Marly Youmans's Blog, page 62
June 12, 2014
Playing here instead of blogging today...
Playing here instead of blogging today...
June 11, 2014
on Catherwood
"Mainly I want to get people reading that book, which is one of the glories of American fiction from the last 50 years."
--John Wilson, editor of Books and Culture.
On twitter, June 11, 2014
New edition of Catherwood by the end of the year! Review clips, "best of" citations, and information on editions here.
Comment used by permission. I am once again grateful to
--John Wilson, editor of Books and Culture.
On twitter, June 11, 2014
New edition of Catherwood by the end of the year! Review clips, "best of" citations, and information on editions here.
Comment used by permission. I am once again grateful to
June 10, 2014
Catalogue page for "Glimmerglass"--
Clive Hicks-Jenkins,prefatory drawing for Glimmerglass
I'm posting the catalogue page for Glimmerglass today--go here.
"I know of no writers other than Marly Youmans who has the genius to combine the spine-tingling suspense of Gothic storytelling with the immense charm, grace, glamour, realism, and simplicity of Hawthorne. Glimmerglass does more than shimmer and grip; it entertains and
I'm posting the catalogue page for Glimmerglass today--go here.
"I know of no writers other than Marly Youmans who has the genius to combine the spine-tingling suspense of Gothic storytelling with the immense charm, grace, glamour, realism, and simplicity of Hawthorne. Glimmerglass does more than shimmer and grip; it entertains and
June 9, 2014
Long ago and far away
One of the unused Clive Hicks-Jenkins
images for The Foliate Head--it seems
to fit this Whitmanian post...
"Walt Whitman" just followed me on twitter, and that made me remember that I had a professor once who made me read great swaths of Whitman aloud in class. We had an 8:00 start time, but he made us arrive at 7:00 a.m., a great trial for the young, who think they have long lives ahead, not
images for The Foliate Head--it seems
to fit this Whitmanian post...
"Walt Whitman" just followed me on twitter, and that made me remember that I had a professor once who made me read great swaths of Whitman aloud in class. We had an 8:00 start time, but he made us arrive at 7:00 a.m., a great trial for the young, who think they have long lives ahead, not
June 8, 2014
Glimmer and shine--
Recognize these, anyone? I am a fan of stained glass and the poetry of Henry Vaughan (and especially his marvelous "The World"), and so I'm excited to see that Clive Hicks-Jenkins has started working on a window commission and is using images some images he made for my poetry collection The Foliate Head and upcoming novel, Glimmerglass. And the way he is handling the text points back to the
June 7, 2014
Joyous path--
Courtesy of sxc.hu and Rodrigo Lozano of Brazil
Old English Wordhord
@OEWordhord
#OldEnglish #WOTD: gomenwāðu, f.n: a joyous path. (from twitter)
One of my favorite things about the internet is coming upon small, startling facts left like Hansel-pebbles in the woods. (My least favorite thing is, naturellement, the general addiction of everybody and the much-discussed decline in book-reading.
Old English Wordhord
@OEWordhord
#OldEnglish #WOTD: gomenwāðu, f.n: a joyous path. (from twitter)
One of my favorite things about the internet is coming upon small, startling facts left like Hansel-pebbles in the woods. (My least favorite thing is, naturellement, the general addiction of everybody and the much-discussed decline in book-reading.
June 5, 2014
Fracas! Ruckus! Brouhaha!
Vignette by Clive Hicks-Jenkins for Thaliad
Dear Slate,
What a lot of grief you are getting for publishing an article about how adults ought to be embarrassed to read children's books. ("Against YA" by Ruth Graham.) I guess maybe that was the point, as it is so often the point in these days. To get attention. To cause a commotion, a hullaballoo, a hoo-ha. To make a sort of paparazzi fuss, all
Dear Slate,
What a lot of grief you are getting for publishing an article about how adults ought to be embarrassed to read children's books. ("Against YA" by Ruth Graham.) I guess maybe that was the point, as it is so often the point in these days. To get attention. To cause a commotion, a hullaballoo, a hoo-ha. To make a sort of paparazzi fuss, all
Dorothy's rapier, etc.
Dorothy Sayers at The Lapidary Craft
The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity: so have some little frocks; but they are not the kind that any fool can run up in half an hour with a machine. . . . [English] is a rich, noble, flexible, and sensitive because it combines an enormous vocabulary of mixed origin with a superlatively civilized and almost wholly analytical syntax. This
The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity: so have some little frocks; but they are not the kind that any fool can run up in half an hour with a machine. . . . [English] is a rich, noble, flexible, and sensitive because it combines an enormous vocabulary of mixed origin with a superlatively civilized and almost wholly analytical syntax. This
June 4, 2014
Tweedly-jolly for Glimmerglass!
I'm busy writing a guest blog post and then must do some ornery tasks that are singing my name in gutturals and shrills... So just for fun, here's a bit of welcome for Glimmerglass from the editor of Books and Culture:
John Wilson @jwilson1812 21h
Having read it at a previous stage, I already know it will be one of my favorite books of the year @marlyyoumans
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John Wilson @jwilson1812 21h
Having read it at a previous stage, I already know it will be one of my favorite books of the year @marlyyoumans
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June 3, 2014
In sun and rain--
Illustration by Galen Dara
It's a melancholy day, as child no. 2 heads back to Vermont with her godparents, and the house is quiet. Outside the rain is falling, fine and gentle, sometimes in the sunshine. It all seems so appropriate to the date. As we grow older, more and more dates in our lives have a special, often secret meaning, sometimes connected with something beautiful, sometimes
It's a melancholy day, as child no. 2 heads back to Vermont with her godparents, and the house is quiet. Outside the rain is falling, fine and gentle, sometimes in the sunshine. It all seems so appropriate to the date. As we grow older, more and more dates in our lives have a special, often secret meaning, sometimes connected with something beautiful, sometimes
