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Hoffman, William
William Hoffman 1925-
American novelist and short story writer.
The following entry presents an overview of Hoffman's career through 2001.
Hoffman is known for composing gritty, realistic works which advocate stable, transcendent values, continual self-discovery, and personal sacrifice as a means to spiritual redemption in a fallen world. Though a regional writer, his works transcend the concerns of the American South through the essential humanity of their characters and themes, which together mirror much of the turmoil of the last half of the twentieth century. The dehumanizing effects of war are clearly delineated in The Trumpet Unblown (1957), while the impact of economics on personal lives is central in The Dark Mountains (1963). Tidewater Blood (1998) exemplifies Hoffman's many narrative strengths, and his four short story collections reflect his philosophical beliefs and agrarian bent.
Biographical Information
Born in 1925 in Charleston, West Virginia, the son of a coal miner, Hoffman was raised by his grandmother, and a strict Presbyterian upbringing strongly influenced his later fiction. Hoffman graduated from high school at the Kentucky Military Institute in Lyndon, Kentucky. At age eighteen he was drafted into the U.S. Army, where he served in the medical corps from 1943 to 1946. His experiences in the Normandy invasion and the Battle of the Bulge shaped three of his novels, The Trumpet Unblown, Days in the Yellow Leaf (1958), and Yancey's War (1966). Upon his return to the United States, Hoffman enrolled in Hampden-Sydney College, from which he graduated in 1949. Intending to become a lawyer, Hoffman attended Washington and Lee University during 1949-50, where he took a creative writing course. He so enjoyed writing that he decided to make it his life's work; accordingly, he participated in the University of Iowa's Writers' Workshop from 1950 to 1951. He worked briefly as a journalist in Washington, D.C., and then went to New York City, where he held a minor post at the Chase National Bank. Hoffman returned to Virginia in 1952 in response to an offer from Hampden-Sydney College to become an assistant professor of English. When he returned to Virginia, he began writing fiction and adopted the schedule to which he still adheres, writing from five until nine in the morning, teaching, and then writing again in the afternoon. The discipline this schedule imposed resulted in the completion of two novels, The Trumpet Unblown and Days in the Yellow Leaf. He continued teaching at Hampden-Sydney through 1959, when he resigned to devote himself to writing full-time. During his time away from academic duties he published two more novels, A Place for My Head (1960) and The Dark Mountains. In 1964 he returned to Hampden-Sydney as a writer-in-residence, a post he held for the next seven years. Also in 1964, he purchased a pre-Civil War farmhouse on fifty acres of land near Charlotte Court House for his family, a wife and two daughters. Over the next several years he developed his small farm into a model of self-sufficiency and harmony with the environment of Southside Virginia. Yancey's War, another novel, appeared in 1966, and in 1967 he published a drama, The Love Touch. Two novels, A Walk to the River (1970) and A Death of Dreams (1973), as well as his first short story collection, Virginia Reels (1978), were published in the next decade. Hoffman retired from Hampden-Sydney in 1983 but continues to write. His work has won several prestigious literary prizes, including best story of 1988 from the Virginia Quarterly Review for "Sweet Armageddon," the Andrew Lytle Prize from the Sewanee Review for "Dancer," and the Jean Charpiot Goodheart Prize for Fiction, awarded by Shenandoah. He received a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship in 1976 and was inducted as a Virginia Cultural Laureate in 1986. Hoffman was awarded the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature in 1992 and the O. Henry Prize in 1996. He was elected to the Fellowship of Southern Writers in 1998, and was a recipient of their Hillsdale Prize for fiction in the same year. Tidewater Blood won the Dashiell Hammett award in 1999. Hoffman has received two honorary D. Litt. degrees, one from Hampden-Sydney College in 1980 and another from Washington and Lee University in 1995.
Major Works
Hoffman's sense of place is paramount in his works; almost all of them are set in West Virginia, Virginia, or the Chesapeake Bay area. His work shares much of the outlook and many idiosyncrasies of other Southern Agrarian authors, yet his themes are universal and strongly influenced by the circumstances of his own life. Critics divide his novels into three categories, those concerned mostly with the following: war, the culture of Virginia and West Virginia, and spirituality. In both his novels and his short stories, Hoffman's characters attempt to define themselves, search for distant or unknown fathers, cope with random violence, examine the devastating effects of war, or question the rampant materialism of the last half of the twentieth century. The Trumpet Unblown tells the story of a young Virginian, Tyree Jefferson Shelby, who altruistically volunteers for service, but in the course of observing unspeakable brutality and venality on both sides loses all faith in humanity. Days in the Yellow Leaf recalls the inevitability of Aristotelian tragedy in the unfolding story of the protagonist, Tod Young. A conscientious objector during World War II, his father considers him a traitor and coward, yet Tod remains in the town of his childhood. In his determination to be his own man and to avoid hurting others, he loses everything except, in the end, reconciliation and mutual understanding with his father. Yancy's War depicts the life of an inept man whose incompetence takes not only his own life but the lives of the men under his command. Hoffman recalls his own West Virginia heritage in The Dark Mountains, a rich novel about the coal mining industry during the rise of the labor union movement. Hoffman traces three generations of a family, showing their rise, decline, and ultimate accommodation to circumstances. In A Walk to the River, a minister stands falsely accused of committing adultery with the wife of the town's leading citizen. Jackson LeJohn, the chair of the church's board, is charged with overseeing the investigation and congregational meetings that result in the conviction of an innocent man and in the course of discharging his duties, he discovers important things about himself.
Hoffman writes repeatedly about moral decay and rampant materialism in modern American society, a concern that led to three novels sometimes categorized as philosophical or religious in theme—The Land that Drank the Rain (1982), Godfires (1985), and Furors Die (1990). The Land That Drank the Rain is a modern day retelling of the tribulations of Job. The protagonist, Claytor Carson, has been living a dissolute life in California but returns to his roots in the Cumberland Mountains seeking spiritual renewal. A character named Vestil Skank, alternately sympathetic and repugnant, is Carson's tormentor and ultimate savior. As Carson attempts to redeem Skank from a life of squalor and degradation, he learns that only through self-sacrifice, personal courage, and interaction with others can he experience redemption. Furors Die traces the maturation and relationship of two boys who come from different socioeconomic circumstances but whose lives are irrevocably intertwined. Wylie, born wealthy and given a Southern gentleman's pedigree, and Amos, poor but talented, experience a reversal of fortunes. As the transformation in their lots occurs, their true characters are revealed, permitting self-understanding and growth. Tidewater Blood, covers Hoffman's entire fictional geography. Several members of an aristocratic Virginia family are murdered at a family reunion. Suspicion falls immediately on Charles LeBlanc, the black sheep of the family. A disgraced Vietnam veteran, dishonorably discharged from the armed forces, LeBlanc has been living hermit-like in a swamp. As law enforcement officers attempt to capture him, he embarks on a quest to his family's roots in West Virginia, where he must come to terms with his family's past in order to prove his innocence. Conflicting cultural values and the power of the past over events in the present, themes that Hoffman explores repeatedly in his works, are strong elements of Tidewater Blood. Hoffman's spare prose, setting, and central themes are evident in his four short story collections. The stories in Virginia Reels are deeply pessimistic and reflective of Hoffman's Calvinist heritage. The stories in By Land, By Sea (1988) and Follow Me Home (1994) are less dark than those in the first collection, but describe characters caught in fateful forces that have moved beyond their ability to either recognize or control. In contrast to the first two volumes of short stories, Follow Me Home contains protagonists with strong values—admirable human beings who have attained innocence through experience. Doors (1999) contains ten linked stories that illustrate the fictional town of Tobaccoton, Virginia, which some critics have compared to William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County.
Critical Reception
Although long favored by critics, Hoffman's works have languished among readers, except for a small following of devoted fans. Though the nationally esteemed Sewanee Review has, as of 1991, published more short stories by William Hoffman than by any other author, his literary reputation has been slow to extend beyond his home state and Southern vicinity. His supporters note that the range and richness of his work, while confined in setting, is universal in exploring the psychological processes of self-discovery, maintenance of ethical values, and the means to redemption. The Trumpet Unblown has been favorably compared to Ernest Hemingway's great war novels and Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage, and the characters of The Dark Mountains have been favorably compared to those in Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men and F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. While some critics see profundity, even mythic power, in the sparse quality of his narrative style, Hoffman's terse diction has been faulted by some as overly simplistic. Despite such criticism and a long career of relative underrecognition, Hoffman's two recent mystery novels, Tidewater Blood and Blood and Guile (2000), have earned him a wider popular readership. His thematic concerns, reiterated in all his works, link him to the tradition instituted by such important Southern authors as Warren, Eudora Welty, and Flannery O'Connor.
Principal Works
The Trumpet Unblown (novel) 1957
Days in the Yellow Leaf (novel) 1958
A Place for My Head (novel) 1960
The Dark Mountains (novel) 1963
Yancey's War (novel) 1966
The Love Touch (drama) 1967
A Walk to the River (novel) 1970
A Death of Dreams (novel) 1973
Virginia Reels (short stories) 1978
The Land That Drank the Rain (novel) 1982
Godfires (novel) 1985
By Land, By Sea (short stories) 1988
Furors Die (novel) 1990...
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Gloria Galloway (review date 7 April 1968)
SOURCE: "Author First Wrote Love Letters for a Fee," in Richmond Times Dispatch, April 7, 1968, p. H14.
[In the following essay, Galloway traces Hoffman's early experiences as a writer, his relationship with his wife, and discusses with the author aspects of Hoffman's house in the town of Charlotte Court House, Virginia.]
Author William Hoffman, who got his "professional" writing start composing love letters for classmates at the tender age of 16, now finds himself cast in the role of country squire.
As author-in-residence at Hampden-Sydney College, he teaches creative writing, a field dear to his heart, and as the owner of "Wynard," a pre...
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Robert Buffington (review date Winter 1972)
SOURCE: "The Intolerable Wrestle," in Modern Age, Vol. 16, No. 1, Winter, 1972, pp. 109-11.
[In the following review of A Walk to the River, Buffington discusses Hoffman's Southern concerns and prose style, finding shortcomings in the novel's dramatization.]
William Hoffman is one of the writers indicted in Floyd C. Watkins' The Death of Art: Black and White in the Recent Southern Novel (University of Georgia Press, 1970). Professor Watkins' thesis, simple to argue, is that the fictions of Hoffman, Carson McCullers, Elizabeth Spencer, Harper Lee, Jesse Hill Ford, Peter S. Feibleman, and others, including even William Faulkner and Robert Penn...
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Gary Davenport (review date Summer 1983)
SOURCE: "The Fugitive Hero in New Southern Fiction," in Sewanee Review, Vol. XCI, No. 3, Summer, 1983, pp. 439-45.
[In the following excerpt, Davenport offers a positive assessment of The Land That Drank the Rain.]
Being an American, over a century after Henry James's celebrated remark, is still a complex fate. What is perhaps more noteworthy in our age of easy mobility, mass communication, and increasing national uniformity is that it is still a complex fate—and a virtually unique fate—to be a southerner. More accurately it is a paradoxical fate. The southerner exists at the intersection of two deeply rooted conflicting traditions: on the one hand stand...
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Walter Sullivan (review date Fall 1985)
SOURCE: "About Any Kind of Meanness You Can Name," in Sewanee Review, Vol. XCIII, No. 4, Fall, 1985, pp. 649-56.
[In the following excerpt, Sullivan commends Hoffman's prose style but finds Godfires to be a reprise of well-worn views and attitudes about the contemporary American South.]
The three novels discussed here are all more or less southern, but otherwise they are about as different as they could be. The hero of Cormac McCarthy's novel, from which I take my title, is born in Tennessee, but the action of the novel occurs in the American West. Lewis Green's The Silence of Snakes is set in the mountains of North Carolina between the world wars,...
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Robert Merritt (review date 3 April 1988)
SOURCE: "Spirit Prevails in Well-Crafted Tales," in Richmond Times Dispatch, April 3, 1988, p. F5.
[In the following review of By Land, By Sea, Merritt praises Hoffman's abilities as a literary craftsman and poignant storyteller.]
William Hoffman is an old-fashioned writer, and this seems to account for both the pleasures of his stories and for some of their annoying traits.
Being an old-fashioned writer from Virginia—Hoffman lives in Charlotte County and was for seven years writer-in-residence at Hampden-Sydney College—means that these stories are close to the land and occasionally to the Chesapeake Bay, and they belong to the sense of...
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Christine Neuberger (review date 15 May 1988)
SOURCE: "Southside Life Inspires Author," in Richmond Times Dispatch, May 15, 1988, pp. C1–C2.
[In the following review, Neuberger relates how Hoffman enjoys living in a small, agrarian community in Virginia, and discusses the inspiration Hoffman draws from the landscape and the people around him.]
Like almost everyone else in this small Southside town. Bill Hoffman can be seen each morning ambling to the post office, greeting others along the way.
In the afternoons, Hoffman will do chores around the small farm he and his wife share with their horses, dogs and cats.
But a typical resident of Southside, Hoffman is not....
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Greg Johnson (review date Summer 1989)
SOURCE: "Wonderful Geographies," in Georgia Review, Vol. 43, No. 2, Summer, 1989, pp. 406-16.
[In the following excerpt, Johnson offers a favorable evaluation of By Land, By Sea, though arguing that some of the stories "lapse into melodrama."]
"The truth is," Eudora Welty has written, "fiction depends for its life on place." Her well-known essay, "Place in Fiction," champions the significance of a story's setting: "Every story would be another story, and unrecognizable as art, if it took up its characters and plot and happened somewhere else." The importance of location, according to Welty, transcends any critical commonplaces about...
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William Frank (review date 21 March 1990)
SOURCE: "Hoffman Doesn't Dodge Life," in the Farmville Herald, March 21, 1990, pp. A1, A3.
[The following review of Furors Dieprovides a plot summary of the novel and lauds Hoffman's abilities as a skilled writer, praising his proficiency with symbolism, language, satire, and setting.]
To the followers of the fiction of William Hoffman, it will come as no surprise that he has dedicated his latest novel—his tenth, Furors Die—to his former minister and his wife. In the first place, Bill Hoffman has always been interested in, and, in his fiction, has never dodged questions of a moral, philosophical, or theological nature: One recalls immediately Tod...
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Robert Merritt (review date 20 May 1990)
SOURCE: "Old-Fashioned Values," in Richmond Times Dispatch, May 20, 1990, p. G5.
[In the following brief review of Furors Die, Merritt praises Hoffman's talent for describing character and place, but denounces the novel for its old-fashioned attitudes, particularly in regard to its portrayal of sexual relations.]
When William Hoffman is described as an "old-fashioned" writer, what it means is that he's a Southern writer who tries to maintain the old Southern values—to life, as well as literature—in a changing world. In this, his 10th novel, the former writer-in-residence at Hampden-Sydney College and longtime resident of Charlotte Courthouse tries to...
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William L. Frank (essay date February 1991)
SOURCE: "The Fiction of William Hoffman: An Introduction," in Hollins Critic, Vol. XXVIII, No. 1, February, 1991, pp. 1-10.
[In the following essay, Frank provides an overview of the central themes, regional settings and motifs, prose style, and narrative presentation in Hoffman's fiction. Frank's analysis, which aims to enlarge Hoffman's readership, focuses on several representative works—the novels The Trumpet Unblown, The Land That Drank the Rain, and Godfires, and the short story collection By Land, By Sea.]
During the past thirty-five years William Hoffman has published ten novels, two collections of short stories, and over three dozen...
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Gary Davenport (review date Spring 1992)
SOURCE: "Fiction and the Furniture of Consciousness," in Sewanee Review, Vol. C, No. 2, Spring, 1992, pp. 323-30.
[In the following excerpt, Davenport praises Hoffman's skill as a novelist and offers a positive assessment of Furors Die.]
"Caelum, non animum, mutant, qui trans mare currunt": those who rush across the sea change their climate, not their minds. Thus ran Horace's advice to his travelling friend Bullatius. Given the right sort of mind, you will find what you seek anywhere, even at squalid Ulubrae—or, given the wrong sort, nowhere. Horace's line has enjoyed a modicum of fame, no doubt because there have always been enough impenetrably...
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Ron Carter (review date 11 September 1994)
SOURCE: "Hoffman Energizes His Tales," in Richmond Times Dispatch, September 11, 1994, p. F4.
[In the following brief review of the short stories in Follow Me Home, Carter deems the tales to be carefully constructed, humorous, and compelling, but denounces Hoffman for the fact that some of the stories and dialogue seem contrived.]
"We read to know we're not alone," says a character in the recent film, Shadowlands. Literature comforts us with the knowledge that others share our doubts and fears, our disappointments and heartaches. And it extends this comfort by letting us enter the lives of others and experience the secret longings and broken...
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Fred Chappell (essay date Summer 1996)
SOURCE: "Taking Measure: Violent Intruders in William Hoffman's Short Fiction," in Sewanee Review, Vol. CIV, No. 3, Summer, 1996, pp. 396-412.
[In the following essay, Chappell draws attention to the recurring motif of an outsider entering into an insular community, or "pocket society," in Hoffman's short fiction. As Chappell notes, this theme in Hoffman's stories is often dramatized by episodes of violence and menacing reversals that give depth, suspense, and resolution to his narratives.]
The term pocket society describes a definable aggregate of individual people that possesses recognizable dynamic qualities and important, though often changeable,...
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Bill Frank (review date 1 April 1998)
SOURCE: "Hoffman's Novel 'Tight, Taut, Compelling …'," in Farmville Herald, April 1, 1998, p. 2B.
[In the following review, Frank enthusiastically praises the literary merits and compelling, thrilling story in Tidewater Blood.]
Move over John Grisham, Patricia Cornwell and Sue Grafton—there's a new kid on the mystery writer's block! Charlotte County novelist William Hoffman's Tidewater Blood is tight, taut, compelling and convincing.
Two months ago my wife and I were on our way to visit my brother in New Port Richey, Florida via Savannah, Georgia. Courtesy of my wife's sister we had with us a twelve hour tape of Dean Koontz'...
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Ron Carter (review date 12 April 1998)
SOURCE: "Hoffman Turns to Suspense," in Richmond Times Dispatch, April 12, 1998, p. F4.
[In the following review, Carter lauds Hoffman's characterization and sense of place in Tidewater Blood,but denounces the author for couching the deeper story about the conflict between Virginians and West Virginians within the trappings of a murder mystery.]
Although Cold Mountain and Paradise have managed recently to elbow their way onto the bestseller lists, the top slots are still populated mainly by novels about secret political/economic/terrorist cabals threatening to destroy entire populations unless their demands are met.
In such...
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Bill McKelway (review date 29 April 1998)
SOURCE: "Surprise Ending," in Richmond Times Dispatch, April 29, 1998, p. D1, D3.
[In the following review, McKelway extols the virtues of Tidewater Blood, noting that the book marks a departure for Hoffman due to its suspense thriller characteristics, whereas his other works typically feature philosophical examinations and deeper symbolic levels at their core.]
He doesn't remember exactly when the idea came to him, but it dawned on Virginia writer William Hoffman that murdering someone with a time-delayed explosion would make for a novel crime.
Fortunately, the idea has spawned a possible best seller rather than a police record....
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Steve Clark (review date 30 April 1998)
SOURCE: "His Novel's Success is 'Thrilling' News," in Richmond Times Dispatch, April 30, 1998, p. B1.
[In the following review, Clark discusses the release of Tidewater Blood, noting Hoffman's easy-going affability and the author's venture into the suspense thriller market with the novel.]
William "Bill" Hoffman came to town yesterday to promote his new novel, Tidewater Blood.
The book, a modern suspense thriller involving an aristocratic Virginia family whose roots go way back, is off to a fine start artistically and commercially.
It has been proclaimed a page-turner by some literary critics, and it is...
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William L. Frank with William Hoffman (interview date 24 May 1999)
SOURCE: "Hoffman Opens His Door: Author Discusses Writing, New Short Story Collection," in Farmville Herald, June 4, 1999, pp. 1, 10.
[In the following interview, Hoffman discusses his approach to writing, his short story collection Doors,and the thematic concerns of his fiction.]
Editor's Note: The following interview took place at the home of Bill and Susan Hoffman at their home, Wynyard, in Charlotte Court House, on Monday, May 24. The occasion was the publication of Mr. Hoffman's fifteenth book and fourth short story collection, Doors. … The interview was conducted on behalf of the Farmville Herald by Bill Frank, Professor Emeritus of...
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Gordon Van Ness (review date 4 June 1999)
SOURCE: "Hoffman's Doors Offers Look at Human Nature," in Farmville Herald, June 4, 1999, p. 8.
[In the following review, Van Ness offers a positive assessment of Doors.]
"Begin with an individual," Scott Fitzgerald wrote in 1926, "and before you know it you find you have created a type." Fitzgerald's "type," a determined, upper-class young woman, courageous and attractive and independent, competing at life and love for the highest stakes—her future—, centered all his stories. William Hoffman's fourth collection of stories, titled Doors, also presents a type, though one not so readily defined—an outsider who is not restricted to...
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Ron Carter (review date 27 June 1999)
SOURCE: "Hoffman Evokes Sense of Place," in Richmond Times Dispatch, June 27, 1999, p. F4.
[In the following brief review, Carter offers a positive evaluation of the stories in Doors.]
Few writers have an ear so finely attuned to the pulsebeat of a place as William Hoffman. In the 10 stories collected here [in Doors], all of which appeared previously in prestigious literary quarterlies, Hoffman creates a rich and lovingly detailed tapestry that encapsulates the life of Southside Virginia from its fox-hunting elite to its harried tobacco farmers, confident "come-heres," and watermen (or, in this case, waterwomen). In the spare, precise prose that...
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William L. Frank (essay date 2000)
SOURCE: "The Novels of William Hoffman: One Writer's Spiritual Odyssey from World War II to the Twenty-First Century," in The Fictional World of William Hoffman, edited by William L. Frank, University of Missouri Press, 2000, pp. 58-87.
[In the following essay, Frank provides an overview of Hoffman's novels, which he divides into "war novels," "Virginia/West Virginia novels," and "philosophical/spiritual novels," and examines the recurring motif of spiritual longing, disillusionment, and redemption in these works. According to Frank, "Hoffman's real subject is not initiation, but his own spiritual odyssey." A portion of this essay originally appeared as a review of...
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Gordon Van Ness (essay date 2000)
SOURCE: "The American Adam in the Southern Wasteland: William Hoffman's Follow Me Home and the Ethics of Redemption," in The Fictional World of William Hoffman, edited by William L. Frank, University of Missouri Press, 2000, pp. 24-45.
[In the following essay, Van Ness examines the theme of spiritual redemption in the short stories of Follow Me Home. Van Ness identifies Hoffman's protagonists as American incarnations of the biblical Adam, situated in a fallen "southern wasteland." As such, Hoffman's protagonists are viewed as independent, self-reliant individuals whose rediscovery of old-fashioned morality and the virtues of the heart lead to renewal and "a spiritual...
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Paula Span (essay date 4 February 2001)
SOURCE: "Bestseller Dreams," in Washington Post, February 4, 2001, p. W11.
[In the following essay, Span surveys Hoffman's career as a writer who has been critically acclaimed but has yet to achieve the status of bestselling author, focusing upon the promotion of his novel Blood and Guile.]
Bill Hoffman walks into the Volume II Bookstore in Blacksburg, Va., on a Wednesday evening and immediately wishes he could walk right out again.
It's the chairs. Past the poster promising "10٪ Off William Hoffman Books During Event," past the stacks of his novels Tidewater Blood and the just-published Blood and Guile, in the center of this...
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Further Reading
Capers, Charlotte. "The Comeuppance of a Gentleman." New York Times Book Review (17 April 1960): 24.
Offers a positive assessment of A Place for My Head.
Cooperman, Stanley. "Recent Fiction." The Nation (11 February 1955): 123.
Finds The Trumpet Unblown to be a dated and unremarkable war novel.
Core, George. "Confronting Dilemmas of Flesh, Spirit." Roanoke Times & World-News (5 December 1993): D4.
Brief overview of Hoffman's career and life in honor of the Dos Passos Award he received from Longwood College.
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Interesting interview in today's issue of the Times Newspaper today
You can access on line but may have to pay
Paul is interviewed by Caitlin Moran. He talks about having his private phone calls hacked and the need for a change in athe law. How he feels banks should repay the public funds that bailed them out. There is a quite intereting section where Paul talks about his soundchecks -which are attended only by competition winners.
He says
" I get to play more obscure stuff, jam a bit.But i try to think about how i'd feel if I'd paid to see me jamming away. I think ,I'd think you miserable sod and wouldn't want to see me again"
Now this struck me as strange maybe Paul is unaware, that whilst there may be occasions where competition winners attend soundchecks, there are many fans who are paying extrodinary prices for tickets that include attending the soundcheck. I believe these "premium" concert packages are sold via this website and certainly by ticket agencies like Ticketmaster. Or maybe he does know and this is his way of making a statement that it should cease.Anyway i am looking forward to seeing Paul in Manchester. I have a regular ticket as I simply could not afford the premium ticket packages. Interested what others think of this?

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International Students Weekly Bulletin
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Please sign up at the Center for International Studies. We are open from 8:00 am – 4:30 pm, Monday – Friday.
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Anor Close To Returning
The Columbus Dispatch - February 14, 2013 07:32 PM
KISSIMMEE, Fla. – It was a warm summer evening in Columbus, and Bernardo Anor was living his dream. With Sporting Kansas City entering Crew Stadium for an Eastern Conference clash, the second-year player had carved out a role in head coach Robert Warzycha's plans for the evening. A midfielder by trade, Anor had been taking reps at left back to help blunt Kansas City's speed on the wings.
In his first start at the position, Anor absorbed a tough tackle from Kei Kamara and went down in a heap. Anor would stay in the game, but discovered afterward that he had torn the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee and would need at least six months of rehabilitation.
"It is tough when you work pretty hard all year and an injury like this happens to you," he said. "It's tough, knowing that you're in one of your best moments of the year but you have to keep your head up. I know I will get to that point again. I'm just anxious to get there, and once I get there hopefully maintain myself at that level."
Seated on a couch inside the lobby of the team hotel as the Crew trains in Kissimmee and participates in the Walt Disney World Pro Soccer Classic, Anor showed no ill effects from the injury or the time away from the field, however. Although unsure of what position he will play, Anor said he hopes to be available when the Crew opens the regular season March 2 at Chivas USA.
It took the urging of his doctors and coaches not to go full-out when the Crew began preseason training in mid-January.
"I wanted to be ready for as soon as the preseason started," he said. "We agreed that we were going to work our way up and I was going to do therapy for two more weeks, which I got done with that, and for the rest of the season I'll be participating with the team."
Although the knee is recovered, Anor said, other parts of the body have taken some time to catch up.
"There's a lot of parts and a lot of muscles in the body that have not been used for seven months, so we've got to start slowly," he said. "Hopefully when the season starts I'll be fully 100 percent. I want to make the starting 11. That's my goal for every game this season."
The Crew will face Orlando City on Saturday at 6 p.m., then play one more game in the Classic before closing the preseason with the Kirk Urso Memorial Match against North Carolina on Feb. 24.
Anor's goal is to at least see a few minutes of action in one of the three remaining matches.
"I feel strong," he said. "Obviously it's been a while since I stepped on the field so I'm trying to get into a rhythm with the ball and everything. Besides that, I have to be a part of what we're doing right now, get my chances and wait for my opportunity.
"Any position is good for me as long as I'm on the field," he said. "I think I did a pretty good job playing as left back. A midfielder, that's my natural position. Anywhere in the midfield. It's whatever the coaches come up with, I'm willing to try that and do the best I can."


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Friday, February 15th at 4:30 p.m.
La Playa Carmel (Camino Real & 8th Ave., Carmel, CA).
We are protesting La Playa Carmel's callous refusal to commit to re-offer the hotel jobs to the former workers–over half of whom had worked there more than 20 years. The hotel has rehired only 3 of 113 former workers. The hotel closed and workers lost their jobs more than one year ago, November 1, 2011.
Join us in this BOYCOTT rally with your union sisters & brothers, family, friends, and neighbors!


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""The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of beauty is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, but indifference between life and death." "
Black Jack's Crossing Golf Club
Depending upon how far out of the way you like to get, this could be the place for you.
The 27,000-acre Lajitas Golf Resort gives new meaning to the term "out of the way." It sits on the Rio Grande along the Mexico border, in a remote flat area of West Texas that's 300 miles west of San Antonio and 250 miles southeast of El Paso. [The facility was the subject of our very first Getaways feature, in our October/November 2004 issue.–Ed.]
You may feel as if you've traveled through time as well as across miles to arrive at the resort: the newly expanded Lajitas is a retro Old West frontier town–replete with saloon, country store and corral–that in many ways looks as if it has been here since around 1900, back when this was an active border crossing.
The property's par-72 golf course, stretchable to 7,413 yards and a whole lot more comfortable and accommodating at the three more forward tees, ambles up and down through rock canyons and across dry washes. The Lanny Wadkins-designed course, which just opened this year, replaces a layout down in the valley that was washed out when floods ravaged the region. For those with a hankering, there is an opportunity to strike a blow for international solidarity by standing on the back tee of the par-4 15th hole, turning dead left and driving a golf ball over the Rio Grande into Mexico.
When the game ends, you can retire to one of Lajitas' 103 rough-hewn, comfortable rooms, some of them part of the main inn, others spread out through town. And if golf doesn't exhaust your recreational needs, you can enjoy hiking, horse trails, sport shooting, live country and western music or a tour of the onsite longhorn-steer museum. There's also a business conference center.
Lajitas may be remote to get to, but once here you'll have your days and nights full of clear air, clear skies and the wild, wild Southwest.
Black Jack's Crossing Golf Club at Lajitas Golf Resort & Spa, Lajitas, Texas. For information, call (432) 424-5000 or visit www.lajitasgolfresort.com.
Good thing Lajitas has its own airport, as the nearest airline destination is 220 miles to the north in Odessa-Midland. Lajitas International Airport has a 5,000-foot asphalt runway, hangar facilities and jet fuel. You can arrive on your own aircraft or arrange for a charter flight. Free transportation is available from the airport to the resort. For more information, contact the resort at the above phone number.
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Skip to comments.NYC sex workers avoiding condoms due to fear of getting caught for prostitution
Posted on 03/10/2013 6:45:58 PM PDT by Jyotishi
New York - Carrying condoms has resulted in arrest for a growing number of women in New York.
Experts said that the issue may be contributing to a public health crisis in which sex workers are beginning to use condoms less frequently.
In an incident cited by Vice magazine, a New York woman was arrested and charged with loitering for the purpose of prostitution after an officer found a condom in her purse, the New York Daily News reported.
The unnamed woman was wearing jean shorts and a tight shirt and had been standing outdoors for about 30 minutes.
After she had a conversation with a passing man, an officer searched her bag, where he found a condom and 1.25 dollars and arrested her, according to the publication.
While condoms themselves are not illegal, police in many cities are allegedly using them as the basis for evidence of prostitution and arrest, a trend that public health experts say is happening more often as police continue to crack down on the time-old trade.
Despite the fact that most prostitution cases do not go to trial, condoms are frequently vouchered and cited in criminal court complaints and supporting depositions as arrest evidence in prostitution-related cases, the authors of a prominent 2012 study conducted by sex worker advocate the PROS Network wrote.
The study, Public Health Crisis: the Impact of Using Condoms as Evidence of Prostitution in New York City, goes on to say that these policies and practices may have a dangerous impact on safer sex practices in general.
Nearly half the participants in the study who were involved in the sex trade said they had not carried condoms out of fear that it may get them in trouble with the police or lead to their arrest, PROS sociologists wrote.
For all too many people in the sex trade, the importance of safe sex is outweighed by the importance of avoiding police harassment, humiliation, sexual and physical abuse, and arrest, as well as the potential indirect consequences of arrest, the study stated.
New York City itself hands out more than 30 million condoms each year at clinics, health fairs and other centers through the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. But the distribution is nothing short of ironic, given that some key communities are now afraid to carry them.
A New York sex worker told Human Rights Watch as part of the groups 2012 study Sex Workers at Risk that she can only carry one condom because police catch her.
Sex Workers?!?!? How about "Whores"?
Next step for New York...
Serial numbers on the condoms and mandatory registration.
We're after power and we mean it. You fellows were pikers, but we know the real trick, and you'd better get wise to it. There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them...you create a nation of lawbreakers and then you cash in on guilt. Now that's the system, Mr. Rearden."
-- Dr. Floyd Ferris (Atlas Shrugged)
The Department of Health and Mental Hygiene? What?
And a special concealed carry permit, otherwise must open carry.
They are going to see a massive spike of STDs in the heterosexual population in addition to the homosexual population.
1.25 dollars? A buck and a quarter? Grounds for search... tight pants and loitering?
She probably was a "ho", but what about unreasonable search?
I can't get past NYC sex worker. What is a NYC sex worker?
But the mayor has cut the large drinks.
It's happened already.
Never mentioned by the MSM though.
That's why the "healthcare" meme resonates with young adult voters.
When I was that age, nobody gave a rip about health insurance.
> "...you create a nation of lawbreakers..."
Men carrying cash or credit/debit cards in their wallets may be arrested next on the grounds that they may be looking for a prostitute.
"Sex workers"
Nothing like a little linguistic tweaking to manipulate society.
We pronounced it "free clinic" in the days before we got responsible and paid our own way.
What's now NYC was originaly founded by the Dutch who named it New Amsterdam. When the English took over, it became New York, reflecting their sensibilities. Now that the totalitarian commies have taken over perhaps it's time to rename it New Pyongyang.
Jack and Jill went up the hill,
Each with a buck and a quarter.
When they came down Jill had two-fifty...
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A sex worker is a person who works in the sex industry. The term is used in reference to all those in all areas of the sex industry including those who provide direct sexual services as well as the staff of such industries. Some sex workers are paid to engage in sexually explicit behavior which involve varying degrees of physical contact with clients (prostitutes, escorts, some but not all professional dominants); pornography models and actors engage in sexually explicit behavior which are filmed or photographed. Phone sex operators have sexually-oriented conversations with clients, and do auditive sexual roleplay. Other sex workers are paid to engage in live sexual performance, such as web cam sex[3] and performers in live sex shows. Some sex workers perform erotic dances and other acts for an audience (striptease, Go-Go dancing, lap dancing, Neo-burlesque, and peep shows).
Thus, although the term is sometimes viewed as a synonym or euphemism for prostitute, it is more general. Some people use the term to avoid invoking the stigma associated with the word prostitute.
Why they changed it I can't say. People just liked it better that way.
> I cant get past NYC sex worker. What is a NYC sex worker?
This site could have an answer:
The Sex Workers Project
Oh my goodness.
Oh my goodness.
Undocumented climax facilitation experts.
Whores or not, what gives the police the right to search them? So she was standing on the street for 30 minutes and spoke with someone. So what? Did the police actually witness her offer sex for money? No they did not.
Even whores deserve to be presumed innocent and treated with respect due all citizens. Get a warrant if there's probable cause she's committing a crime.
Are you saying that loitering shouldn't be considered a crime?
No parole
Busting possible hos is likely way safer and easier than trying to bust Obama youts.
"...Go-Go dancing..."
Go-Go dancing?? Goldie Hawn on "Laugh-In" was a sex worker?
Why not ballet and chorus line too?
Hey that's not 72 virgins (honest, I counted(.
Is that her knee sticking out below the sign, or a sausage?
Drone magnet.
Loitering may be a crime, but what do the contents of her bag have to do with loitering? If the cops catch someone doing something illegal, do they then have the right to search everything you own? Do they also have the right to confiscate anything that may remotely be related to the crime, aka asset forfeiture. The courts say the latter is OK, but it's clearly unconstitutional. Private property may not be taken for public use (or otherwise) without just compensation. Burden of proof should be on the government, not the citizen.
Its just another lefty animal trying to keep the child prostitutes with the pimps who love and care for them.
"What about Pole dancers?"
Well, I've read that if a woman really wants to dress "sexy" she should leave something to the imagination and in that regard your female Pole dancer seems to have the situation covered.
"1.25 dollars? A buck and a quarter? Grounds for search... tight pants and loitering?"
This sounds bogus.
I thought they couldn't arrest someone for that without evidence that the person made an offer and negotiated a price.
"Sex workers"..."undocumented immigrants"....they're hijacking the language.
I'd prefer New Sodom...or New Calcutta.
Me, I prefer "immigrant workers" and "undocumented sex".
Girlfriend or boyfriend — "Unpaid sex worker"
How in the world would they distinguish 'ladies of the night' from average 20 somethings these days who probably have condoms just in case they pick up somebody cute in a bar? In fact, I'm surprised the 'ladies' haven't used that excuse!
Good one! I thought you were going to write that you told her, "Sure I'd love to have some fun sweetheart, I'll be right back with a toothbrush."
and that extra large condoms are outlawed by Hizzoner....
This is one of the dumbest things I have ever heard.
Just say you got the condoms at school. Tell them you don't charge anything, so there isn't prostitution.
Or are they offended by the word "prostitute"??
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Anytime I can get a progressive/dissenting Catholic magazine/blog like the Jesuit-run America simultaneously to quote papal documents, defend the Magisterium of the Catholic Church, embrace the Natural Law and even yearn for a theological investigation "by those charged with oversight for the Church's doctrine" of a writer suspected of heresy, I consider that I have had a good day.
And to think that all this was prompted by two sentences of mine quoted in a New York Times story on an attempt by adjunct professors at Pittsburgh's Duquesne University to form a union! Times reporter Mark Oppenheimer asked how I made sense of the resistance on the part of Duquesne, a Catholic University, to unionizing efforts by adjunct professors in light of the Church's teaching about unions. We had a pleasant half hour talk on the subject in which I first explained that the Church generally looked favorably on unions – certainly not all of them, at all times or in all places, and not at all they do, and not as an end in themselves, but rather for the well-being of those workers and their families (i.e., that the Church's support for unions is contingent). This favorable bias does not mean that workers are obligated to join a union, nor that management is obligated to accept the terms of a union. The right to join a union, in Church teaching, is rooted in the natural right of association, which of course also means that people have the right not to associate. It all boils down to the details of the specific case, meaning that Duquesne was probably considering the ever-rising costs of education and its impact on the lives of students and their families.
It was in this context that I uttered what the America magazine/blog writer Vincent Miller deemed offensive when I observed that Pope Leo XIII wrote Rerum Novarum, "In the industrial revolution, [when] the church was concerned about communism, and not just capitalism but savage capitalism . . . People were being brutalized. That's just not the case in Pittsburgh today." (more…)


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November 14, 2005 WIC Update
SUBJECT: Reminder - November 14, 2005 - New Formula Approval Process
SUBJECT: Revised WIC Training Registration Form and Training Schedule
SUBJECT: HANDS Training Clarification
SUBJECT: Printing of Forms
SUBJECT: Proxy Form Reminder
SUBJECT: Enfamil Gentlease LIPIL Availability
- Monday November 14, 2005 is the day the LWPs' nutritionist/Registered Dietitian/CPA is allowed to approve certain formulas. Please review your e-mail of October 17, 2005 for the details and revised Formula Reference Sheet.
- Revised WIC Training Registration Form - Attached is the revised WIC training registration form. This form now includes Track, HANDS, and HANDS refresher training registration information. Also attached is the training calendar for January 2006 through June 2006. Please contact the trainer listed on the schedule for any questions concerning a particular training. Please begin using the new registration form immediately.
- HANDS Training Clarification - There has been some confusion on who should and should not attend the regular 3-day HANDS training. HANDS training is only for those WIC employees who will be keying WIC health assessment, income, or other data into HANDS, or printing food instruments. If your agency is going direct entry, that does not necessarily mean that everyone in the agency must attend HANDS training. If an employee will not be using HANDS for any reason, they do not need to attend HANDS. If you have any questions about whether an employee needs to attend HANDS or not, please contact Melissa Seaver at 800-392-8209. Please refer to ER# 3.01500 in the current WOM & Resource Center for further information.
- One issue that came up at the Missouri WIC Association Meeting in October was that LWPs are printing forms for use during the certification process. Here are updates on the forms to be used for Direct Entry. The new forms in English and Spanish to be used for Direct Entry are being developed and will be available at the DHSS warehouse by early December. In addition, the master copies of translated Rights and Responsibilities for the WIC certification will be revised and mailed to LWPs. The WIC 1 and WIC 2 forms are available in the DHSS warehouse.
- Proxy Form Reminder - WIC Policy (ER# 3.03800 Section D. 4. b.) states the local WIC provider may develop a form to use instead of a participant's note. This optional LWP form compliments your required local proxy policy and can be as individual as your agency's policy. As has been stated before in many settings, by January 1, 2006 each agency will use the standard WIC forms. The optional proxy form is not considered a standard WIC form. Therefore you will be able to continue to use your current proxy form unless you had modified a standard WIC form such as the WIC-30 to accommodate proxies. In that case, you will need a new alternative.
For direct entry agencies one option is to copy the proxy form on the back of the HWPR form as you do with the Rights and Responsibilities. If you are not sure how to handle your particular situation contact Glenn Studebaker by e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com or 1-800-392-8209 for technical assistance.
- The State WIC office has heard from some local WIC providers that the Mead Johnson formula Gentlease Lipil is not available at the WIC vendors. Before issuing the Gentlease Lipil, please contact vendors in your area to find out if it is available. We are awaiting communication from Mead Johnson Nutritionals in hopes of finding out how long this availability problem will last. We will notify the LWPs when we hear back from Mead Johnson.


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New UN Collaborating Centre for Energy Efficient Lighting Opens in Beijing
Beijing (China), 31 October 2012 - Efforts by developing countries to phase-out inefficient incandescent lamps received a significant boost today as the UN and partners announced the opening of the Global Efficient Lighting Centre (GELC) in Beijing, China.
Launched by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Chinese National Lighting Test Centre, GELC is designed to support the rapid deployment of energy-efficient technologies in developing and emerging countries.
To date, almost 50 developing and emerging countries have committed to phasing out incandescent lamps by 2016, under the en.lighten initiative - a partnership between UNEP and the Global Environemnt Facility (GEF).
According to a UNEP assessment released last June, a total of five per cent of global electricity consumption could be saved every year through a transition to efficient lighting, resulting in annual worldwide savings of over US$ 110 billion.
The yearly savings in electricity of the phase-out would be equivalent to closing over 250 large coal-fired power plants, resulting in avoided investment costs of approximately US$ 210 billion. Additionally, the 490 megatonnes (Mt) of CO2 savings per year is equivalent to the emissions of more than 122 million mid-size cars.
"One of the most cost-effective ways to contribute to the reduction of global carbon emissions is the phase-out of inefficient lighting technologies," said Achim Steiner, UN Under-Secretary-General and UNEP Executive Director.
"Increasing numbers of countries are now achieving major financial savings, generating green jobs, and seeing reductions in mercury, sulphur dioxide, and other pollutants from power stations, through a switch to efficient lighting. Ambitious policies and partnerships must be seized if the social, economic, and environmental benefits of a transition to a low-carbon, resource efficient green economy are to be realized."
The newly-launched Collaborating Centre supports developing and emerging countries by assisting in the establishment or strengthening of national and/or regional lighting laboratories by:
Projects undertaken by the Centre include a lamp quality testing project, conducted in participation with the en.lighten initative. It aims to strengthen national quality control and testing systems and to encourage the development of measurement, verification and enforcement programs in fourteen countries.
Due to the technological shift towards innovative LED technology, there is a great opportunity for countries to leapfrog to this advanced lighting solution in national markets.
Although LED lamps are currently expensive to buy for individual consumers, bulk procurement by governments, tax incentives and subsidies are making them a viable alternative. LEDs do not contain any mercury and last up to ten times longer than their CFL counterparts.
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Key Facts About Efficient Lighting:
About the National Lighting Test Centre
Founded in 1975, the National Lighting Test Centre is one of the most widely respected lighting test institutions in China. It is an authorized national testing institution recognized by the Chinese State Bureau of Quality and Technical Supervision. The lab has been contracted as a certified facility for the European Restriction of the Use of Certain Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic Equipment (RoHS) testing.
With its innovative equipment and team of highly qualified technicians, NLTC's primary service is third-party testing and certification testing for a wide range of lighting products such as light sources, luminaries, and ballasts.
In addition to testing procedures, the NLTC is involved in the development of testing equipment and national and international standards. It organizes round robin tests with international labs, assists other countries to establish their own national labs.
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I was pleased to see Mozilla static analysis mentioned on lwn. Yes indeed, the mailing list has been pretty dead (most of our communication happens on irc.mozilla.org #static). I completely failed to build a community around my static analysis tools. Perhaps more people will try Dehydra now that it's getting into Debian. The hydras are still alive, evidence can be seen in the mercurial commit log. Development has slowed because the hydras are now considered to be feature-complete and my primary focus is elsewhere in Mozilla now.
As to why open source static analysis has failed to take off, I have a few theories. I think the main problem is that static analysis requires a compiler/correctness/type-system-nerd/large-scale-development-nerd type personality. That's a pretty rare intersection of hobbies to begin with. One also has to hate the stone age that C/C++ ecosystem we are in, but not move on to shiny new Haskell/Ocaml/whatever communities.
Have I failed at igniting the static analysis revolution?
- My goal primary goal was: provide a way to analyze Mozilla source code to speed up our development + refactoring efforts.
- My secondary goal was to make sure that whatever work I do, nobody else has to suffer through the unbelievably sucky infrastructure cruft I had to work through.
- Lastly, I did put in some effort at promoting open source static analysis (by giving talks at conferences, etc) since working in an active community is more fun.
Mozilla side:
I'm happy to report that I achieved a culture shift at Mozilla. Instead of people saying "oh god, I can't find all instances of ___ issue in 3million lines of C++ code", it's pretty common to hear "lets solve this through static analysis". Dehydra was designed to take the bitchwork (boilerplate of compiler integration, etc) out of static analysis so one can focus on the analysis part. New Dehydra users within Mozilla seem to confirm that.
Instead of pondering whether certain tool-assisted refactorings are feasible, we plan to embark on some now (turned out we were understaffed to keep up with tool output and overburdened by api compatibility before; more on this in a future blog post).
No More Static Analysis Bitchwork:
The worst aspect of dealing with C++ is parsing it. The second worst aspect is dealing with the preprocessor. With respect to parsing C++ we went from weirdo-custom-frontends(ie Elsa, EDG, etc) and "GCC will never allow plugins, don't waste your time" to GCC adopting a plugin architecture that suited my static analysis needs. I also implemented source-location transformation tracking(-K) in mcpp, so nobody has to suffer through undoing braindamage inflicted by the C proprocessor again.
I hear at least a couple of people benefited from MCPP work and I take partial credit for every new analysis GCC plugin. I suspect I saved a few person-months for somebody 🙂
Btw, I think Chris Lattner's from-scratch effort on Clang is way awesomer than anything I could ever accomplish.
Conferences & Stuff:
I admit complete and utter failure in this regard. Most open source people have low regard for static analysis. Linus seems to take a million-monkeys-with-type-writers approach (ala the open source eyeballs approach to security) to ensuring kernel code quality (which is a reasonable approach when you have mobs of contributors). Most other projects do not have the resources to spare on unproven tech such as static analysis.
To make matters worse, at first people thought JavaScript was a toy language worth only cut'n'pasting from recipes online. Then just as JavaScript was getting more popular, SpiderMonkey embedding got buggier and made for some unpleasant first experiences with the Hydras.
There isn't much to show for my work outside of Mozilla; that's fine since my primary goal was Mozilla 🙂 The Hydras aren't dead, they are in maintenance mode.
I'm glad to see python-as-gcc-plugin approach, it seems to fill the same niche as Treehydra. I regret not starting out with Python (I think it's slightly better than JavaScript for this task), I hope David Malcolm succeeds in attracting wider interest.
PS. I'm super-excited about the new DXR work. DXR is something that makes my daily life easier. DXR is by far the smartest code-indexing system out there, it's bound to transform my life as a developer far more than any static analysis ever could 🙂


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