Marly Youmans's Blog, page 122

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

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...

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.

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

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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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.

At an Angle

A delayed post: clearly written a few days ago.

Waking, I remembered that the marvelous Maurice Sendak died yesterday. Amazing that the planet can go on without his curmudgeonly verdicts and masterful strokes of brush and pen.

His was a life that mattered to many in the world of books and theatre and bedtime reading. I shall have to hunt up my beloved The Juniper Tree and have a little mental

Mole & Pip

Thanks to Dale Favier for continuing to meditate on A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage on his blog as he moves through the book. I liked what he had to say from the start, as in his contrast with Faulkner--that in the book fullness, not emptiness is behind all things. His blog, mole, is wonderfully full of what Melville called deep diving and new poems. His latest Pip comment: It takes a