Marly Youmans's Blog, page 130
March 8, 2012
Tuchman joins Parkman and Adams
Long ago I read A Distant Mirror twice; remembering it now, I suspect that I might really like reading the book a third time. "The calamitous 14th century" had just as much to say to me the second time around as the first, and that was only partly due to faulty memory! Now two of her books have just been released in the Library of America, and Jon Thurber has an article about Tuchman and in
March 7, 2012
Marly talks to Seth Godin
Update: Perhaps I'm not very clear on the tone for this one because people have taken the introduction far more seriously than I meant! No worry. A couple of podcasts (okay, maybe I exaggerated--so I exaggerated!) will not magically transform me into a market-minded maniac. But I am rather fascinated by the slant of view and think he would make a good character. He even looks like a character...
March 6, 2012
Blogger-bloggers and just plain bloggers
All bloggers: Still collecting participants for my online book launch. Slide down to Moonlight Requisition, please!
Note for Blogger-bloggers on spam referral problems: I am no techie, but I have found a solution for a problem that has been popping up on Blogger for a lot of people. Day before yesterday I had some trouble with spam referral, and the information I found online suggested that if
Note for Blogger-bloggers on spam referral problems: I am no techie, but I have found a solution for a problem that has been popping up on Blogger for a lot of people. Day before yesterday I had some trouble with spam referral, and the information I found online suggested that if
March 5, 2012
Clive gets devilish in D. C.
If you haven't been following Clive Hicks-Jenkins and his progress on The Soldier's Tale, you might pop over to the Artlog--choose L'Histoire du Soldat from the Topics menu, and you can see a quick evolution. In addition, if you choose Collaborations with Poets, you can take a look at his work on The Foliate Head and see how the title page above came out of his foliate heads.
Igor
Igor
March 3, 2012
Moonlight Requisition
Blogger? Tumbler? Etc.? Interested in hosting one smallish question (yours) and some information about A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage (Mercer University Press, winner of The Ferrol Sams Award for Fiction) in time for the March 30th book launch? You don't have to be an author or have a blog that focuses primarily on books. All questions will also appear here as individual posts and
Moonlight Requisiton
Blogger? Tumbler? Etc.? Interested in hosting one smallish question (yours) and some information about A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage (Mercer University Press, winner of The Ferrol Sams Award for Fiction) in time for the March 30th book launch? You don't have to be an author or have a blog that focuses primarily on books. All questions will also appear here as individual posts and
March 2, 2012
The Open Secret Society of the Poets
As James Thomson is best known as the author of the poem, "The City of Dreadful Night," he surprises me with his essay, "Open Secret Societies," with its praise for heroes, poets, and saints. The last quarter of his life must have been terribly depressive, as he was insomniac and increasingly isolated by alcoholism and melancholy. But he was youthful when the essay was written, and evidently he
March 1, 2012
Wroth Redux, with chickens--
Cockerel courtesy of sxc.hu
and Philip MacKenzie of London
Approximately one year ago I (the mild-mannered, the peaceable, the tactful) committed a fulmination, a fume, and a fuss entitled Wroth, Wroth with Ted Hughes. It had to do with chickens and old ladies and lovelessness. You may want to rush over and read it all over again (because naturally you have read it once, being all up on
and Philip MacKenzie of London
Approximately one year ago I (the mild-mannered, the peaceable, the tactful) committed a fulmination, a fume, and a fuss entitled Wroth, Wroth with Ted Hughes. It had to do with chickens and old ladies and lovelessness. You may want to rush over and read it all over again (because naturally you have read it once, being all up on
Hard to pin--
PIN-POST TABLE OF CONTENTS
Being rather fat, it needs one!
TO PIN
On the classification of this creature, Marly Youmans
A NEW 'PIN'
A fresh classification for the same
UPDATE ON THE ADDY FOR THE THRONE OF PSYCHE
More news about the Gold Award Addy
Golden butterfly--"gilded butterfly on a needle"
courtesy of sxc.hu and Karen Steiner of Austria.
TO PIN
For publishers and reviewers
Being rather fat, it needs one!
TO PIN
On the classification of this creature, Marly Youmans
A NEW 'PIN'
A fresh classification for the same
UPDATE ON THE ADDY FOR THE THRONE OF PSYCHE
More news about the Gold Award Addy
Golden butterfly--"gilded butterfly on a needle"
courtesy of sxc.hu and Karen Steiner of Austria.
TO PIN
For publishers and reviewers
February 29, 2012
A Gold Addy for The Throne of Psyche
A Gold Addy for The Throne of Psyche
Design team Burt and Burt (Mary-Francis Burt and Jim Burt) won an Addy Gold Award for the design of The Throne of Psyche. The Georgia Addies were engraved lava lamps! (They won another Gold and a Judge's Choice Award for The Divine Comics by my friend Philip Lee Williams, also from Mercer University Press, 2011, as well as several other Addies.) To see
Design team Burt and Burt (Mary-Francis Burt and Jim Burt) won an Addy Gold Award for the design of The Throne of Psyche. The Georgia Addies were engraved lava lamps! (They won another Gold and a Judge's Choice Award for The Divine Comics by my friend Philip Lee Williams, also from Mercer University Press, 2011, as well as several other Addies.) To see
