Robert Levy's Blog, page 48
September 30, 2014
Dark skies over Manhattan this morning.
Dark skies over Manhattan this morning.
September 28, 2014
First pass pages complete
Recently finished my first pass pages for The Glittering World! For those unfamiliar, first pass pages are the first time the pages are laid out and actually look like a book, although they’re not bound and the actual pages are otherwise plain (i.e. on 8 1/2 x 11 paper). Catching not-quite-last-minute changes, typos, and the like before it goes back to my editor once more. It’s getting so close I can taste it!
September 10, 2014
Recently I finished Through the Woods, Emily Carroll’s...
Recently I finished Through the Woods, Emily Carroll’s extraordinary collection of original horror stories in graphic form, and I did something I almost never, ever do: I read it again. Five bloody tales of the human inside the monster, and the monster inside of us. Delicious, and disturbing.
The artwork and words are a perfect marriage of disturbing fairy-tale beauty and darkness, Dame Darcy’s swirling maelstrom of barely repressed neo-Victoriana and stylized violence matched with the haunted specificity of Angela Carter. Every page in this volume is its own work of deeply felt and exquisitely executed virtuosity.
I cannot recommend it highly enough.
September 9, 2014
The Wicker Man meets Joe’s Scarecrow Village meets Karl...
The Wicker Man meets Joe’s Scarecrow Village meets Karl Edward Wagner’s Sticks on the North Fork of Long Island’s Bailie Beach in Mattituck.
September 6, 2014
September 4, 2014
The Glittering World, my debut supernatural thriller from...
The Glittering World, my debut supernatural thriller from Gallery/Simon & Schuster, will be released worldwide on February 10, 2015.
More information at http://www.therobertlevy.com/.
September 3, 2014
The shadow self is the representation/manifestation of the...
The shadow self is the representation/manifestation of the rejected or denied aspects of our own personality. These aspects can be negative or positive characteristics, drives or belief systems that we do not accept as a part of who we are, so they are pushed down out of our awareness or even out of ourselves.
— Jenny Morgan in Juxtapoz Magazine, Sept. 2014
September 2, 2014
When my usually stoic husband told me that Beautiful Ruins made...
When my usually stoic husband told me that Beautiful Ruins made him weep like a baby, I knew I had to read it. And while I didn’t find myself in tears—okay, maybe I had some dust in my eye at the end—I enjoyed it every bit as much as he did.
Effortless writing and a cinematic scope, with alternating points of view, multiple time periods, and a spot-on ear for dialogue… What’s not to love? The novel, in the depth and fulfillment of its grand ambitions, was reminiscent of A Visit From the Goon Squad.
Best of all, I also listened to the audiobook, which was brilliantly narrated by my old upstairs neighbor and pal Edoardo Ballerini—his Richard Burton is everything and more.
August 28, 2014
Enjoy it while it lasts!
Enjoy it while it lasts!
August 27, 2014
For while she spoke, the ground began to rise,
And gather'd...
For while she spoke, the ground began to rise,
And gather'd round her feet, her legs, and thighs;
Her toes in roots descend, and spreading wide,
A firm foundation for the trunk provide:
Her solid bones convert to solid wood,
To pith her marrow, and to sap her blood:
Her arms are boughs, her fingers change their kind,
Her tender skin is harden'd into rind.
-- Ovid, "Metamorphoses"
