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November 20, 2012
Biz and numerology
In answer to a question from a reader about which of my books are in print: A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage, Thaliad (in a couple of weeks), The Foliate Head, The Throne of Psyche, Val/Orson, and... the hardcover of my very first book, Little Jordan. All of those are in print in hardcover, and Thaliad and The Throne of Psyche are available in paperback. Catherwood will be back in print
Yolanda yacks--
Please pop by to take a look at the first part of an interview with Yolanda Sharpe, artist and mezzo-soprano, at the IAM-Otsego website. Interview by brand new webmaster Benjamin Miller. Please leave a comment there if you enjoy their work! Comments off here.
November 19, 2012
The ideal in twilight...
Vignette for Thaliad
by Clive Hicks-Jenkins (Wales)
The time we are given
Will they say of our time in the arts that people chose surface glitter over the glow of transfiguration, shallows over deep-sea depths, flat screens over multiple dimensions? It is harder for artists to achieve in eras when the trivial and the ephemeral crowd the culture, and when artists often run after such things?
by Clive Hicks-Jenkins (Wales)
The time we are given
Will they say of our time in the arts that people chose surface glitter over the glow of transfiguration, shallows over deep-sea depths, flat screens over multiple dimensions? It is harder for artists to achieve in eras when the trivial and the ephemeral crowd the culture, and when artists often run after such things?
November 17, 2012
12 days till...
HAWKING + PEDDLING
Reminder of meritorious possibility! Act on this while eating bitter melon and you will never suffer from monobrow or baldness or general stupidity!
Believe it?
PHOENICIA SPECIAL TILL NOV. 30th
The Phoenicia Publishing (Montreal) pre-order discount price for the hardcover of the upcoming Thaliad is good for 12 more days. If you want a copy, that's a good way to get it,
Reminder of meritorious possibility! Act on this while eating bitter melon and you will never suffer from monobrow or baldness or general stupidity!
Believe it?
PHOENICIA SPECIAL TILL NOV. 30th
The Phoenicia Publishing (Montreal) pre-order discount price for the hardcover of the upcoming Thaliad is good for 12 more days. If you want a copy, that's a good way to get it,
NYC glimpses
Ivory dreams. The National Book Foundation put us up
in The Essex after our first hotel was washed out by Sandy.
This shop window is not far from the hotel.
Lalique and Footlongs
Shop window with reflections of Central Park
trees and equestrian statue.
Art deco portals at the Essex.
"THIS CAR AVAILABLE"
in The Essex after our first hotel was washed out by Sandy.
This shop window is not far from the hotel.
Lalique and Footlongs
Shop window with reflections of Central Park
trees and equestrian statue.
Art deco portals at the Essex.
"THIS CAR AVAILABLE"
November 16, 2012
At the National Book Award frolics
Greek revival ceiling at Cipriani Wall Street.
Rebecca with Anne and Gary Schmidt.
Gary was the wonderful leader of our judging panel.
Bar, Wall Street Cipriani.
With Judith Ortiz Cofer, fellow judge,
Young People's Literature panel.
Judith Ortiz Cofer with Rachel and Steve Sheinkin,
Finalist in Young People's Literature for Bomb.
Our panel's star, Susan Cooper...
(Susan
Rebecca with Anne and Gary Schmidt.
Gary was the wonderful leader of our judging panel.
Bar, Wall Street Cipriani.
With Judith Ortiz Cofer, fellow judge,
Young People's Literature panel.
Judith Ortiz Cofer with Rachel and Steve Sheinkin,
Finalist in Young People's Literature for Bomb.
Our panel's star, Susan Cooper...
(Susan
November 15, 2012
Myers' list of best fiction, 2012
I am just (barely) back from the National Book Award celebrations and will write something about them anon--for now, I'm just linking to critic D. G. Myers' choices for the best fiction of 2012. His choices are not quite the same as the fiction judging panel. Amid much brouhaha, he was just fired from Commentary, so the list is at his A Commonplace Blog. Be sure and look at the end of the list (
November 12, 2012
The 3 Kenneths and the Little Match Girl of Poetry
Could we please get this straight?
There are three poets from approximately the same era named Kenneth. Kenneth Koch, Kenneth Rexroth, and Kenneth Patchen. (You may be interested to know that I am permanently mortified over having become uncontrollable with laughter during a Koch reading in Providence, R. I. back in 1975-ish, back when I was a silly sprat of a girl.)
It was Kenneth Patchen, not
There are three poets from approximately the same era named Kenneth. Kenneth Koch, Kenneth Rexroth, and Kenneth Patchen. (You may be interested to know that I am permanently mortified over having become uncontrollable with laughter during a Koch reading in Providence, R. I. back in 1975-ish, back when I was a silly sprat of a girl.)
It was Kenneth Patchen, not
Veterans Day gallimaufry--
A late addition to the medley here: Critic D. G. Myers with a list of 25 historical novels, including Catherwood.
It's the Veterans Day holiday, and I'm remembering with thanks the generation of my father, Hubert Lafay Youmans, who left life as an impoverished sharecropper's boy at 17 in order to join the Army Air Corps and ended up flying tailgunner in a B-17 in World War II. Lucky for me that
It's the Veterans Day holiday, and I'm remembering with thanks the generation of my father, Hubert Lafay Youmans, who left life as an impoverished sharecropper's boy at 17 in order to join the Army Air Corps and ended up flying tailgunner in a B-17 in World War II. Lucky for me that
November 11, 2012
"There and back again"
Rebecca Beatrice Miller
Still feeling worn from a lingering cold and travel, but I'm back from a day at The Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, Vermont, where my daughter Rebecca and I attended Portfolio Day. (She is currently on extended leave after her sophomore year at Bard College, doing some writing and film jobs this month, and will probably finish up there some year in
Still feeling worn from a lingering cold and travel, but I'm back from a day at The Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, Vermont, where my daughter Rebecca and I attended Portfolio Day. (She is currently on extended leave after her sophomore year at Bard College, doing some writing and film jobs this month, and will probably finish up there some year in
