Feb 4, 2023
Alben Barkley and John Garner. On my knees in front of them.
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Alben Barkley and John Garner. On my knees in front of them.
Happy Birthday Vice President John Garner!
Perhaps reflecting his view of the vice presidency, John "Cactus Jack" Garner blows smoke rings in the DC air on this day eighty-one years ago. He was celebrating his birthday and considering his successes in the political arena. Referring to himself as the "spare tire of the government," Vice President Garner initially insisted to reporters that he was sixty-eight, only to concede that he was a year older when presented with a copy of a Congressional biographical dictionary. He observed, "by golly, I don't have time to keep up with these things."
The Vice President was in an especially jovial mood, feeling much better after having had two painful molars extracted. As for his health in general, he hoped "to be here when I'm seventy." Indeed, he would surpass that milestone by almost thirty years. Garner died in 1967 just shy of his ninety-ninth birthday.
Photographs from the Harris and Ewing Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
one of my fave german bands is breaking up (amicably) and I'm like damn I've only known you for like 3 years don't do this to me
left - Phillip Kalantzis Cope // right - John Garner
John Edmund Gardner (20 November 1926 – 3 August 2007) was an English writer of spy and thriller novels. He is best known for his James Bond continuation novels, but also wrote a series of Boysie Oakes books and three novels containing Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional villain, Professor Moriarty.
Art from KEEPING 007 ALIVE - CONVERSATIONS WITH JAMES BOND CONTINUATION AUTHORS by Mark Edlitz, illustrations by Pat Carbajal, cover by Sean Longmore
Ian Fleming's fourteen book cycle was just the beginning for Commander Bond.
From the 1960s to 2025 and beyond, continuation authors have taken that literary Bond baton forwards and brought 007 to new readers, new timelines, new adventures and new bookshelves.
From author Mark Edlitz comes KEEPING 007 ALIVE - CONVERSATIONS WITH JAMES BOND CONTINUATION AUTHORS.
It is a unique collection of interviews with some of those Bond authors - offering new and detailed insight into the creative minds who have taken up the spy mantle.
Authors Anthony Horowitz, Raymond Benson, Sebastian Faulks, Wiliam Boyd, Jeffery Deaver, Samantha Weinberg, Steve Cole, Kim Sherwood, and Charlie Higson have all gathered to lend Edlitz their thoughts, processes and impulses.
They discuss how they were chosen for the esteemed appointment, what makes them uniquely qualified, what are the creative challenges and triumphs of inheriting such a beloved character, how they updated Bond alongside Fleming's particular legacy, and what ingredients they bought to the literary Bond canon.
Bill Edison and John Garner photographed by Bob Mizer, 1950s
Just learned Jim Henson is making a movie based on John Gardner's Grendel.
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