Midori Snyder's Blog, page 65

The Sublime Collaboration of Author Marly Youmans and Artist Clive Hicks-Jenkins: Thaliad

Marly Youmans’ Thaliad (due out November, 2012) offers a healing balm to the swath of nihilistic post-apocalyptic fiction for young adults. Told in free verse reminiscent of heroic epics (Homer meets Gerald Manley Hopkins), Thaliad recounts the aftermath of a...

Drawing The City: An Indian Woman's Remarkable Journey Through Art

Save your pennies and buy this gorgeous book Drawing the City, published by Indian small press Tara Books. It is the collected art and journal of a self taught Indian village woman Tejubehan, whose family worked as itinerant singers. The...

Celebrating Italo Calvino's Birthday With A Film

Today would have been Italo Calvino's 89th birthday and in celebration of that, Israeli children's book author and illustrator Shulamit Serafy released a beautiful short animated film of one of Calvino's short stories, "The Distance From the Moon." This story...

Ernest and Celestine Take to the Screen

Years and years ago I used to read to my children Ernest and Celestine books, written and illustrated by Gabrielle Vincent. Like the best children books, they appealed to me as an adult too, which was a good thing because...

The Dancing Fool

"To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution." Marcus Aurelias. I love this image of the dancing fool by Hans Sebald Beham (1549) and I am working to find a way to get him into Zizola's...

Chris Thile and The Genuis Award

I am totally excited for mandolin player Chris Thile winning the MacArthur Genuis Award ($100 tax free a year for five years!). He is a really gifted musician and he has transformed the usually small voiced background mandolin into a...

The Eyes Have It: Jeweled and Alert

How could I have not known about these beautiful -- but slightly disturbing -- pieces of jewelry? These lovely brooches and necklaces are Georgian Eye Jewellery from 1790--1820 housed at the Victoria and Albert Museum. There is something so magic...

Unpacking a Life in Boxes

We are in the new house -- and despite being one of those modern cookie cutter houses, sandwiched in a development -- it does have its charms. Our new address, however, is not one of them. Who would name a...

We Are Waiting To Be Approved....

And hopefully all will go well and then we can truly move out of the land of endless boxes and wondering where everything is buried, wrapped in paper and waiting to be rediscovered. The new house has two things I...

Bird Women,Terri Windling, and Terry Tempest Williams

If you haven't yet, go and see the fabulous post on Terri Windling's website "When Women Were Birds" -- with excerpts from Terry Tempest Williams When Women Were Birds, Fifty Four Variations on Voice. There's an interesting discussion going on...