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Review plus post, the Star (NC)

Art by Clive Hicks-Jenkins for Glimmerglass.


A novel turn, rich and strange 




Review, Ben Steelman, StarNews 

(Wilmington, North Carolina) 

9 November 2014

   

3-page review begins here

Clip: "Fantasy and myth mix with classic whodunit in “Glimmerglass,” the latest novel from poet and South Carolina native Marly Youmans. This is only detective fiction, though, in the sense that “

Questions from a young artist and writer (answers from a young crone!)

Chapter header vignette
by Clive Hicks-Jenkins
for my new novel, Glimmerglass

I always imagine that if one person asks questions, there are others who would like to find out more. Here are questions I received today, followed by glances at possible answers... I claim no more than "possible answers" because I am just one small person on the face of the planet, and every artist would have a

Home

Home after many weeks and a final Glimmerglass reading-and-signing event at The Doylestown Bookshop, plus a romp through Henry Chapman Mercer's Fonthill castle! Thanks to my generous Doylestown hosts, David and Karin Svahn. Here's a snip from the somnium or dream-vision passage in the book:

In a sunbeam, the angel's tree glittered, bare and silver. Going to it, she found glistening leaves

Next up: NC / PA readings

Glimmerglass readings



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3:00 p.m. Saturday, November 1st

City Lights Bookstore

Sylva, North Carolina



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6:30 p.m. Tuesday, November 4th

The Doylestown Bookshop

Doylestown, Pennsylvania



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Special thanks to Chris Wilcox and the City Lights staff, Krisy Paredes and The Doylestown Bookshop staff, Mary Bullington, and David and Karin Svahn.

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And another thanks



 Thank you to

Heart-in-hand

Thanks to First Things for picking up


"The Mineral Night" 

and 

"A Child in the Likeness of God" 


for First Links. Both poems appear in print and online editions of Books and Culture, edited by John Wilson. The piece of music by Eric Whitacre in "The Mineral Night" can be found here. "A Child in the Likeness of God" was written after reading a report on the condition of unjustly

Two new interviews...

21 October 2014. Cullowhee, North Carolina.


Josie's Kaleidoscope

Here's a long interview conducted by writer Josie Cook... She bumped into me in Ohio when I was teaching at the Antioch Workshops last summer. Thank you, Josie!  

Note: If you click on the link a .pdf file with pictures will be downloaded.

And here's another at Tor.com:

The Pop Quiz at the End of the Universe... with me!

Sylvan lights

I'll be reading from Glimmerglass. Art by Clive Hicks-Jenkins.

Next event: reading and signing

City Lights Bookstore
Sylva, North Carolina
Saturday, November 1st
3:00 p.m.

I'll post some pictures of Norfolk and Athens events soon. But I'm having a good time and doing lots of hiking around the mountains and visiting in the Cullowhee area. I'm probably going to take a quick trip to

Drunk Bay & Athens reading

Art by Clive Hicks-Jenkins

"Drunk Bay"

A story of mine that originally appeared in Postscripts #13 (Winter 2007) is now up at Weird Fiction Review, reprinted with the permission of PS Publishing. It is the rather peculiar result of spending a few days on the island of St. John's, where I once hiked into and along the wild, strange beach of Drunk Bay. Thanks to David Davis and the staff of

Another new review--

Glimmerglass reviewed at BookLoons here.

"Highly recommended."

Glimmerglass with poems and frangipani

Just out from Mercer--
art by Clive Hicks-Jenkins
and design by Mary-Frances Glover Burt

Next Glimmerglass event in Athens

Currently I'm perched on a mountaintop in lovely Cullowhee, North Carolina, where I moved at thirteen, and where family still lives in the realm of Blue Ridge and mist and hummingbirds. I'll be reading from Glimmerglass at the Barnes and Noble in Athens, Georgia on the