Katerina, you asked upthread where to get a copy of Carrion Comfort in the superior novella form. It was originally published in September and October of '83 in Omni Magazine, and reprinted in the following places:
Prayers to Broken Stones (1990) , Dan Simmons , Dark Harvest , hc , 0-913-16558-1 , $21.95 , 322pp
Prayers to Broken Stones (1992) , Dan Simmons , Bantam Spectra , pb , 0-553-29665-5 , $5.99 , 403pp
The Year's Best Science Fiction: First Annual Collection (1984) , Gardner Dozois , Bluejay Books , hc , 0-312-94482-9 , $17.95 , 575pp
Blood Is Not Enough (1990) , Ellen Datlow , Grafton , pb , 0-586-20852-6 , L4.50 , 414pp
A Taste for Blood (1992) , Martin H. Greenberg , Dorset , hc , 0-88029-770-0 , 589+xvipp
Wow, thanks, John! Not only the information I wanted, but a list to choose from; and I choose the Ellen Datlow anthology. Thank You! I will hie me off to Amazon.
Attention Maggie O'Farrell fans ...
She has a new book out, but apparently in the UK only. It's called The Distance Between Us, and I've heard that it's more like her first book than her second, which is apparently a good thing.
I loved After You'd Gone, but heard too many disappointing opinions about her second book to give it a shot.
Attention Narnia fans!
Were you aware that, and I quote, "Clive Staples Lewis has been perhaps the single most useful tool of Satan since his appearance in the Christian community sometime around World War II"?
More details here! You'll never look at Turkish Delight the same way again...
Good stuff.
The word "ass" appears in 4 of the books. Being British, it probably did not mean the same to him as it does to Americans (as a swear word), but he could have left it out, especially since he only used it four times and did use "donkey" in other places.
Hee.
When Lewis has Bree say, "All Narnians swear by him" an interesting point comes to light. All Christians do not swear by Christ or God. In fact, Christians that are trying to ...live godly in Christ Jesus... (2Timothy 3:12 ) know that this is totally unacceptable for a Christian! Titus 2:12 Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; On the other hand, all sun worshippers do swear by the sun! Mr. Lewis has condemned himself by his own words!
Well, I guess there's no arguing with that.
I read
Vinegar Hill
by A. Manette Ansay, yesterday. I liked it, but it has bitter to spare. I like that the narrative shifts a lot and that the story jumps around through various generations. That doesn't always work in books, but I think it does here.
I find myself comparing it to
House of Sand and Fog,
another bitter Oprah book. But unlike HoSaF, VH did not leave me hopeless for humanity and wanting to stay in bed for days.
We will be discussing VH tonight at bookclub, and I am supposed to lead discussion, so I am off to see if there is anything online about it.
As a short interlude I started the 2nd Lemony Snikett book last night.
I have
Vinegar Hill
on my Amazon Marketplace "to buy" list. Ansay teaches at a writing workshop I really want to go to one of these summers, and she started off as a student there, so I really want to read it.
Is anyone else here a Lorrie Moore fan? I must know.
Lilty, I will send you mine after tonight. e me your address.
Can someone give a short definition of southern gothic?
how about midwestern gothic?
