novelties & souvenirs is really good, shows off his breadth of subject matter and diversity of approaches. "the great work of time" is the undisputed classic but i also really liked "why the nightingale sings at night", a creation myth more thoughtful than genesis, and "the war between the subjects and the objects", a short and sweet philosophical joke.
― neith moon (ledge), Friday, 6 November 2020 20:00 (three years ago) link
Does that collec tion have The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines, because I fucking love that novella.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Tuesday, 9 March 2021 07:30 (three years ago) link
Sadly it does not. One for my 'to read' list.
― Non meat-eaters rejoice – our culture has completely lost its way (ledge), Tuesday, 9 March 2021 08:42 (three years ago) link
The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines is all-time, I need to reread it. It's available in a collection he put out a couple of years ago:
https://smallbeerpress.com/books/2019/11/05/and-go-like-this/
― doctor johnson (askance johnson), Tuesday, 9 March 2021 15:56 (three years ago) link
Haven't listened but it's newhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5f49ZeDU7F4
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 20 April 2022 20:02 (one year ago) link
I remember first encountering him in adolescence. I read Beasts, Engine Summer and The Deep, all of which made a huge impression on me. Little, Big came out when I was in high school and was, I thought, a major leap forward (although the older books still hold up on re-reading). I've kind of lost touch with him since Aegypt, although I did re-read Little, Big after reading Neil Gaiman's The Ocean at the End of the Lane (which struck me as a pale shadow of Crowley's book). Sounds like I have a lot of catching up to do.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 20 April 2022 20:56 (one year ago) link
Got this, for re-reading the then-newly collected contents, soon after it came out, in early 00s---still need to re-read!https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71DMvbbR6KL.jpg
― dow, Wednesday, 20 April 2022 23:49 (one year ago) link
Then in 2019, another collection, which I don't have:
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71I8rcC8hQL.jpg
― dow, Wednesday, 20 April 2022 23:52 (one year ago) link
https://aaronparksmusic.bandcamp.com/album/little-big
Little Big also marks the recorded debut of the intuitive working group that gives the album its title (and which takes its name from a fantastical novel by John Crowley—a favorite book of Parks and, the pianist notes, Wayne Shorter).
― Wile E. Kinbote (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 21 April 2022 11:05 (one year ago) link
Crowley is on Gil Roth’s podcast this week and a link led me to this (I didn’t know):https://harpers.org/archive/2022/01/the-old-imperium-learning-to-live-with-my-aging-mind/
― covidsbundlertanze op. 6 (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 21 April 2022 13:51 (one year ago) link
Very goodl thanks! Will try the meditation, now that he's described his experience with it (incl. habitual mental chatter, clatter, chowder, explainer)
― dow, Thursday, 21 April 2022 17:49 (one year ago) link
You might not be able to tell from my posts, but it has definitely helped me.
― Wile E. Kinbote (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 21 April 2022 18:38 (one year ago) link
Douglas A. Anderson, editor of the very fine Tales Before Tolkien, reporting:
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2023Today the Book I Ordered Seventeen Years Ago Actually ArrivedI kid you not. The book was to be published in 2006, as the 25th Anniversary Edition of its original publication in 1981. Now it has appeared in 2023, the year of the book's 42nd Anniversary. I won't go into the long (looong...) history of the delays, but will merely thank those involved for their perseverance to finally see this book published. The book is Little, Big, by John Crowley. This version contains the author's preferred text, illustrations by Peter Milton, and an essay by the late Harold Bloom, one of a number of people who have died in the interim since the book was announced. The book itself is oversized (about 8 inches by 10 1/4). It weighs over five pounds. It is not an easy book to handle, or to read from. But it is out. And I will not repeat the idiotic phrase (which I have always hated, and thought inaccurate) that it was worth the wait, because it isn't.
The book is Little, Big, by John Crowley. This version contains the author's preferred text, illustrations by Peter Milton, and an essay by the late Harold Bloom, one of a number of people who have died in the interim since the book was announced.
The book itself is oversized (about 8 inches by 10 1/4). It weighs over five pounds. It is not an easy book to handle, or to read from. But it is out. And I will not repeat the idiotic phrase (which I have always hated, and thought inaccurate) that it was worth the wait, because it isn't.
the author's preferred text
― dow, Saturday, 25 February 2023 21:13 (one year ago) link
Maybe I’ll reread it some day but aegypt kicks its ass IMO
― realistic pillow (Jon not Jon), Saturday, 25 February 2023 21:31 (one year ago) link
I was reading the extremely intermittent updates for that edition a couple of years ago, it honestly read like a scam. I'm planning on rereading it sometime soon (not that edition), aegypt... maybe later.
― ledge, Saturday, 25 February 2023 21:45 (one year ago) link