Eleanor Glewwe's Blog, page 20

Seasonal Velocities and After the Election

A few months ago, my friend Isabelle went to a Literary Death Match where she heard LA writer Ryka Aoki read her essay/story “Olga from the Sky.” Isabelle described it to me as a story of a “weird encounter in LA”; we have something of a habit of exchanging our own weird encounters on the streets of this city. She was so taken with Ryka Aoki’s story that she went up to her after the readings to thank her for sharing it and she bought Seasonal Velocities, the collection of poems, stories, and...

Hear Me on MPR Tomorrow!

I’m going to be interviewed about Wildings on Minnesota Public Radio tomorrow, Wednesday, Dec. 7th, at 10:00am Minnesota time (8:00am Pacific, 11:00am on the East Coast, etc.)! You should be able to listen online here, if you aren’t local to the Twin Cities. And if you miss it, you should also be able to listen to the segment online after the fact. I’ll probably post the link.

Friendsgiving

Quick announcement: YA Book Central is running a giveaway of 3 signed copies of Wildings, so if you want to enter, you can do so over there!

Until this year, I’d always celebrated Thanksgiving with my family. I was lucky enough to be able to go home for the holiday throughout college and for each of my first three years of grad school. This year, since I was just in Minnesota for the release of Wildings, I decided not to fly home for Thanksgiving. Instead, I hosted Friendsgiving for eight. As...

Round About Our Coal Fire

First, a couple of news items:

I did a speed interview at The Children’s Book Review, in which you can find out, among other things, what’s on my nightstand (or what was on my nightstand at the time). I was featured in Publisher’s Weekly children’s news in brief last week! Calling Isabelle’s stamp famous proved to be prophetic because now it really is famous! As is Andrew‘s photo!

Now on to the main event, yet another song connections post! Last Friday I went to the UCLA Early Music Ensembl...

Wildings Launch Party at Children’s Book World

Last Saturday was the California launch for Wildings at Children’s Book World in Los Angeles! I was lucky enough to be joined by professors and fellow students from my department, friends from my church, my friend Andrew (who came down from Berkeley and served as official photographer again), and even some people I didn’t know (miracle of miracles!). I got to break out Isabelle’s famous stamp for the linguists.

Wildings Launch Party at Red Balloon

Preface: Look, I can’t post this blithe write-up of my launch party pretending like yesterday didn’t happen. And it would also be pointless to hide my politics. The outcome of the presidential election has left me stunned, deeply disappointed, and more than a little afraid of what the future holds. I am a woman of color, but I enjoy all kinds of privilege, and I’m more afraid for others than I am for myself. At the same time, I have faith that no matter who is president we can keep working to...

WILDINGS in the Wild!

Happy November! It’s Wildings’ publication day! This book was two years and seven months in the making (which is amazingly short, compared toSparkers), and now it’s finally out in the world!

I now give you…

5 Reasons to Read Wildings

Caleb Levi: Did you like Marah’s younger brother in Sparkers? If so, you’re in luck because he’s back in a much more prominent role! Marah and Azariah: What happened to them? Did Marah become a concert violinist? Or a linguist? Or something else…? You’ll find o...

Studying Manchu

Over the summer, an e-mail went around to the linguistics grad students and undergrads advertising a course entitled Qing History Through Manchu Sources. It was essentially a Manchu language course, being taught by a visiting scholar in the history department. The phrases “re-creating the pedagogical experience of a Qing Manchu class” and “the final examination will be modeled on the Qing translation examinations” were very enticing. I tried to persuade some of my colleagues to give in to tem...

Wildings Galore!

Wildings‘ latest trade review is from VOYA! You can read it here. The book will be out in the world in less than two weeks! And yesterday, a whole bunch of books arrived in the mail. I could build a book castle!

Also, here’s an article about a new independent children’s bookstore opening in the Twin Cities! It of course mentions the lovely Red Balloon Bookshop and Wild Rumpus, two of my favorite places. I’ll be at Red Balloon in just over two weeks forWildings‘ Minnesota launch.

Poetics of Location

Two Sundays ago, my friend Isabelle and I went on a walking tour of Downtown LA with Mike Sonksen, a.k.a. Mike the Poet, who recently published a chapbook called Poetics of Location. The tour began at the Central Library of Los Angeles, a place both of us had been curious to see but had yet to visit. We arrived a bit early and went inside to see the mosaics and (very colonialist) murals in the soaring rotunda. Then we joined a handful of other tour participants outside the library’s north ent...