First Cousin Once Removed (2012)

Barbara Estrin: Self

Quotes 

• Barbara Estrin : [YOUNGER EDWIN On video recording]  I'm Edwin Honig and I've been around for 70 years, so I think. I've been a poet and writer... Born in Brooklyn, NY, September 3rd, 1919... Abraham Lincoln High School 1935... City College of New York... University of Wisconsin at Madison. Studied English...

  Barbara Estrin : [OLD EDWIN]  Who's this?

  Barbara Estrin : [YOUNGER EDWIN, Continuing in background]  ... graduated in '41, BA in Latin American Affairs, Spanish and Political Science.

  Alan Berliner : [Voice]  He's the man who you once were.

  Barbara Estrin : [YOUNGER EDWIN, continuing]  "... 2-1/2 years, Second World War, European Theater. University of Wisconsin, MA in...

  Barbara Estrin : [OLD EDWIN]  I'm not impressed.

  Barbara Estrin : [YOUNGER EDWIN, Continuing]  ... Editor of 'New Mexico Quarterly'. Did I mention getting a Guggenheim?

  [Small laugh] 

  Barbara Estrin : Got a Guggenheim. Got a year off writing fiction, allegory, satire. Went to Harvard...

  Barbara Estrin : [OLD EDWIN]  He's trying to be someone.

  Barbara Estrin : [YOUNGER EDWIN, Continuing]  Brown University. Professor of English and Comparative Literature. Director of the writing program... Experimentation. Started a small press, Copper Beach Press. Published a good many books, one on allegory.

  [Long Pause] 

  Barbara Estrin : I've forgotten the title. Before I knew it, 26 years had passed. Retired in 19...

  Barbara Estrin : [OLD EDWIN]  He knows what to do with his head. I don't.