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What an amazingly absurd premise. Pretty excited for this!
(One new Fantagraphics release from Alex's drawer per year? Yes please).
The cover depicts Adriaen Brouwer's "The Bitter Potion" from 1605, by the way. Flemish genre painting is often preoccupied with feasts and drinking, for what it's worth.
Love the premise of this book.
Release date is now May 30, 2017. Extra time for copyediting and factchecking? Or is Alex adding another 100 pages?
Nathan "N.R." wrote: "copyediting and factchecking?"*involuntary snort*
We can only pray.
I'm even a little easier on the copyedit thing now that I find the typos in things like The Study Quran and Bottom's Dream. If those budgets can't get it right, no one can.
L.M.S. wrote: "300, actually; it's 1000 pages now - he told me so.."godsdamn but isn't that something!
First review is in ::Alexander Theroux's 'Einstein's Beets' Is an Acquired Taste
by John L. Murphy
http://www.popmatters.com/review/eins...
"As my testimony affirms, there may be a marginal but experienced readership for this frenetic inquiry."
I think there's another remark or two in there that can be traced to our gr=horde.
Sounds like a treat, even with all the inevitable editing flubs.
A very nice review of Einstein's Beets in the LARB by Geoff Nicholson ::The Anatomy of Finickiness: On Alexander Theroux’s “Einstein’s Beets: An Examination of Food Phobias”
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/t...#!
"So to return to that opening question, does the world need an 800-page book on food phobias, as well as dislikes, simple preferences, aversions, obsessions, squeamishness, food fetishes, fixations, fashions, snobbery, and inverted snobbery? Simple answer: Damn right it does — and with Theroux at the helm, you can’t help wondering why it wasn’t a thousand, two thousand pages long. Some of us will be eagerly awaiting an expanded edition."
Hiya everyone. I'm on page 216 of this feast, and I must say it is a treat so far. Only problem I can identify so far is some fairly obvious typos/misprints. Aside from that, it is a marvelous book full of luxurious descriptions and Theroux's top notch insults.
Aiden wrote: "some fairly obvious typos/misprints"Fantagraphics is well known for that [at least Theroux's Fantagraphics books].
Any clue who might be selling new? Seems to be out of stock wherever I look and buying used online always makes shipping bigger books more books expensive than they need to be. I regret not buying earlier.
Bewildered. Bit the bullet and bought Beets!
"This is a prose nonfiction book about food and food aversions throughout history. [sic, per amazon]
"Britney Spears loathes meatloaf and “all lumpy stuff.” Arturo Toscanini hated fish. Ayn Rand despised salads. Alexander Theroux’s Einstein’s Beets is a study of the world of food and food aversions. The novelist and poet probes the secret and mysterious attitudes of hundreds of people―mostly famous and well-known―toward eating and dining out, hilariously recounting tales of confrontation and scandalous alienation: it contains gossip, confession, embarrassment, and perceptive observations. Prose. [bold by yours truly]"
December 20, 2016. Order yours today!