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   Jun 5, 2023 · Sometime in September, 1982, James Grissom, a twenty-year-old English student at Louisiana State University, receives a life-changing phone call from Tennessee Williams.

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3. longreads.com › 2015/04/16 › tennessee-williams-onTennessee Williams on His Women, His Writer's Block, and ...

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   Apr 16, 2015 · Tennessee Williams tasked James Grissom with seeking out each of the women (and few men) who had inspired his work—Maureen Stapleton, Lillian Gish, Marlon Brando and others—so that he could ask them a question: had Tennessee Williams, or his work, ever mattered?

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4. www.amazon.com › Follies-God-Tennessee-WilliamsFollies of God: Tennessee Williams and the Women of the Fog

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   Aug 9, 2016 · by James Grissom (Author) 4.5 222 ratings. See all formats and editions. This remarkably illuminating portrait of Tennessee Williams lifts the veil on the heart and soul of his artistic inspiration: the unspoken collaboration between playwright and actor.

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5. www.penguinrandomhouse.com › books › 72189Follies of God by James Grissom: 9781101972779 ...

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   About Follies of God. This remarkably illuminating portrait of Tennessee Williams lifts the veil on the heart and soul of his artistic inspiration: the unspoken collaboration between playwright and actor. At a low moment in Williams’s life, he summoned to New Orleans a young twenty-year-old writer, James Grissom, who had written him a letter ...

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6. www.tampabay.com › features › booksReview: Grissom's 'Follies of God' captures Tennessee Williams

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   Sep 30, 2015 · The story of how James Grissom came to write Follies of God is almost as remarkable as the book itself. When Grissom, a Louisiana native, was 20 years old and an aspiring writer, he wrote a...

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7. www.kirkusreviews.com › news-and-features › articlesQuestions Raised About Book on Tennessee Williams

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   Jun 7, 2023 · Writers are raising doubts about the veracity of an eight-year-old book on playwright Tennessee Williams, author of A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and other classics of the American theater. In an article for the New Yorker, Helen Shaw examines James Grissom’s Follies of God: Tennessee Williams and the Women of the Fog ...

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   Why did Tennessee Williams send Grissom on a journey?

   • After a long, intense conversation, Williams sent Grissom on a journey on the playwright’s behalf to find out if he, Tennessee Williams, or his work, had mattered to those who had so deeply mattered to him, those who had led him to what he called the blank page, “the pale judgment.”

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   Did James Grissom get a phone call from Tennessee Williams?

   • Sometime in September, 1982, James Grissom, a twenty-year-old English student at Louisiana State University, receives a life-changing phone call from Tennessee Williams. It doesn’t come completely out of the blue: Grissom had sent a fan letter to the playwright, enclosing a picture and a few short stories, and asking for advice.

   Did This Writer Actually Know Tennessee Williams?

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   Did Tennessee Williams give James Grissom a life-changing mission?

   • Grissom says that the playwright gave him a life-changing mission. Illustration by Valentin Tkach Sometime in September, 1982, James Grissom, a twenty-year-old English student at Louisiana State University, receives a life-changing phone call from Tennessee Williams.

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   How long did it take Grissom to reach out to Williams?

   • Grissom recounts that weeks before Williams died, in February, 1983, the playwright called his house and left a message: “Be my witness.” It took Grissom six years, but once he moved to New York he began reaching out to the names on his list, bearing Williams’s words as his calling card.

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