Tell Me About John Crowley

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/

Haven't listened but it's new
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5f49ZeDU7F4

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.

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

Then in 2019, another collection, which I don't have:

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71I8rcC8hQL.jpg

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).

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/

Very goodl thanks! Will try the meditation, now that he's described his experience with it (incl. habitual mental chatter, clatter, chowder, explainer)

You might not be able to tell from my posts, but it has definitely helped me.

Douglas A. Anderson, editor of the very fine Tales Before Tolkien, reporting:

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2023
Today the Book I Ordered Seventeen Years Ago Actually Arrived
I 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 author's preferred text

Maybe I’ll reread it some day but aegypt kicks its ass IMO

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.