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This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact.", "addresses": "obscured as 'user at host'" }, "archive": "urth", "thread": { "id": 3866, "subject": "Wildside book on John Crowley: publication imminent", "messages": 3, "voices": 3, "first": "2003-02-28T07:08:47+00:00", "last": "2003-03-08T02:57:26+00:00" }, "messages": [ { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Nicholas Gevers", "address": "vermoulian at yahoo.com" }, "date": "2003-02-28T07:08:47+00:00", "subject": "(urth) Wildside book on John Crowley: publication imminent", "in_reply_to": null, "reply_link": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Knowing the interest people on this list have in John\nCrowley, I'd like to make the following announcement\nof imminent publication of the first ever book-length\ncritical study of John Crowley, edited by our very own\nAlice \"alga\" Turner and Michael \"mantis\"\nAndre-Driussi. They have enormously expanded their\nearlier chapbook, also called SNAKE'S-HANDS: THE\nFICTION OF JOHN CROWLEY.\n\nFull details below. A few notes: the publisher is\nWildside Press, and this is a Print On Demand book.\nIt's available from amazon.com and\nwww.wildsidepress.com, as well as other online\nbooksellers. If the $49.95 pricetag sounds heinous,\nthere will be a trade paperback next year at around\n$20.\n\n--Nick Gevers.\n\n\nAlice K. Turner and Michael Andre-Driussi (eds.),\nSNAKE’S-HANDS: THE FICTION OF JOHN CROWLEY\n\nPreface by Harold Bloom\n\nPage Count: 408\n\n1-58715-509-5 (HB) \n$49.95\n \nApril 1st, 2003\n\n\nSNAKE’S-HANDS CONTENTS LIST:\n\nPreface, by Harold Bloom\n\nTHE DEEP\nDeep Thoughts: John Crowley’s Fifteenth Century Game\nof Kings, by Alice K. Turner\nOff the Deep End: a Defence of the Conclusion to John\nCrowley’s First Novel, by Michael Andre-Driussi\n\nBEASTS\nJohn Crowley’s Great Blond Beasts, by Michael\nAndre-Driussi \n\nENGINE SUMMER\nA Poetic Novel, by Thomas M. Disch\nOne Writer’s Beginnings: Engine Summer as a Portrait\nof the Artist, by Alice K. Turner \n“It Doesn’t Get Better”: Little Belaire, the List, and\nthe Riven World of Engine Summer, by Adam Stephanides\nThe Great Knot Unraveled, Or Not, by Michael\nAndre-Driussi \nMany Lives (Synopsis of a Proposed Novel), by John\nCrowley\n“Learning to Live with It”: The First Engine Summer,\nby Adam Stephanides\n\nLITTLE BIG\nBest and Biggest, by Thomas M. Disch\nAbout Little, Big, by John Crowley\nLittle, Big Girl: The Influence of the Alice Books and\nOther Works of Lewis Carroll on John Crowley’s Novel\nLittle, Big or, The Fairies’ Parliament, by William H.\nAnsley \nLittle, Big for Little Folk, by Alice K. Turner \n\nSHORTER WORKS AND OVERVIEWS\nThe Novelty of Aegypt, by Michael Andre-Driussi\nTimelines for Great Work of Time, by Michael\nAndre-Driussi\nTime’s Great Work and Strange Turnings, by Brian\nAttebery\nMemory and the World of John Crowley: Technology and\nthe Art of Memory, by Jennifer Stevenson\nAntiquities and Four More Tales, by Alice K. Turner\n\nTHE AEGYPT SERIES\nGenre Trouble, or John Crowley’s Unfinished Symphony,\nby James Hynes\nThe Aegypt Series, by John Clute\nAstrology and Thematic Structure in the Aegypt Novels\nof John Crowley, by Don Riggs\nPierce Moffett the Ass: Apuleian and Brunonian Themes\nin John Crowley’s Daemonomania, by Sondra Ford Swift\n“The Words of Mercury Are Harsh…”: Love’s Labour’s\nLost in Aegypt, by Matthew S. S. Davis \nBlackbury Jambs, and Other Misunderstandings, by\nGraham Sleight \nTime in Aegypt, by Alice K. Turner \nJohn Crowley on the Aegypt Series (an Interview by\nAlice K. Turner)\n\nTHE TRANSLATOR\nLife After Aegypt: Notes on John Crowley’s The\nTranslator, by Bill Sheehan \n\nThe Fiction of John Crowley: A Bibliography, by Graham\nSleight\nThe Non-Fiction of John Crowley: A Bibliography, by\nMatthew S. S. Davis" } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Alice K. Turner", "address": "aturner6 at nyc.rr.com" }, "date": "2003-02-28T17:07:55+00:00", "subject": "Re: (urth) Wildside book on John Crowley: publication imminent", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "subject", "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Re Nick's announcement re the Crowley book: I'd like to wax sentimental for\nthree seconds to say how grateful I am to this list and to Ranjit for\nkeeping it going. (And I know I'm speaking for Michael too.) The book would\nhave been pale and wan without contributions from this list. Thanks to\nWilliam, Matthew, Graham and **especially** Adam, who not only did some\nastonishing research (nearly worth the *gulp* price on its own) but put in\nyeoman copyediting time.\n\n-alga" } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Adam Stephanides", "address": "adamsteph at earthlink.net" }, "date": "2003-03-08T02:57:26+00:00", "subject": "Re: (urth) Wildside book on John Crowley: publication imminent", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "subject", "blocks": [ { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "on 2/28/03 11:07 AM, Alice K. Turner at aturner6 at nyc.rr.com wrote:\nThanks to\nWilliam, Matthew, Graham and **especially** Adam, who not only did some\nastonishing research (nearly worth the *gulp* price on its own) but put in\nyeoman copyediting time." }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Thank you for your kind words; I appreciate them a great deal. I wouldn't\nhave done anything without your and Michael's encouragement. And\ncongratulations on the book finally appearing!\n\n--Adam" } ] } ] }