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The Birdwisher
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Anna Joy Springer (Goodreads Author)
The Birdwisher is a novella about a girl, a pigeon-detective and a murderous mystery. Written after Dashiell Hammet's "Dead Yellow Woman," this debut book from Anna Joy Springer (Blatz, Cypher in the Snow, The Gr'ups, Sister Spit) is beautifully illustrated throughout by Sam McWilliams. Strange, grotesque, noir and rendered in gorgeous inventive prose, The Birdwisher is th...more
Paperback, 109 pages
Published
2009
by Birds of Lace
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i love this book. i'm going to write about it probably in a blog post.
here's the blog post: http://www.montevidayo.com/?p=554
The Birdwisher is a modest, zine-y novella, beautifully illustrated by artist Sam McWilliams. Big, clunky typeface, winkingly lo-fi production [edit: i don't really know what i mean by this]. It is a treasure. The subtitle is “a murder mystery for very old young adults,” and in her acknowledgments, Springer says she wrote the story “on top of” Dashiell Hammet’s “Dead Yello...more
here's the blog post: http://www.montevidayo.com/?p=554
The Birdwisher is a modest, zine-y novella, beautifully illustrated by artist Sam McWilliams. Big, clunky typeface, winkingly lo-fi production [edit: i don't really know what i mean by this]. It is a treasure. The subtitle is “a murder mystery for very old young adults,” and in her acknowledgments, Springer says she wrote the story “on top of” Dashiell Hammet’s “Dead Yello...more
i went to san francisco and came back with like 6 or 7 books by bay area authors, and the weird thing is that i didn't even do it on purpose?
The story here is interesting, ostensibly borrowing from the genre of YA, casting a pigeon who can speak to a young girl and who is a detective in the lead role. The opening is intense, lovely, and the drawings fit the aesthetic it seems, but honestly aren't my "cup of tea" so to speak. This are dissolved at the end but it's kind of quietly explosive in a...more
The story here is interesting, ostensibly borrowing from the genre of YA, casting a pigeon who can speak to a young girl and who is a detective in the lead role. The opening is intense, lovely, and the drawings fit the aesthetic it seems, but honestly aren't my "cup of tea" so to speak. This are dissolved at the end but it's kind of quietly explosive in a...more
Hello! I am the editor/publisher od Birds of Lace, the press that put out this incredibly brilliant, strange, beautiful, sad & uncanny novella. Do I even need to tell you how much I love it? I do feel that this book being in the world has made it a better place, no lie. I don't have librarian status so I can't edit the book's information, but I wanted to write, here, that it is available at birdsoflace.etsy.com. Read it & weep. xox
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YA for very old young adults, as it says on the inside - my review here: http://www.pankmagazine.com/pankblog/...
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Anna Joy Springer was a punk singer in the early 90's Bay Area punk and homocore scenes (Blatz, The Gr'ups, and Cypher in the Snow.) She toured with Sister Spit in 1999 and 2000. She now teaches writing at UC San Diego where she also directs the MFA program in Writing.
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