Marly Youmans's Blog, page 95
March 12, 2013
BOTYA finalists--
"is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2012 Book of the Year Awards. The finalists were selected from 1300 entries covering 62 categories of books from independent and academic presses. These books represent some of the best books produced by small publishing houses in 2012."
A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage
is one of 17 finalists
in the category of General Fiction.
A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage
is one of 17 finalists
in the category of General Fiction.
March 11, 2013
Golden joinery
Please tell me if you know the original source for this photo.
Kintsukuroi (金繕い?) is a Japanese technique of repairing broken ceramics with metal lacquer, usually gold or silver. Kintsugi (金継ぎ?) (Japanese: golden joinery) is the Japanese art of fixing broken pottery with a lacquer resin sprinkled with powdered gold (Wikipedia.)
Kintsugi, or restoring with gold, is a grand symbol.
You take
Kintsukuroi (金繕い?) is a Japanese technique of repairing broken ceramics with metal lacquer, usually gold or silver. Kintsugi (金継ぎ?) (Japanese: golden joinery) is the Japanese art of fixing broken pottery with a lacquer resin sprinkled with powdered gold (Wikipedia.)
Kintsugi, or restoring with gold, is a grand symbol.
You take
March 9, 2013
THALIAD art news
Clive's studio.
News for early Thaliad buyers: Clive Hicks-Jenkins has finished the bookplates for first purchasers, and they are now drying in his studio! So you may expect arrival within the next few weeks. They will have to be packaged, of course, and travel here and there... I will be mailing all the U. S. orders. Not sure how I will do that exactly--must get some little envelopes and
News for early Thaliad buyers: Clive Hicks-Jenkins has finished the bookplates for first purchasers, and they are now drying in his studio! So you may expect arrival within the next few weeks. They will have to be packaged, of course, and travel here and there... I will be mailing all the U. S. orders. Not sure how I will do that exactly--must get some little envelopes and
March 8, 2013
Morning snow, with books--
Time for some Sendakian morning cake! And in the wake-up news, I'm glad to see the lead-off book review in Arsenio Orteza's "Notable Books: four notable works of fiction" from worldmag.com: A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage. I'm especially glad to see this at the moment because in my scurryings-about to help the adventurous Thaliad, I am always in danger of forgetting my other two 2012
March 7, 2013
"Like a tower"
"Journey's End" with Tretower castle by Clive Hicks-Jenkins.
You can find something I wrote about this piece here.
Poem as tower
Unterecker, A Reader's Guide to William Butler Yeats (p. 107):
By staring at any poem long enough, however, by searching for all possible correlations, we can begin to apprehend details of the internal organization of poetic art. Only if we learn to read Yeats in
You can find something I wrote about this piece here.
Poem as tower
Unterecker, A Reader's Guide to William Butler Yeats (p. 107):
By staring at any poem long enough, however, by searching for all possible correlations, we can begin to apprehend details of the internal organization of poetic art. Only if we learn to read Yeats in
March 6, 2013
The sundry news--
Reprints are cheerful!
Thanks to Adam Mills, managing editor of Weird Fiction Review (brain child of that energetic duo, the Vandermeers), for asking for a reprint of "An Incident at Agate Beach." The story first appeared in James A. Owen's gorgeous, short-lived Argosy Quarterly, and went on to a second life in the Northwest Passages anthology and a third in Year's Best in Fantasy and Horror,
Thanks to Adam Mills, managing editor of Weird Fiction Review (brain child of that energetic duo, the Vandermeers), for asking for a reprint of "An Incident at Agate Beach." The story first appeared in James A. Owen's gorgeous, short-lived Argosy Quarterly, and went on to a second life in the Northwest Passages anthology and a third in Year's Best in Fantasy and Horror,
March 5, 2013
Taking a Horribly Sick Vesuvian Day. Have news, but it ca...
Taking a Horribly Sick Vesuvian Day. Have news, but it can wait. Frolic on my behalf.
March 3, 2013
Abundance, creation, art--
Detail of "Spectral Reflections" by Robert Stephan,
from "North Carolina Glass: In Celebration of 50 Years of Studio Glass in America"
The Fine Art Museum, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina
I've been reading portions of saints Athanasius, Augustine, and Maximus the Confessor--have found much of it interesting, very different from our own day. The early church was a bit
from "North Carolina Glass: In Celebration of 50 Years of Studio Glass in America"
The Fine Art Museum, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina
I've been reading portions of saints Athanasius, Augustine, and Maximus the Confessor--have found much of it interesting, very different from our own day. The early church was a bit
Wiki-Tikki-Clive
Clive Hicks-Jenkins, maker of the gorgeous interior and exterior art for Thaliad and The Foliate Head, has a lovely new entry at Wikipedia. I have a guess at the writer (definitely not implying Clive!), and must say that he did an excellent job. A lot of Wikipedia articles about writers are "bitty" or else strike one as written over too much time by a committee. When I last looked at mine, my
March 2, 2013
New-fallen stars
Up at five
to make breakfast and see somebody off to a meeting... The chickens have scattered to Bard and New York, Binghamton, and a sleepover. Strange to have only two people in the house. At five the world was wonderfully blue and virginal, with snow and hush and stillness all around. Lovely heavy dusting of stars over roofs and walks and perfecting the whiteness of the snow on earth and
to make breakfast and see somebody off to a meeting... The chickens have scattered to Bard and New York, Binghamton, and a sleepover. Strange to have only two people in the house. At five the world was wonderfully blue and virginal, with snow and hush and stillness all around. Lovely heavy dusting of stars over roofs and walks and perfecting the whiteness of the snow on earth and
