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May 22, 2012
Lovely Books and Culture review
A long and magnificent review of A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage by writer Linda McCullough Moore at Books and Culture, edited by that great bookman, John Wilson.
A taste: Which brings us—not before time—to Marly Youmans, whose new novel A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage is literary fiction at its finest. (Tell me you didn't see that coming.) Here is fiction which required the
A taste: Which brings us—not before time—to Marly Youmans, whose new novel A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage is literary fiction at its finest. (Tell me you didn't see that coming.) Here is fiction which required the
May 20, 2012
Mole notes
Poet Dale Favier has been reading A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage and making notes about it as he goes on his blog, mole. Now he has put all the comments together as a lovely fat Amazon note. I enjoyed reading it very much!
On the road & a new review--
Thanks to books editor Greg Langley at The Baton Rouge Advocate for this morning's new review, tracing the path of a Pip who by the end of the book "is not yet out of his teens, young and beautiful and already a thousand years old." He writes that "Youmans tells Pip’s story in her lyric, poetic voice, offering readers vivid characters and unforgettable scenery. The tragedy that begins the story
May 19, 2012
Another lovely event, this time at Quail Ridge in Raleigh...
Another lovely event, this time at Quail Ridge in Raleigh. Went out to dinner with high school classmates, a former neighbor, and spouses. And am having brunch with the same before dashing off to Salisbury and an afternoon event...
May 18, 2012
Lovely reading at City Lights on Wednesday. Yesterday I d...
Lovely reading at City Lights on Wednesday. Yesterday I drove to Raleigh and then visited a book club; tonight is another reading at Quail Ridge Books. 7:30 p.m.
May 16, 2012
Up: BookLoons review of A Death at the White Camellia Orp...
Up: BookLoons review of A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage: "Highly recommended."
Head of steam!
Having a mad day: just found out that I need to add eight pages to The Foliate Head (poetry book forthcoming in the UK from Stanza Press) for printer's reasons... So Clive, Andrew, and I are scrambling. However, I must rush because I have a reading from A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage tonight at City Lights Bookstore in Sylva, North Carolina at 6:30, and afterward I go to dinner with my
May 14, 2012
from Quail Mail #638
From Nancy [Olson, owner of Quail Ridge Books in Raleigh, NC]: Occasionally I read a new work of fiction that blows me away, and Marly Youman's A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage (Mercer $24) did just that. Every page in this book resonates with beautifully crafted language, a "universal melody that sings of deep loss and conciliation," and a moving story of a
Goodreads Giveaways (24) last chance!
Read chapter one at Scribd ; visit the book page; see the facebook page; try for the Goodreads giveaway of 24 books, April 15-May 15, ending in less than a day; find the Amazon hardcover / ebook or indie books search; order from Mercer.
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May 13, 2012
Sylva Herald & City Lights
Maggie Tobias writes about A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage in the Sylva Herald: reading at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 16th at City Lights Bookstore, Sylva.
