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December 5, 2014

Hodgepodge soup

Ashley Norwood Cooper!

next event
2-5 this Sunday at 114 Lake St., Cooperstown
Book signing and open studio with Ashley Norwood Cooper. Books (various of mine plus a little catalogue of the deployment series), monoprints, paintings from this series and the prior cut-away houses series, beaujolais nouveau and wine and goodies till everything runs out!

favorite Glimmerglass review of the week (
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Published on December 05, 2014 05:57

December 3, 2014

Confetti! And an invite...

A piece from the deployment series...
This one always seems to me a link
to her prior series with cutaway houses,
as well as relating to all the screens and
portals in the deployment series...
the figure in the window in the next house,
the reflection in the window...

Had a lovely, well-attended reading-interview-QandA at the Village Library of Cooperstown--any time they have to get out more
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Published on December 03, 2014 18:56

November 30, 2014

"More Light! More Light!"

St. Louis with scepter
and crown of thorns

Eight hundred years ago this year, St. Louis a.k.a. Louis IX was born. Surely his dust is spinning in the grave, and surely his devout mother, Blanche of Castile, has averted her face from the city of his name, wounded by the endless complications and after-shocks of our inhumanity to one another...

Somehow I think of Anthony Hecht's powerful "More
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Published on November 30, 2014 21:07

November 29, 2014

Next up: reading at The Village Library of Cooperstown. And a pail of snow. So wash your face in crystal...

Just 'cause: end-of-November ice. And slippery snow. And snowmen. Because Yankeedom in winter. Because fire. Because cats. Because poetry. Because Emily. Also Paul Tree (leafy Facebook alias) aka Paul Digby, who made this. (And because nobody should be allowed to take off Emily Dickinson's clothes.)


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Comments and review clips HERE






Reading from Glimmerglass, 

Q and A
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Published on November 29, 2014 13:32

November 28, 2014

Next up: Village Library of Cooperstown

Comments and review clips HERE






Reading from Glimmerglass, 

Q and A afterward...



Nights at the Round Table series



Village Library of Cooperstown

Cooperstown New York



3 December 2014

Wednesday

7:00 p.m.




I know of no writers other than Marly Youmans who have the genius to combine the spine-tingling suspense of Gothic storytelling with the immense charm, grace, glamour,
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Published on November 28, 2014 13:32

November 27, 2014

Signing at the Fenimore Art Museum

Twelve authors signing....


Multi-author signing 

from 11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m 

at the Fenimore Art Museum... 

Friday, November 28


I'll be signing copies of Thaliad, A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage, and the new book, Glimmerglass.  It won't be nearly as much fun as you're not there, so come on out!
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Published on November 27, 2014 15:15

November 24, 2014

Books and Culture review, Glimmerglass

Chapter header,Clive Hicks-Jenkins


I'm grateful to editor John Wilson for his lovely review of Glimmerglass--I hope that some day we meet and I get to thank him in person for his long interest in my books. I am grateful to him.

Clips:

From the intro: Some years ago, I described the novelist and poet Marly Youmans as "the best-kept secret among contemporary American writers." That's still
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Published on November 24, 2014 08:34

November 23, 2014

Peeping Thomasina

Seen online--fun recent quotes from artists about Glimmerglass and more...























Jackie Morris Jolly good. Mine is the same and I NEED all of your books by Marly Youmans

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Clive Hicks-Jenkins Marly Youmans is a wonderful writer, and so with or without artwork by me, she deserves being on your shelves. I loved working on 'Glimmerglass', and I
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Published on November 23, 2014 13:17

November 21, 2014

More thoughts on the LeGuin NBA Speech, etc.

"Here, every story, in its own way
and from its own universe, told in its
own mode, explains that there is no
better spirit in all of American letters
than that of Ursula LeGuin." -Slate

ON THE LEGUIN NBA SPEECH
Especially for Midori Snyder Crankypants!

* CAPITALISM
It tends to be hard to accept people condemning capitalism roundly when capitalism has been so very good to them personally.
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Published on November 21, 2014 08:17

November 20, 2014

Updatery and good words

Updatery

In a few hours, I'll be off to Saratoga, New York, where I'll read from Glimmerglass tonight at the Northshire Bookstore on Broadway. I've never read there before, and it's a weeknight, so I'm crossing fingers and toes in hopes of seeing a reasonable number of human beings in chairs at 7:00 p.m.

My Tuesday event at the Delhi Women's Club went off wonderfully--I loved talking to a big
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Published on November 20, 2014 08:06