The thing, that for me, I find most interesting about that article is that I can relate to both writing/artistic styles described. Both the honing of craft and open-ended exploration and research that Galenson attributes to the late bloomer both appeal and make sense to me as much as the "conceptual" tag he applies to the prodigies of starting with a clear idea and executing it.
Not that I'm anything approaching a genius, mind you. I can just relate to both approaches and see how I've used both in writing.
I'm not sure whether this is a good thing or if it simply means I'm screwed.
Barb, if you still have them, I'd love the following for my juvie hall girls:
- Sister Chicas- Lisa Alvarado, Ann Hagman Cardinal, Jane Alberdeston Coralin (Latina YA)
- Boys That Bite- Mari Mancusi (Para YA)
GC, they're all yours. Did you want mine as well since they're YA?
Jilli, have you read Tanith Lee's The Secret Books of Paradys?
I glanced at it in the bookstore and the first story was like an elegant marriage of NIN's video for "Perfect Drug" and the Paris section of
Interview With A Vampire.
Jilli, have you read Tanith Lee's The Secret Books of Paradys
Yep! They're gorgeous. Her Blood Opera series is still my favorite, but the Paradys books are lovely and overwrought in the best sort of way.
Then you'll like this tidbit from her website:
August 2008
The Blood Opera pours on
A 4th novel? OK, not quite yet, but a definite probable in the not so far off future - more when I have it.
The Blood Opera pours on
A 4th novel? OK, not quite yet, but a definite probable in the not so far off future - more when I have it.
Yesssssss. I have been WAITING for the 4th book for ages.
Just finished reading
The Graveyard Book.
I would say something incisive and telling and reviewish, but mostly I'm in that word-drenched afterglow, where I just want to pet the covers and run lazy fingers up and down the spine. Lovely book.
Rendezvous with Rama
is awesome because it's pretty good hard sci-fi that inspired an amazingly terrible set of Future Romance sequels. Which I, of course, devoured in high school. But man was that whole series bad in retrospect.
I'da gotten the Leobowitz one.
As to the poetry list - i'm not much of a poetry connoisseur, but I love me some "Prufrock," so the list is A-Okay in my book. A book that is probably really poorly written.
