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September 29, 2014
Glimmerglass with frangipani
Glimmerglass arrives at Margo Lanagan's house. Glimmerglass with lemon-scented gums. Glimmerglass with frangipani. Glimmerglass with bricks. Evidently it goes well with everything!
September 27, 2014
Death of a wordsmith
Micah Mattix on the death of critic D. G. Myers here. Patrick Kurp is putting together a memorial of words from many writers and friends, and I'll post more links later. Critic without fear, fierce lover of literature, wordsmith bold to talk about cancer and religion and humor and many another thing, family man, professor... may his memory be a blessing.
September 24, 2014
At SIBA and Stella's in Norfolk
With Luisa Igloria at Stella's
I've been out and about with Glimmerglass--spent three days in Norfolk, Virginia to attend the Southern Independent Booksellers trade show and was no doubt the most memorable person heard there because I had raging laryngitis almost the entire time. At Sunday afternoon's The Moveable Feast (where a writer plunges from table to table of booksellers), I sounded
I've been out and about with Glimmerglass--spent three days in Norfolk, Virginia to attend the Southern Independent Booksellers trade show and was no doubt the most memorable person heard there because I had raging laryngitis almost the entire time. At Sunday afternoon's The Moveable Feast (where a writer plunges from table to table of booksellers), I sounded
September 17, 2014
Oooops
My macbook just suffered a cruel death just in time for my trip to support Glimmerglass (and do a few other things!) so I may be a little scarce here for a while.
September 16, 2014
Hodgepodgery
Chapter header by Clive Hicks-Jenkins for Glimmerglass
Photo from the Artlog
On the Move
I'll be off soon, abandoning the rest of the family to do some events for Glimmerglass and attend to some other matters. Events are scheduled for: Norfolk, Virginia (SIBA trade show and "Moveable Feast of Authors" plus "Double Trouble" reading in town with Luisa Igloria); Athens, Georgia (a reading with
Photo from the Artlog
On the Move
I'll be off soon, abandoning the rest of the family to do some events for Glimmerglass and attend to some other matters. Events are scheduled for: Norfolk, Virginia (SIBA trade show and "Moveable Feast of Authors" plus "Double Trouble" reading in town with Luisa Igloria); Athens, Georgia (a reading with
September 15, 2014
Mercer at PW
Congratulations to Mercer University Press, director Marc Jolley, and staff on Mercer's 35th anniversary! Here they are on the back cover of Publishers Weekly. Below, see them on the interior back cover. (You can find Glimmerglass on one of those, and me on the other.)
As someone who writes both poetry and fiction and who values collaboration, I've inevitably found a wild range of
As someone who writes both poetry and fiction and who values collaboration, I've inevitably found a wild range of
September 11, 2014
Real / irreal
Clive photographs the title page.
Glimmerglass.
Art by Clive Hicks-Jenkins.
Design by Mary-Frances Glover Burt.
For an essay of mine having to do with what is called fantastic and what is called realistic, please go here to the Mercer blog. And here's a taste:
Given the way books are discussed in our time, it’s possible to say that my A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage is a
Glimmerglass.
Art by Clive Hicks-Jenkins.
Design by Mary-Frances Glover Burt.
For an essay of mine having to do with what is called fantastic and what is called realistic, please go here to the Mercer blog. And here's a taste:
Given the way books are discussed in our time, it’s possible to say that my A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage is a
September 10, 2014
editor John Wilson's shortlist for 2014, etc.
1. ART OPENING
If you're in upstate/central New York, here's an idea for today... See you there if you go! I'll be there with some painter friends.
Tonight, an opening in Oneonta at Marten-Mullen.
I'm going with painter friend Ashley Cooper--
our friend Yolanda Sharpe (of Detroit) is acting
chair of the art department at SUNY. One sad note:
artist Gilda Snowden died two days ago.
2.
If you're in upstate/central New York, here's an idea for today... See you there if you go! I'll be there with some painter friends.
Tonight, an opening in Oneonta at Marten-Mullen.
I'm going with painter friend Ashley Cooper--
our friend Yolanda Sharpe (of Detroit) is acting
chair of the art department at SUNY. One sad note:
artist Gilda Snowden died two days ago.
2.
September 9, 2014
The illuminator, cock-a-hoop!
Clive Hicks-Jenkins
13 hours ago · Edited
My copies of 'Glimmerglass' have arrived from Mercer University Press in the US, neatly and safely packed. I'm cock-a-hoop with delight. This is SUCH a pretty book, from its generously-sized reproductions of my chapter-headings, to the tawny endpapers picking up colours from the jacket. Mercer and the designer Mary-Frances Glover Burt have
13 hours ago · Edited
My copies of 'Glimmerglass' have arrived from Mercer University Press in the US, neatly and safely packed. I'm cock-a-hoop with delight. This is SUCH a pretty book, from its generously-sized reproductions of my chapter-headings, to the tawny endpapers picking up colours from the jacket. Mercer and the designer Mary-Frances Glover Burt have
September 8, 2014
Books-and-words gallimaufry
Updatery
I have updated the Glimmerglass page, cutting and adding and tweaking, and wouldn't mind a bit any comments to improve it. Launch events will start later in the month. Right now I'm working on the final stages of a manuscript...
The Uses of Tolkien
I've noticed a growing number of slight mentions of of Tolkien in the context of current events. Victor Davis Hansen has just dug into
I have updated the Glimmerglass page, cutting and adding and tweaking, and wouldn't mind a bit any comments to improve it. Launch events will start later in the month. Right now I'm working on the final stages of a manuscript...
The Uses of Tolkien
I've noticed a growing number of slight mentions of of Tolkien in the context of current events. Victor Davis Hansen has just dug into
