Read Why I Can’t Read Wallace Stegner and Other Essays: A Tribal Voice, by Elizabeth Cook-Lynn.I have had good luck recently with reading older books – not quite “classics” but noteworthy in their own time, still thoroughly enjoyable and without the long library hold times of recent releases (bonus!).Read Hall’s memoir, Reclaiming My Decade Lost in Scientology.Join Stories on Stage Sacramento on May 27 to watch a performance of Hall’s Alta story by Megan Smith.Read Angle of Repose, by Stegner, and A Victorian Gentlewoman in the Far West: The Reminiscences of Mary Hallock Foote.Read “ Another Angle,” by Jessica Blough, from the Alta Weekly Newsletter.Read Hall’s “ ‘The Ways of Fiction Are Devious Indeed,’” from Alta’s Spring 2022 issue.Want to chime in on the discussion? Let us know what you think at out these links to some of the topics Hall and Melton brought up. “If is just a drop in the bucket of the large ocean of these wrongs, and if someone is made aware of it, that is the work I want to do.” “As I began to dig into this story, it tapped some enormous rage in me about what’s been done to women for millennia,” Hall said, referring to not just plagiarism but also lost legacies and abuse. He just gambled, and I would like to think he’s on the losing end of that gamble.”īut as Hall wrote-first her play about Stegner and Foote, Fair Use, and later her Alta story-she began to notice connections between Foote’s stolen legacy and larger patterns of erasure and violence against women. I also think he thought her writing would never see the light of day. He says it himself: ‘The ways of fiction are devious indeed’-and that I think he made a real pact with the devil. Hall’s goal with the story, she told Alta Live, was to bring this literary controversy “to an audience of people who know and love this book, who know and have appreciated Stegner’s writing. Hall concurred: “It was so much more devious than even I had thought.” “As with any person who is writing a crime story, you’re going to come upon some revelations that you didn’t expect,” Melton said. Melton, like Hall, began to view Stegner’s use of Foote’s writing in his Pulitzer Prize–winning novel Angle of Repose as a kind of crime. When Mary Melton read an early draft of Sands Hall’s story for Alta on Wallace Stegner and Mary Hallock Foote, she was surprised to find a mystery tale where she had expected literary criticism.
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