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| Name: | Ian Day |
| E-mail address: | if102@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | My wife and I met while students at the University of Iowa in the seventies. We had just started seeing each other non-exclusively when she told me that her friend Marsha had set her up on an informal date with a writer by the name of Frederick Exley. She said they went out for drinks and had a good time but that it was pretty much a one shot deal. Subsequently she read A Fan's Notes and realized how brilliant he was. And I went from being a jealous new boyfriend to an unabashed fan. |
| Name: | Norma Goodman |
| E-mail address: | tgoodma1@nycap.rr.com |
| Comments: | Yes, this was Fred - but one thing is missing in the life of this man - his brother Bill was married for many years early in his life to another woman from Watertown, NY. Matter of fact for over eight years. Bill joined the service and a divorce followed many years later. Fred was very friendly with her and met her many times in friendship. Yes,I am still alive! |
| Name: | mary |
| E-mail address: | jwsmrs2@suddenlink.net |
| Comments: | I have four first editions of Fred's trilogy books. One is autograpth ed by Fred. I have many articles of a varity of information about Fred and his history from the Watertown Daily Times newspaper. If you wish to e-ail me about any information concerning this subject, please use the above e-mail address of what you might wish to inquire about!! |
| Name: | Ross |
| Comments: | I worked for his brother Bill in the Army at the end in Honolulu so "Last notes from Home" has a resonance. Much that I have read concerning Bill Exley rings true and makes me think the characterizations of "Farquarson III" and Seamus O'Twoomey are dead on accurate of alive or used to be living people. I am now reading his "a Fans Notes" a "fictional memoir" good read and I think mostly non-fiction account of his life. "Pages from a Cold Island" is next. I am glad to have finally made his literary acquaintance. |
| Name: | eric zabriskie |
| E-mail address: | eiz@uchicago.edu |
| Comments: | I am currently reading A Fan's Notes, I am only halfway through but already I find the prose incredible and the revelations, albeit sometimes contained in a line or two, staggering. I was born and raised in Watertown and then moved to Chicago for school. I graduated from W.H.S. in 2001, and it took the University of Chicago Litterati to introduce me to Exley. I was ashamed, not for myself, but for my hometown that should be doing more to preserve the memory of such a sensitive and perceptive human being. I aim to make sure this book is mentioned in every senior WHS english class, all my friends are currently reading it. Where is Fred buried by the way? I now live in Rochester and would like to visit. |
| Name: | John Left |
| E-mail address: | john_left_field@yahoo.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://johnleftfield.blogspot.com |
| Comments: | PAGES FROM A COLD ISLAND is one of the great "lost" books of 20th Century American lit. It rivals A FAN'S NOTES for classic status. Back in print briefly in the late 1980s, when Exley published his last book, it's now unavailable. Scour your local library for a copy. It's worth the search! |
| Name: | Mark Fleming |
| E-mail address: | revmfleming@comcast.net |
| Comments: | I had never heard of Fred until just over three weeks ago when I spotted A FAN'S NOTES at a book fair and read the endpapers. I thought the read would be a real tonic to me, so grabbed it up and devoured it within days. Stunned...just stunned. I've got to read it again, to read his other books, to read the bio, let it all wash through, let the tonic do its work and then write a further apprecation. I'm 54, never met Fred, but I KNOW this guy and he KNOWS ME! Stunned...just stunned. Mark |
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| Comments: | Too bad all of this JUNK is on this site now. If you scroll down far enough, you will find some very interesting notes about Fred from his FANS |
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| Name: | Dave Meyer |
| E-mail address: | dmeyer1@rochester.rr.com |
| Comments: | I'm a fan of Fred's, and I doubt that that I could use the first name of Faulkner or Hemingway in the same spirit. Fred just grabs you in the gut. And, for anyone blessed to have a fist edition, keep and protect it. Here's the latest (12/2005) value and description from Bookfinder.com:
EXLEY, Frederick. A Fan's Notes: A Fictional Memoir. New York: Harper & Row, (1968). Octavo, original half purple cloth, original dust jacket. $1750. First edition of Exley's first and most famous book, inscribed on the title page, "Sincerely, Fred Exley." "What a piece of work he was!" wrote critic Jonathan Yardley of Frederick Exley; his semi-autobiographical Fan's Notes is one of "the literary monuments of its time and place." To Robert Penn Warren, Exley's classic story of a fan's ... $1,750.00 |
| Name: | David Gotham |
| E-mail address: | dgotham@netzero.net |
| Comments: | He was a man, a myth and ledged to me. growing up in Watertown a generation after Fred I can remember the controversy when his first book came out and everyone running down to Robinsons bookstore downtown to get there copy and read it and to see what characters in that book could be recognized as reality. My mother went to school with Fred and I grew up down the street from his younger sister. I read a fans notes from home while in high school and now have a first addition copy that I cherish.
For us that have grown up in watertown he has captured a slice of watertown and growing up in the forties and forever placed it in a great piece of literature. Fred I never got to meet you but if I did i would just like to have said Thanks and you have made me a fan. we the second generation of watertown folks are so proud of you.-Job well done |
| Name: | Paul Scanlon |
| E-mail address: | scanbrk@aol.com |
| Comments: | Hi Frances--
It's amazing that I just discovered this website. I was re-reading Fred's appreciation of the Lion's Head, which brought on a rush of good memories from San Francisco to Giants Stadium to the Village to fishing for northern pike in Alex Bay. And it took all that to get me to Google! But it was great to find this site and read that people are still discovering Fred's work. All the best-- Paul Scanlon |
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| E-mail address: | suzannep@rochester.rr.com |
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| Comments: | A friend stopped by this evening, after having spent a few days at a business expo in Boston. He mentioned that one of the people he met at the expo...after learning my friend has Watertown/Alexandria Bay ties etc...started talking about a wonderful book that my friend just had to read. And, what a coincidence!!!!! it was "A Fan's Notes", a book by a man my husband (the Counselor) and I dearly loved. Having been awakened numerous times, over the years, by calls from Freddy at 3 or 4 a.m....just wanting to talk...plus all of the other fond memeories I have of him.....I still miss him and greatly appreciated knowing that there are other people...who never even had the pleasure of meeting him...who miss him too. |
| Name: | Frances |
| Comments: | Honey Graf,
Thank you for visiting Fred's website. It is quite interesting, isn't it? So nice to read the "Fans' Notes"! I saw your sister and we plan on getting together this summer for lunch. It would be nice if you could make it as well. |
| Name: | helliond |
| Comments: | What's even more interesting is that my Grandmother's (Fred's Mother's)name was Charlotte Exley!
Fred's sister and family visit this site often and love reading the comments about Fred. Thank you all for taking the time to remember him. |
| Name: | Charlotte Exley |
| Comments: | Wow i cant believe there are other Exleys in the world especially famous ones. This is really interesting info! |
| Name: | Honey Graf |
| E-mail address: | cmccauslin@msn.com |
| Comments: | Hi Frances;
I am just visiting the website. You know me well and the family. |
| Name: | Honey Graf |
| E-mail address: | cmccauslin@msn.com |
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| Comments: | Who? Who?Who? BY! BY! |
| Name: | Robert R. Ferguson |
| E-mail address: | rrfmentor@aol.com |
| Comments: | Had the occasion to knew briefly, Fred, when at Iowa City but have lost track. How exactly did he die? |
| Name: | Paul |
| E-mail address: | hcmn@netscape.net |
| Comments: | Exley died in 1992 in Watertown, N.Y. |
| Name: | Erik Ahrné |
| E-mail address: | ahrne@colorado.edu |
| Comments: | Hi!
What do you know about Mr Exley's death? My friend had a long conversation with a homeless person in Boulder who claimed he's the author Frederick Exley. /Erik |
| Name: | PJ |
| E-mail address: | gormaniawv@aol.com |
| Comments: | My father, 86, is dying slowly of cancer, is becoming immobile, and is reading to keep his mind occupied. He just finished the 2nd in the Fan's Notes triology and is enjoying the books so much. He's lucky (as am I) that his brain is nearly as sharp today at 86 as it was in the past...probably more sharp since he stopped drinking vodka almost a yr ago. He's an Exley kind of guy in many ways. These books trandscend age. |
| Name: | ThiS |
| E-mail address: | only200yen@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | Best damn book I ever read, and I am now in the process of reading it again. |
| Name: | Bob Diamond |
| E-mail address: | bob_diamond@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | Exley's A Fan's Notes is certainly one of the finest American novels of the1960's along with Doctorow's Book of Daniel and Percy's The Last Gentlemen. |
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I was twenty-years-old, a sophmore at the University of Wisconsin, when my older brother, just back from New York, urged me to read "A Fan's Notes." I remember reading it in a laundromat near Mifflin Street where I threw all of my clothes into one wash and stole peaks at a beautiful blonde girl who never caught on to the fact that I was practically stalking her. I remember laughing out loud at points and choking back tears at others. I had big dreams then. Who didn't. I always hoped Exley would make peace with his success, that there would be other books equal to his first, that he would not die a drunk; the simple-minded desires common to any fan. I guess I was looking for a happy ending, even though Exley wrote and lived tragedy. Reading "A Fan's Note's" is like standing between two mirrors. You see your own image reflected over and over, and yet, you are humbled by the simple fact that you are not Exley. He was an American original, like Charlie Parker, like Lenny Bruce, like Jack Kerouac...America just needs a bit more time to reflect on his work. |
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| Comments: | I first read A Fan's Notes when I was in college at St. Lawrence University in the late seventies. I loved it and went on to read the other two books (Pages from A Cold Island & Last Notes From Home). While the first book is better, I still enjoyed the other two very much. I live in upstate New York and have spent some time around Alex Bay/Watertown/Clayton. I have visited some of the places in Exley's novels. I think Exley is one of those writer's whose reputation will grow as time passes. The tragedy (one at least) is that there were only three books. His novels are so excellent that reading them you feel like you knew him or
something of him. I have never seen film or tape of him and I wonder what he was like. Damn, he wrote well. |
| Name: | JWOBNEB |
| E-mail address: | wobneb_@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | I just finished Yardley's bio which was interesting but seemed limited (it appears intentionally so.) I was looking for more about Exley's work itself.
I first read A Fan's Notes 30 years ago at the U of Wisconsin-Madison in an Englsih seminar devoted to confessional novels. All Exley's work has fit the confessional pattern. But more significantly they belong in an American tradition (which includes Henry Miller) prophesied by Emerson in the 19th century: "These novels will will give way, by and by, to diaries or autobiographies--captivating books, if only a man knew how to choose among what he calls experience, and how to record truth truly." I have always believed that Exley, particularly in A Fan's Notes, knew how to both choose the artistically appropriate experiences and how to record truth truly, even if meant a degree of fictionalizing. |
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| Name: | jerry sullivan |
| E-mail address: | jsullivan@buffnews.com |
| Comments: | A friend from college, Cal Fussman, sent me a scrap of paper sometime in the late 1970s. It simply said, "Read A Fan's Notes by Fred Exley, greatest book written by an American". It might have been a tad too heavy an endorsement, but the book is up there. Cal, by the way, is now a writer for Esquire. I've read the book three or four times and given it to countless friends, including one of the previous posters, Charles Burns. |
| Name: | Chris Anderson |
| E-mail address: | crickwall@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | I think I agree with the signer of this DreamBook who noted what an unsettling read "Fan's Notes" is............and I'm not even out of Chapter One. Damn, maybe I'm still not ready to read Ex!
I just now originally went searching for a photo of Mr. Exeley for purchase or downloading, --I suppose for my own little Memorial---and found myself here. wow. I have enjoyed reading the intelligent commentary. I would contribute more, but it seems like awful lot of work (!). Cheers to all. |
| Name: | charles burns |
| E-mail address: | chazbodine@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | Having discovered Ex only in the last few years I am still awash in the glow of his work. I view A Fan's Notes as a gift to be shared with those worthy of its greatness. The second two in the trilogy are somewhat disappointing in that the humility and self-depracating humor of Notes gives way to a different persona one fueled by heaping praise and the stature of a successful writer. I liked the pitiful and hapless version's successful rendering of Notes over the latter persona's somewhat smug presentation of his world.
Ultimately it comes down to the fact that Ex had achieved acceptance (finally) and the need to impress (his ghosts/Wilson??) was sated. Live on Ex in the minds and hearts of your Fans. out |
| Name: | Alexandra Exley Mowers |
| E-mail address: | akmowers@aol.com |
| Comments: | What a joke ... Francis and Kurt you BOTH know that there was NO headstone at Fred's site until last year! Oh, excuse me it only took you 9 years to get a headstone. You should all be ashamed of yourselves.
Then claiming Fred and Pam had a relationship... Fred had not spoke to Pamela in years until he was dying. Get your facts straight. You and the rest of the family are a laughing stock around the bay and amongst Fred's close friends. They, as I, all know the true family and how all of you have tried riding on the fame Fred achieved. If you want to glorify Pamela and her mother(Francine) I think it's funny. This is a woman who has been divorced from Fred for over 30 years and has EXLEY 1 put on her license. Your all the same! I certainly do not need to justify my relationship with my FATHER to anyone in the family. You should all pat yourselves on the back for welcoming Pamela so kindly to the family and making sure she is included in all of Fred's tributes ...I mean she saw he twice in 20 years that's a strong father/daughter bond! I too visit Fred's grave throughout the year, (I live 145 miles away) and you should all be commended for the wonderful stone that took 9 years to have made!!! NICE JOB... |
| Name: | Matt |
| E-mail address: | mateus2000@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | My intro to Exley is strange:
Someone gave me Pages From a Cold Island. I don't remember who or when (probably my mom bought it on sale somewhere as it has a black line on the bottom). Anyway, I'm reading it now and enjoying it greatly. This tragic biography type, though, I can only take so much of. I did a search for Exley and found this page. I didn't even know if he was alive or dead until I did the search. After reading many entries here, I'll probably pick up A Fan's notes... |
| Name: | Mark Sherry |
| E-mail address: | msherry@governanceinstitute.com |
| Comments: | I’m a native of Gouverneur, NY, one of the three little Upstate NY towns that Fred morphed into Glacial Falls (the others being Clayton and Indian River). I actually have a copy of the 1963 Deanonian, the school yearbook, with a dapper young Fred and his colleagues at Gouverneur High School (GHS), some of whom became teachers of mine in the 1970s.
I came to A Fan’s Notes through my brother Mike, who was journeying on a friend’s davenport in his own fashion in the late ‘70s. His friend, an English teacher at GHS, had the book but had not yet read it. My brother picked it up one day and realized this unsung gem in his hands was pure genius. He raved about it. Bill, this teacher friend of ours, then read it and recalled that Exley might have actually been his sophomore year homeroom teacher (unconfirmed and Bill has now, sadly, left us and joined Fred and many other great minds for ethereal drinks, I like to think). My brother and Bill ranted about Mr. Blue and Deborah’s great jaw and the Counselor the whole summer of 1980. Within a year or two I read it for the first of what would be at least ten times (so far). I just started reading it again last week after my father sent a two-part article by John Golden marking the 10th anniversary of Fred’s passing (I live in San Diego now). The articles appeared in the Watertown Daily Times, the paper often referred to by Fred in his books and where I kept track of his whereabouts whenever possible before his death. I’ve got a bunch of clipped articles from the Times. I thank Mr. Golden for keeping Fred in the news over the years. All through the ‘80s and ‘90s I read the Exley trilogy—A Fan’s Notes many times, Pages from a Cold Island perhaps three times (leading me to Edmund Wilson later), and Last Notes from Home twice. I’ve lent Fan's Nots to dozens of thankful friends. I felt that anguish and alcoholism in my own life, and I get so damned homesick when I read those passages from the North Country. I know Watertown pretty well and am very familiar with Washington Street, the Square, and I know now many of those haunts in A Fan’s Notes are just that now. Around 1985 I went to hear him read at St. Lawrence University. I had then only a first edition of A Fan’s Notes I’d borrowed from the Potsdam State library. I brought it with me and he kindly signed it: Sincerely, Fred Exley. I kept it. That is, until I lent it to a friend in 1988 and never got it back. I did replace the "borrowed" book at the library, by the way. Hint to all: Don’t lend copies of your favorite book signed by your hero. It really is as bad an idea as it sounds. My deepest regret is that I didn’t go over to Alex Bay and “bug him” when I had the chance. My father, now a retired bricklayer, worked with some of Fred’s old high school buddies in the late ‘80s. They said then that you could usually find him at Mike’s Dockside. They said he stayed upstairs and that the bartender (Mike?) would bang on a water pipe that led upstairs to let Fred know he had a phone call. Two summers ago I was home for a visit and ended up at the Bay. I went to Mike’s and sat at the end of the bar and had some vodkas. There it was: the fabled water pipe that went up through the ceiling. All I wanted was to give it a few good raps and see a bleary-eyed Exley come downstairs, take the call, and sit down next to me for a few north country moments that would have given me my chance to be the willing, humble fan. |
| Name: | J M Servais |
| E-mail address: | lafleurjs@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | Take back my first paragraph...just read 'Misfit' by Yardley..a must read for any Exley fan... |
| Name: | jeannette servais |
| E-mail address: | lafleurjs@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | No wonder the guy drank...his family can't get together enough to bury him as he wished.
And maybe that time in the tavvies is the best time of all. Doesn't one of his quotes talk about 'this fame, so sought after, simply result in hippies with backpacks knocking at the door..' Where drinking in his favorite pub..talking with former students, other writers...was when he felt alive. Writing itself is not really a good time...it is a process needed to achieve....what? His first book was from the gut, and needed to be purged from him...the other two were for the money. Still good, but done for survival money....drinking money. |
| Name: | WHO |
| Comments: | WHO, WHO, WHO IS MR. BLUE? |
| Name: | Bill LaLonde |
| Comments: | After 9 years of parochial school in the small village of Clayton, N.Y., I moved up to the High School to begin ninth grade in the fall of 1963. My first period was English, taught by none other than Fred Exley. He was a good teacher, who cared about his students. Nothing specific stands out about that year. Certainly, nobody had any idea that he would be writing a book around that time. But my one memorable moment with Fred Exley came much later. It was a rainy night in October 1985 in the nearby village of Alexandria Bay. I stopped into a bar for a drink. I had a first cousin who would often run into Fred in "the Bay". And lo and behold, at that bar stood Fred Exley. I had not seen him in over 20 years (he did not stay long at Clayton Central High School), but I immediately recognized him. He was in conversation with a few other people at the bar. I ordered a drink and waited. During a break in his conversation, I said - "Excuse me Mr. Exley, maybe you remember me, I was ...". Before I could finish the sentence, he was pounding me on the back saying "great to see you Billy, call me Fred". For the rest of the night, I stood right next to him (we didn't sit) at the bar, having one drink right after another. He was drinking vodka and grapefruit juice & I was having gin with the same mixer. We talked about everything and had a great time. He seemed to genuinely care about what had happened in my life. He was supposed to play golf the next morning with a couple of guys at the bar, so that they kept giving him the business about him being tardy at times. Fred just laughed at them and said "you want another one?". We stayed until the bar closed. We then shook hands, pounded each other on the back and parted ways. We never saw each other again. I often wondered if he made the tee-off time at the golf course the next morning. |
| Name: | Mr. Blue |
| Comments: | Frances,
Beg your pardon, but how can you state the following? "Alexandra Mowers, not being part of the family". She's Fred's daughter! Mr. Blue |
| Name: | Kurt Brown |
| E-mail address: | PNarcII@aol.com |
| Comments: | Yes, it is good to see there are people out there who truly appreciated Fred's talent. The only thing that I find "quite sad" and a "shame", however, is that this Dreambook is being polluted. People who really knew Fred,or more importantly, knew Fred's last wishes, would know that Fred did not even want to be buried. He initially wanted his ashes to be spread in the St. Lawrence River. His sisters convinced Fred to have his remains buried in the town where he was raised. It should be noted that Fred is buried in Brookside Cemetery, next to his mother. His GRAVESTONE is an open book with the inscription: "It was my fate, my destiny, my end, to be a fan". Fred's grave is well maintained and visited by family members. Fred's daughter, Pamela Anderson, from Grenwich, Connecticut, visits yearly. If there truly had been an attempt to convince someone to place a gravestone on Fred's grave, an honorable person would have discovered that there is already one there. It is distressing that the record must be set straight utilizing this website, a tribute to Fred; however, the facts must be known. |
| Name: | Frances Exley Brown |
| E-mail address: | helliond@msn.com |
| Comments: | It is obvious that Alexandra Mowers, not being part of the family, is not aware of Fred's wishes. A special stone was selected five years ago and has been at the grave site for the past two years. It is a simple stone with an open book denoting his famous quote, "It was my destiny, my fate, my end to be a fan". At the time of his death, our brother entrusted his legacy to my sister and me. The only other person he mentioned in his will was his daughter, Pamela, who has been an important part of all his memorials, recognitions, and honors. |
| Name: | Paul Benton |
| E-mail address: | drinknpoet@hotmail |
| Comments: | i gave a copy of a fan's notes to an ex-girlfrieind after her cat died. after i lugged the little dead beast to the vets where, i guess, they burned her up. i really do think the book is perhaps one of the best pieces of writing i've ever written. ranks up there with fante (john and dan), kennedy toole, bukowski, etc. etc. the guy really had a gift for gab. |
| Name: | Eddie |
| E-mail address: | irishmafia4life@aol.com |
| Comments: | It was actually my mother who recommended that I read A FAN'S NOTES. She presented me with a copy of the first print along with a New York Times Book Review from 1968 when NOTES was first published. Obviously, since she felt so strongly about this particular novel written by an author I definitely had never heard of, I felt compelled to give it a whirl. And I am so glad that I took Mom's advice. A FAN'S NOTES is probably one of the best contemporary American novels I have ever read; and yet there are so many people who, like myself, would probably have never read Exley unless they were told by someone. That novel is one of the best kept American Literary secrets, which on some level, makes reading it that much more enjoyable. |
| Name: | Willie Wayback |
| E-mail address: | Slippin@juno.com |
| Comments: | I recently finished A Fan's Notes and it was without a doubt one of the best books I've ever read. |
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| Name: | Neighbor |
| E-mail address: | picnicisl |
| Homepage URL: | http:// ? |
| Comments: | Need more specific info on those years of life after fame and noteriety. Very very very sketchy bio so far. Thanks for the work you are doing!
(GOD, how i mistrust those exclmation points. (And dashes-too!) |
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| E-mail address: | advisor@american-bald-eagles.com |
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| Comments: | Your site is quite interesting. |
| Name: | Alexandra Exley Mowers |
| E-mail address: | akmowers@aol.com |
| Comments: | It's good to see there are people out there who truely appreciated Fred's talent. I find it a shame that nearly 10 years after his death he still does not have a head stone to mark his grave, just the funeral home marker. Maybe if we all join together and put pressure on his coat tail riding sisters we could convince them to do the honorable thing and have a stone placed. I have tried to have this done with NO response from them. It's quite sad! |
| Name: | lwarman |
| E-mail address: | lwarman@telusplanet.net |
| Comments: | I just picked up a copy of "A Fan's Notes" in a thrift shop. It's a book I am enthralled with in spite of myself. I don't understand American football (nor want to), and I've spent too much time with real drunks to admire them in print -- BUT -- dammit, the guy can write! |
| Name: | Lynn B Overman |
| E-mail address: | loverman@uab.edu |
| Comments: | I just have to admit admit that despite reviewer's opinions, which I do respect, and agree with to an extent, there is nothing that will get me out of a funk quite like the "Oh-to-me" passage at the beginning of Last Notes. |
| Name: | James Mahony |
| E-mail address: | traklus@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | Exley's last two books show a patchiness/falling off. He was someone who had torn his one, big book out of himself--leaving no room for encores (and really having no more subject-matter at hand to write about). I find parallels with Exley and Malcolm Lowry not least in their mastery of English prose. But even had either lived longer it is doubtful that another major book would have ever resulted. |
| Name: | Captain Mercury |
| E-mail address: | reece@thetracers.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.thetracers.com |
| Comments: | it's so funny. I just saw this book in a bookstore and deceided to read it. It's the best book I've ever just 'happened' across. It must have been sending me vibrations or something funny. I'm not even done with it (notes), and didn't even know the other two sequels existed. Any other suggestions for other books this good?
Peace out brothers and sisters... love, the Captain... |
| Name: | Louis Houk |
| E-mail address: | jettbite.dogbark@gte.net |
| Comments: | Why the hell I haven't read this book sooner, I've got no
idea. Fred knew and we know. There are a few of us schitzo sports/literary wackos out here, hidden in the underbrush, misunderstood by both sides. They can't fathom the crossover mentality, the both sides of the brain approach to life that we covet and cultivate. Superbly written though the book is, my humble opinion is that the view of the vulnerable inner psyche is what draws me to this piece. Such a view I think that more writers should attempt. That I might ever share my warts so beautifully with t |
| Name: | Kris Gallagher |
| E-mail address: | kGalla@aol.com |
| Comments: | I'm a fan of Exley's from long past. I look forward to a
more detailed biography. |
| Name: | mike wallace |
| E-mail address: | rjqoekdjgd@aol.com |
| Comments: | If anyone has an essay on Rabbit, Run (preferably concerning imagery), please let me know. I could use help in either essay form, or purely ideas. Thank you.
Rjqoekdjgd@aol.com |
| Name: | Kella Prill |
| E-mail address: | kella@earthlink.net |
| Comments: | Whew! I'm not alone in my obsession of Mr. Exley. I'm
finishing Last Notes with sadness that there is no more Fred in my future. Any recommendations on bios, articles, websites, etc.? Or even other authors. I found a copy of Edmund Wilson's Hecate County and I've read Lolita several times. Any other suggestions? I want to know what Fred was like, his family and friends. I can't help but think I would like him very much, trashy drunk and all. |
| Name: | jbh |
| E-mail address: | jbh@shreve.net |
| Comments: | now |
| Name: | brad turner |
| E-mail address: | turnstile37@hotmail.com |
| Comments: |
Hello, I'm a fan. anyone out there seen the movie? it was made in 1972 and starred Burgess Meredith as Mr.Blue and others I can't recall at this time. I'd love to hear about it , maybe grab a copy. Thank-you Brad Turner |
| Name: | Josh Karp |
| E-mail address: | karpj2323@aol.com |
| Comments: | I, like all of you loved Fan's Notes. I read Yardley's
biography and thought it was great. I think that Fan's Notes, like Catcher in the Rye, Gatsby and Goodbye Columbus is one of those definitive books about America, it's dreams and coming of age therein. If there is ever a get together in Alexandria Bay, I would love to attend. I am a journalist and would very much like to cover it for a magazine. Would the person who runs this web site please contact me if such a thing is ever or |
| Name: | Gary Napthine |
| E-mail address: | napthine@iprimus.com,.au |
| Comments: | This is sensational. Just this morning (6 am) I decided to
use my browser to search for 'Exley'. I just remembered the most influential and entertaining book I've ever read (about 30 years ago). And I found this site!! Unfortunately my copies of 'A Fan's Notes' were lent to potential convertees and never returned. I've checked libraries and bookshops here (Melbourne, Australia) during the last 25 years and found nothing. But I now know I am not alone in my fond recollections or Mr. Blue, Frank Gifford, John Gentle and Dr Pahnee. I was saddened to read of Fred's death. We, his audience, have not yet faded out. |
| Name: | Frances Exley Brown |
| E-mail address: | helliond@msn.com |
| Comments: | It's great to see the continuing interest in Fred's legacy.
I just finished reading through the entries in the dreambook and thought how thrilled Fred would have been. A get-together in Alexandria Bay (of course) in order to share our memorabilia really sounds like a great idea. June 2002 marks the tenth anniversary of his death and might be the ideal time for such a gathering. Please keep me posted on any future plans relative to the above. |
| Name: | Mark Ritchie |
| E-mail address: | kawtapes@hotmail.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.geocities.com/srmband/kaw.html |
| Comments: | I was blown away when I read "A Fan's Notes" a couple of
years ago. I had never even heard of Fred Exley before. I only discovered him through a short article in a UK music magazine ("Uncut") about cult writers. "A Fan's Notes" is now one of my favourite novels, which I look forward to re- reading in the near future. The only other Exley book I have so far been able to find has been "Last Notes From Home", which I found excellent in parts, although not as outstanding as "A Fan's Notes". I've recently ordered "Pages From A Cold Island" and very much look forward to reading that and the Exley biography, if I can ever find it! Keep up the good work with this site. I'm glad it's here. Best wishes, Mark Ritchie |
| Name: | Bryan Farrow |
| E-mail address: | bryan_farrow2@excite.com |
| Comments: | My Vintage Contemporaries edition of A Fan's Notes is dog-
earred with repeated readings. Like many of you, I've aborted reads of new and old recommended books in favor of the now familiar, but always wrenching prose of the dearly departed Fred. He and Updike constitute my near exclusive literary fare. My own attempts at fiction are rife with stylistic homages to both. It's my own pet theory that Fan's Notes very deliberately plucked the same tropes as Rabbit, Run and other Updike fiction. Witness an obsessive apotheosis of the father and narratives that end with the protagonist running. Plus, there's a photo in Yardley's Misfit that depicts Exley seated below his bookshelf. Rabbit, Run appears on that shelf. I'll refrain from the usual Exleyan proselytism, and say only that "rejection and pain and loss" will always have a sunnier aspect for me because of one man's art. |
| Name: | Cameron Moser |
| E-mail address: | cjmoser@indiana.edu |
| Comments: | When my good-for-nothing, far too intelligent for his own
self, alcoholic uncle handed me A Fan's Notes to read I figured I'd get a nice read just like the hundreds of other books he'd consumed in his lifelong quest to do little more than mooch off of family members and read as much as possible. I was treated, however, to a book whose depth and insight are as relevant to an undermotivated college student in the 21st century as they were to my uncle when he read it for the first time in the 70's. The eerie connections between his life and Exley's took me somewhat aback, but the sheer force and power that Exley's prose burst forth from the pages with had me glued to the book in a marathon day long reading session that saw me not eating or leaving my room for fear of missing continuity in this great American novel. It's amazing. |
| Name: | Phil McCray |
| E-mail address: | research@racingarchives.org |
| Comments: | Friends and Exley devotees,
To those of us who, when asked what we've been reading lately, can ALWAYS answer "A Fan's Notes," I'd like to ask if there is any interest in holding a conference (in Alexandria Bay, of course) relating to Exley's work. Papers, roundtable discussions, searching through archival traces, and other celebrations of Fred and his work. Not necessarily an elaborate or formal proceeding, but a collegial meeting of close readers. I'll be glad to compile your thoughts on this and publish those remarks. best wishes, Phil McCray |
| Name: | Don Pollock |
| E-mail address: | dpollock@zoomnet.net |
| Comments: | I've been a fan of Frederick Exley's for years (I still
remember where I was when I first heard of his death). Does anyone know how or where I might obtain a photo of him? Thanks, Don |
| Name: | Keith Andrew |
| E-mail address: | kokoandrew@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | ahh, the endless desire to review and criticise. I was
going to write the standard fare for this type of thing: what I loved about A Fan's Notes.......After just finishing Last Notes From Home, the 3rd book in the trilogy, I have decided against the traditional. What I will say is this: like all talented writers, Exley makes me laugh and cry and his homage to the true master: Hemingway is applaudable. |
| Name: | Kevin McGowin |
| E-mail address: | kmcgowin@mindspring.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://kmcgowin.cjb.net |
| Comments: | Keep up that good work on the Exley page! Should you want an
essay, I'd be more than happy to oblige, as time permits. Kevin McGowin English North Carolina State University Raleigh, 27695 (919) 515-4129 |
| Name: | Matt Strudwick |
| Comments: | When I read A Fan's Notes I thought that I was reading
about myself despite the fact that my life to the outside eye has been nothing like Fred Exley's.No book has ever touched me to such a degree,it is a true classic of the 20th century. |
| Name: | joe shanley |
| E-mail address: | jshanley@link.com.eg |
| Comments: | Hey,
I'm in Cairo, where the fuck are you? Joe |
| Name: | Peter Fox |
| E-mail address: | TRexofPE@aol |
| Comments: | I just finished reading Last Notes From Home this week, a
clean remaindered copy of which I've owned for years. I waited because I knew that this was the last time I'd read a book by Frederick Exley for the first time. I loved it. I disagree, as he did, with the "diminished wad' accusation. It's inevitable that A Fan's Notes will continue to attract the vast readership it deserves--but also that many who read it will feel compelled to read all three books. Reading some of the other entries at this very nice website I realized that I too had actually read the second book first. I remember seeing a copy of it just after I'd finished it, in Prof. Roger Sale's office at the University of Washington, where I was begging him for a job of some kind. "Hey, I just read that!" I blurted. He asked if I'd read the first one, and I said no. "Read the first one." The subject was closed. I'd seen that in the early seventies in the orginal paperback. I've given copies of both to people, I've met people who read A Fan's Notes over and over. It will keep blowing people's minds into the future. Some observations: The sex talk has lost a lot of its shock value. The critique of forties and fifties America has actually gained immediacy. One of the great pleasures of reading Exley is following some of the longest sentences written in this country in the last fifty years. Where do you go when there's no more, except back? There's a crude resemblance to Kerouac, who is blindered in comparison. The language may have kinship with the later work of Edward Dahlberg: Because I Was Flesh, and The Confessions Of Edward Dahlberg. I was hipped to this now obscure, originally proletarian, novelist by Gilbert Sorrentino, whose Crystal Vision has a chorus of forties Brooklyn voices as funny and sad and profound as Exley. Barry Hannah (Airships, Bats Out Of Hell, High And Lonesome) deserves mention. And the only book I've ever seen by Northern Irish writer Ra |
| Name: | Kurt Brown |
| E-mail address: | PNarcII@AOL.com |
| Name: | Kurt Frederick Brown |
| E-mail address: | PNarcII |
| Comments: | I'm Exley's Nephew - son of his twin sister |
| Name: | J. Barnwell |
| E-mail address: | jetlagbarnswallow@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | "A Fan's Notes" is the perfect novel not for its
inventiveness or originality, but for its compassion, its tenderness, its willingness to lay out for anyone to see the language of a man tortured by his own conscience. He found excruciating beauty in the lamentable frailty of human being, and he was, by virtue of what his knowledge of himself revealed--and in order to avoid hypocrisy--one who rooted for the underdog. He also recognized a character when he met one, and was able to create a fine host of characters in his books as a result of that recognition (to which he added his own creative flair). Exley was a modern man, a man who was not afraid to look inside and relate with conviction the truths he found there. I read "A Fan's Notes" at a time when no other book would have caused me any enlightenment. Who cares whether I would have liked him in person. Would our taste in booze or women have set us at odds? Would his intellect have forced me into a corner to shed my own tears of inadequacy? Would we have loved one another like Father and Son? Doesn't matter. His books-- especially that first one--were a piece of my salvation, and for that I'll love him. |
| Name: | J. Barnwell |
| E-mail address: | jetlagbarnswallow@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | "A Fan's Notes" is the perfect novel not for its
inventiveness or originality, but for its compassion, its tenderness, its willingness to lay out for anyone to see the language of a man tortured by his own conscience. He found excruciating beauty in the lamentable frailty of human being, and he was, by virtue of what his knowledge of himself revealed--and in order to avoid hypocrisy--one who rooted for the underdog. He also recognized a character when he met one, and was able to create a fine host of characters in his books as a result of that recognition (to which he added his own creative flair). Exley was a modern man, a man who was not afraid to look inside and relate with conviction the truths he found there. I read "A Fan's Notes" at a time when no other book would have caused me any enlightenment. Who cares whether I would have liked him in person. Would our taste in booze or women have set us at odds? Would his intellect have forced me into a corner to shed my own tears of inadequacy? Would we have loved one another like Father and Son? Doesn't matter. His books-- especially that first one--were a piece of my salvation, and for that I'll love him. |
| Name: | Paul Hochman |
| E-mail address: | phochman@akadine.com |
| Comments: | Nice to finally see an Exley site. You should definately use
the original Spanfeller covers from "Fan's" and "Pages". I must admit, however, the cover for "Last Notes" (not a Spanfeller) is a fucking atrocity. |
| Name: | bill coleman |
| E-mail address: | billcoleman1234@excite.com |
| Comments: | Fred was a very dear friend of mine and we shared many
good and happy times together. I miss him |
| Name: | bill chinaski |
| E-mail address: | altreel@aol.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.iag.net/~rassilon/alternative_reel/index.html |
| Comments: | when i first read a fan's notes, it was like a revelation. i
couldn't put it down. then i read it through again. and then one more time. i couldn't believe it. This was the book i had been waiting for, a true american original. however, i read the next two novels and was very disappointed. i think exley put everything into fan's notes and that's okay because it's a classic. if you like it too, i suggest you check out a similar novel, frank conroy's stop-time. grea |
| Name: | Jon Hayes |
| E-mail address: | hayesjonathan@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | One of the most powerful aspects of 'A Fan's Notes' for me
was its sense of artistic integrity. Mr. Blue, the 'negro' patient in the mental hospital, the protagonist himself, the guy for whom he would pray if he believed in the 'efficacy of prayer,' these characters who would never be in the American limelight are shown to have a sort of integrity, I think, and Exley is there to hold this up for all of us to see. Exley did have a vision and he saw it through in his own way. It has been a while since I have read the book, so those powerful first impressions have worn off, but many images stay with me. |
| Name: | James Price |
| E-mail address: | JPRICE@kc.rr.com |
| Comments: | I discovered Pages From a Cold Island about twenty-five
years ago, when it was new in the bookstores. I loved it. I quickly backtracked and read A Fan's Notes, then again, and again. The subsequent wait for Last Notes From Home, the trilogy's conclusion, was excruciating. I've never since found a book their equal. I remember Exley saying that sometimes after he'd been reading Nabokov, a novelist he greatly admired, he'd be unable to write, thinking his prose was inadequate by comparison. Well, Mr. Exley, thanks to you I have a difficult time lasting through many novels I pick up and attempt to read; you certainly set the stan |
| Name: | James Price |
| E-mail address: | JPRICE@kc.rr.com |
| Comments: | I discovered Pages From a Cold Island about twenty-five
years ago, when it was new in the bookstores. I loved it. I quickly backtracked and read A Fan's Notes, then again, and again. The subsequent wait for Last Notes From Home, the trilogy's conclusion, was excruciating. I've never since found a book their equal. I remember Exley saying that sometimes after he'd been reading Nabokov, a novelist he greatly admired, he'd be unable to write, thinking his prose was inadequate by comparison. Well, Mr. Exley, thanks to you I have a difficult time lasting through many novels I pick up and attempt to read; you certainly set the stan |
| Name: | Rob Azevedo |
| E-mail address: | zazza2@aol.com |
| Comments: | Dear Fans
I don't really know why anyone would want to meet Exley. I've read his book. I loved his mind, as cheap as it was, but as a person he was a bastard -- a helpless, two-fisted freeloader living out a very tragic life. If you were to meet him he would be nothing but a disappointment, a tired, insecure man just waiting for his life to end. I do believe this. Yours, Rob Azevedo |
| Name: | kevin p. simonson |
| E-mail address: | mondo@probe,net |
| Comments: | I'm starting in on the third book - with hesisation. I
don't want the stories to end. Also, you can get Misfit (the biography) on bookcloseout.com for $3.99. Great site. I'll be back periodical |
| Name: | Richard S. Rudolph |
| E-mail address: | rudolphr@phlx.com |
| Comments: | I am now transitioning from Pages From A Cold Island to
Last Notes, and I eagerly await the next howl, the next tear, the next time I want to say, "How come I never got a chance to meet you, Freddy?" If I had met you, would I be another groupie annoying you with what I perceived to be "poignant" questions, or would we just watch the Giants and the Eagles while talking about pussy and slamming away at shots and beers? |
| Name: | Richard S. Rudolph |
| Comments: | I am now transitioning from Pages From A Cold Island to
Last Notes, and I eagerly await the next howl, the next tear, the next time I want to say, "How come I never got a chance to meet you, Freddy?" If I had met you, would I be another groupie annoying you with what I perceived to be "poignant" questions, or would we just watch the Giants and the Eagles while talking about pussy and slamming away at shots and beers? |
| Name: | Richard S. Rudolph |
| Name: | Patrick Simpson |
| E-mail address: | ship@gisco.net |
| Name: | Joe Knepper |
| E-mail address: | joek@redrose.net |
| Comments: | Did Exley finally manage to drink himself to death? Or did
his suicide take on another form? I wish I could have had the honor to have known him, buy him a beer, talk. I just finished reading _A Fan's Notes_ today. What an unsettling read it was. What a poignant story it is. |
| Name: | bcorig |
| E-mail address: | bcorig@earthlink.net |
| Comments: | The original cover of "A Fan's Notes" is much more
enchanting than the re release cover. have you ever seen it? |
| Name: | bcorig |
| E-mail address: | bcorig@earthlink.net |
| Comments: | A Fan's Notes is the best novel ever written. |
| Name: | Nick Smith |
| E-mail address: | criminy@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | Nice to see there's a Frederick Exley site, even if it is a
little light on at this stage... A Fan's Notes is one of the most remarkable I've ever read... I'd love to know more about the man and just how 'fictional' his 'fictional memoir' is... Nick Australia |