Apr 21 2005
Googling Myself - Episode 1: Raymond Carver
Welcome to the first episode of Googling Myself, a series of posts in which I Google myself and tell you what I found… Okay, it’s probably the only time I’ll do this, but I’m doing it now because the last time I Googled myself (that is, Googled ‘Phillip Cairns’), I discovered I was being referenced in a For Dummies book, and today I found something that seems just as odd…
So I go and Google myself again, and I find some comments about Raymond Carver that I wrote in 1997 published on the now-defunct Wired For Books website. I wrote the comments (which I’m somewhat embarassed by) as emails in a listserv discussion group; I didn’t know they would be permanently posted to any website. And I was definitely never informed that my comments would be read on a radio show for a panel discussion of Raymond Carver’s short stories.
But here it is. It’s a 60-minutes show (6mb) which, despite the inclusion of my comments, is one of the most informed discussions of Raymond Carver’s work I’ve come across… The funny things you find when you Google yourself.
And, as usual, my last name, Cairns, is mispronounced (but correctly pronounced later by one of the panelists), as is Newfoundland.