Thanks to Allen B. for sending me a link to the New Yorker’s online slide show of Fairy Tale-themed artworks:
http://www.newyorker.com/online/2007/11/05/slideshow_071105_chast
Cool, right?
The Snow Queen broadsides should be available right before Christmas, on the 21st or right after…
I’m almost finished with my review of Margaret Atwood’s The Door. It was a hard one to write because although I’m an ardent fan of almost all of Atwood’s writing, this book just didn’t hit me as hard as most of her others. I did enjoy the attached CD, however. Atwood’s reading voice and style are exactly how you would imagine them.
Then I’ve got to work on a piece about Modern Life and Japanese pop culture. Reading Japanamerica over again and will maybe watch some Ghost in the Shell or FullMetal Alchemist for good measure. When my prose work is done, then I can think about writing (and submitting) poetry again! Got to get those two book manuscripts out into the world.
This week is a whirl of parties and (other people’s) readings, social social social. Got to drag those party clothes out from the back of the closet.
Jeannine Hall Gailey served as the second Poet Laureate of Redmond, Washington and the author of Becoming the Villainess, She Returns to the Floating World, Unexplained Fevers, The Robot Scientist’s Daughter, and winner of the Moon City Press Book Prize and SFPA’s Elgin Award, Field Guide to the End of the World. Her latest, Flare, Corona from BOA Editions, was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award. She’s also the author of PR for Poets, a Guidebook to Publicity and Marketing. Her work has been featured on NPR’s The Writer’s Almanac, Verse Daily and The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror. Her poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Poetry, and JAMA.
