What doesn't last gets swallowed whole
Still coughing. Still worried about traveling tomorrow. Slept eight hours without taking codeine syrup, however, so I must be getting better. Everything outside is crumpled brown and autumnal, one of those flat skimmed-milk overcasts that looks like someone developed the sky wrong. Still looking forward to New York.
Night Shade Books has announced the cover and table of contents of Paula Guran's Mythic Journeys: Myths and Legends Retold! I am delighted to be part of that lineup. Appearing alongside Tanith Lee's "The Gorgon" is strange and poignant; that was one of her first collections I found and read when I started seriously seeking her out in college, and one of the more important to me. I am glad I was in an anthology with her when she was alive.
Links.
1. Courtesy of![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
ladymondegreen: "Jacqueline Steiner, 94, Lyricist Who Left Charlie on the M.T.A., Dies." He got into my poem "Kalligeneia 2012," that's how much of a numen of the Boston underworld Charlie is. I don't want to say celebrate his creator by getting stuck on public transit, but I can't think of many other appropriate forms of remembrance, unless it's MBTA reform.
2. I like this poem a lot as an engagement with Justice: Jimmy Santiago Baca, "Waiting."
3. Thirty-one phonograph recordings, made in 1890 as a test run to "salvage" an expected-to-vanish culture, now returned to the descendants of the recorded for ceremonial, practical, and above all tribal purposes: "The Passamaquoddy Reclaim Their Culture Through Digital Repatriation."
4. As someone who was forced out of grad school by a combination of medical issues and an institution that didn't want to believe or support me through them, much of this article resonated to the point of being painful to read: "How to Make Grad School More Humane."
5. I find this print stunning: Belkis Ayón, "Sin Título (Sikán con Chivo)." I don't think I'd heard of the artist.
Night Shade Books has announced the cover and table of contents of Paula Guran's Mythic Journeys: Myths and Legends Retold! I am delighted to be part of that lineup. Appearing alongside Tanith Lee's "The Gorgon" is strange and poignant; that was one of her first collections I found and read when I started seriously seeking her out in college, and one of the more important to me. I am glad I was in an anthology with her when she was alive.
Links.
1. Courtesy of
ladymondegreen: "Jacqueline Steiner, 94, Lyricist Who Left Charlie on the M.T.A., Dies." He got into my poem "Kalligeneia 2012," that's how much of a numen of the Boston underworld Charlie is. I don't want to say celebrate his creator by getting stuck on public transit, but I can't think of many other appropriate forms of remembrance, unless it's MBTA reform.2. I like this poem a lot as an engagement with Justice: Jimmy Santiago Baca, "Waiting."
3. Thirty-one phonograph recordings, made in 1890 as a test run to "salvage" an expected-to-vanish culture, now returned to the descendants of the recorded for ceremonial, practical, and above all tribal purposes: "The Passamaquoddy Reclaim Their Culture Through Digital Repatriation."
4. As someone who was forced out of grad school by a combination of medical issues and an institution that didn't want to believe or support me through them, much of this article resonated to the point of being painful to read: "How to Make Grad School More Humane."
5. I find this print stunning: Belkis Ayón, "Sin Título (Sikán con Chivo)." I don't think I'd heard of the artist.
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That is an amazing table of contents.
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Thank you!
That is an amazing table of contents.
I'm really happy about it. And looking forward to reading.
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You are in *excellent* company in Mythic Journeys--as are your fellow writers, sharing the TOC with you. Congratulations! ... I proofread one of Tanith Lee's stories--it was in one of the Clockwork Phoenix anthologies.
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Thank you for finding the whole website! I love the pictures of her working. Yes.
(The New York Times gave her an Overlooked obituary last year.)
You are in *excellent* company in Mythic Journeys--as are your fellow writers, sharing the TOC with you. Congratulations!
Thank you! It happened via Facebook, honestly—Paula Guran said she was looking for non-Greek myths, someone tagged me in comments, I sent an assortment of mythologies, and "A Wolf in Iceland Is the Child of a Lie" was the one she chose. It makes me happy. It is the only time I have ever successfully written about Loki, who was so important to me for so long, and still is.
... I proofread one of Tanith Lee's stories--it was in one of the Clockwork Phoenix anthologies.
I think that's great. I loved that Mike and Anita published her. (I would have thought they had a hole in their heads if they didn't want to.)
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Thank you all round!
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(I will have mroe to say once I am not horrendously busy at work.)
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Thank you!
(I will have mroe to say once I am not horrendously busy at work.)
(Legit.)
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I missed this comment at the time! Thank you! The trip turned out great.
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You're welcome. I am sorry it was that relevant to you.