but I loved BEACH MUSIC and THE LORDS OF DISCIPLINE and THE GREAT SANTINI and THE WATER IS WIDE as well.   Oh, and his non-fiction memoir, MY LOSING SEASON, another engrossing read.<\/p>\n<p>The movies based on his books were pretty damned good as well, even if the film version of THE PRINCE OF TIDES did omit&#8230; well&#8230; the prince of tides.  SANTINI is the best of those.  Amazing performance by Robert Duvall, once of the best of his career.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of years ago, I had the honor of meeting Pat, and hosting him for an author event and booksigning at the Jean Cocteau Cinema.   It was a rare privilege, and one I will always remember, and I can&#8217;t tell you how thrilled I was to learn that he&#8217;d read and enjoyed my own books.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/361064_800.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>Pat passed away in March&#8230; but his books will live on, and so will his memory.<\/p>\n<p>In his memory, his family has now establishing a Pat Conroy Literary Center in his beloved home town of Beaufort, South Carolina.  You can read about it here:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/patconroyliterarycenter.org\/<\/p>\n<p>A worthy project, I think.  I&#8217;ll be donating.  I urge all of you who love good writing to do the same. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pat Conroy was one of the great novelists of the last half-century. Regular readers of this Not A Blog know what a huge fan of his work I am. No, he did not write science fiction or fantasy&#8230; but (surprise!) despite my love for our genre, I read a lot of stuff outside of it. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26,20,9,25],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":412,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions\/412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}