# Wildside book on John Crowley: publication imminent *The Urth list — 3 messages, 3 voices, 28 Feb 2003* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Nicholas Gevers *28 Feb 2003, 07:08* Knowing the interest people on this list have in John Crowley, I'd like to make the following announcement of imminent publication of the first ever book-length critical study of John Crowley, edited by our very own Alice "alga" Turner and Michael "mantis" Andre-Driussi. They have enormously expanded their earlier chapbook, also called SNAKE'S-HANDS: THE FICTION OF JOHN CROWLEY. Full details below. A few notes: the publisher is Wildside Press, and this is a Print On Demand book. It's available from amazon.com and www.wildsidepress.com, as well as other online booksellers. If the $49.95 pricetag sounds heinous, there will be a trade paperback next year at around $20. --Nick Gevers. Alice K. Turner and Michael Andre-Driussi (eds.), SNAKE’S-HANDS: THE FICTION OF JOHN CROWLEY Preface by Harold Bloom Page Count: 408 1-58715-509-5 (HB) $49.95 April 1st, 2003 SNAKE’S-HANDS CONTENTS LIST: Preface, by Harold Bloom THE DEEP Deep Thoughts: John Crowley’s Fifteenth Century Game of Kings, by Alice K. Turner Off the Deep End: a Defence of the Conclusion to John Crowley’s First Novel, by Michael Andre-Driussi BEASTS John Crowley’s Great Blond Beasts, by Michael Andre-Driussi ENGINE SUMMER A Poetic Novel, by Thomas M. Disch One Writer’s Beginnings: Engine Summer as a Portrait of the Artist, by Alice K. Turner “It Doesn’t Get Better”: Little Belaire, the List, and the Riven World of Engine Summer, by Adam Stephanides The Great Knot Unraveled, Or Not, by Michael Andre-Driussi Many Lives (Synopsis of a Proposed Novel), by John Crowley “Learning to Live with It”: The First Engine Summer, by Adam Stephanides LITTLE BIG Best and Biggest, by Thomas M. Disch About Little, Big, by John Crowley Little, Big Girl: The Influence of the Alice Books and Other Works of Lewis Carroll on John Crowley’s Novel Little, Big or, The Fairies’ Parliament, by William H. Ansley Little, Big for Little Folk, by Alice K. Turner SHORTER WORKS AND OVERVIEWS The Novelty of Aegypt, by Michael Andre-Driussi Timelines for Great Work of Time, by Michael Andre-Driussi Time’s Great Work and Strange Turnings, by Brian Attebery Memory and the World of John Crowley: Technology and the Art of Memory, by Jennifer Stevenson Antiquities and Four More Tales, by Alice K. Turner THE AEGYPT SERIES Genre Trouble, or John Crowley’s Unfinished Symphony, by James Hynes The Aegypt Series, by John Clute Astrology and Thematic Structure in the Aegypt Novels of John Crowley, by Don Riggs Pierce Moffett the Ass: Apuleian and Brunonian Themes in John Crowley’s Daemonomania, by Sondra Ford Swift “The Words of Mercury Are Harsh…”: Love’s Labour’s Lost in Aegypt, by Matthew S. S. Davis Blackbury Jambs, and Other Misunderstandings, by Graham Sleight Time in Aegypt, by Alice K. Turner John Crowley on the Aegypt Series (an Interview by Alice K. Turner) THE TRANSLATOR Life After Aegypt: Notes on John Crowley’s The Translator, by Bill Sheehan The Fiction of John Crowley: A Bibliography, by Graham Sleight The Non-Fiction of John Crowley: A Bibliography, by Matthew S. S. Davis --- ### Alice K. Turner *28 Feb 2003, 17:07 · follows Nicholas Gevers* Re Nick's announcement re the Crowley book: I'd like to wax sentimental for three seconds to say how grateful I am to this list and to Ranjit for keeping it going. (And I know I'm speaking for Michael too.) The book would have been pale and wan without contributions from this list. Thanks to William, Matthew, Graham and **especially** Adam, who not only did some astonishing research (nearly worth the *gulp* price on its own) but put in yeoman copyediting time. -alga --- ### Adam Stephanides *08 Mar 2003, 02:57 · follows Alice K. Turner* > on 2/28/03 11:07 AM, Alice K. Turner at aturner6 at nyc.rr.com wrote: > Thanks to > William, Matthew, Graham and **especially** Adam, who not only did some > astonishing research (nearly worth the *gulp* price on its own) but put in > yeoman copyediting time. Thank you for your kind words; I appreciate them a great deal. I wouldn't have done anything without your and Michael's encouragement. And congratulations on the book finally appearing! --Adam ---