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Like oak leaves in autumn, cascading on stiles
Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, R.I.P. I grew up on this series. Each year I bought the new collection, scoured used book stores for past years; I discovered writers through them—they were the reprint market to which all short stories and poems aspired. They were a field guide as well as a gathering of flowers. And I am not, not pleased to see them go.
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Not ONLY are we not pregnant this month, I can't hoard up my Barnes and Noble GC from the holidays in order to run out and buy YBF&H.
I think I'm going to go engage in full-on nervous collapse now.
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Yeah. Intellectually, it's a terrible loss for the field; and forget the landscape of fiction, I wanted to read this year's collection! I do not like writing obituaries for books.
I think I'm going to go engage in full-on nervous collapse now.
*hugs*
Please do not. I like you uncollapsed.
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The collapse is from housing crisis/leftover miscarriage emotional trappings/my actually quite enjoyable job/hating people for no logical reason and feeling like a hypocrite/a sinus infection. All at once. I am sure you can relate.
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Yes.
You are loved.
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Do you know any rabid goats I could borrow?
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I don't even know any healthy goats. There used to be llamas at Wilson Farms. Is that an acceptable substitute?
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"This is just . . . wrong.
"YBF&H is what writers aspired to; where readers found the indispensable and undiscovered; where scholars read 'the abstract and brief chronicles of the time.' It has been truly an anthology, a garland of green.
"Many many thanks to all who worked on it, who made that long shelf of brilliant, provocative, astonishing stories and poems."
But field guide is perfect.
So bittersweet to see you in this last edition; so sad to think we'll never open next year's or the next to read a poem or a story by a rising friend, an immortal, a newfound voice...
Nine
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I know. Who would I have discovered next?
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Jeff VanderMeer has some ideas.
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They were good anthologies--I hope maybe in a couple of years they can get them back running again.
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I don't know where they would go. But I can hope. I don't like the idea of a world without such an institution.
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And where am I going to look for year's best poetry now?
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My suspicion is that it's not gone for long, that some enterprising small press will pick it up (a series with that rep and an established readership? Oh, surely...). But I have been wrong before.
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It's like national mourning.
that some enterprising small press will pick it up (a series with that rep and an established readership? Oh, surely...).
Seriously. I wish you a well-founded suspicion!
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A big part of me wonders whether a letter campaign of "please, don't" to St Martin's would have any effect on their decision.
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The worst that would happen is it fails . . . ?
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I know. I would entirely have approved of seeing you reprinted.
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