five floors of books - imagine

Kim has been exploring the Queen's bookshop, as you do. This is a great post, and I am glad she got in before the snow show.

“First publication is a pure, carnal leap in the dark which one dreams is life.” If this was all she had said, I think she would still be noticed. Hortense Calisher died a few weeks ago, aged 97, in the US.
There is an obituary here.

Something else to read - as well as Stephany's blog all the time, which is magnificently good.
(This I salvaged from last year's news, it was too good to throw away.)

I agree with the eds at the Literary Saloon that the US cover of the Penguin reissue of The Vivisector is indeed a shocker.

And I think there would be whole epics in Naked Man. But let New Yorkers have their fun.

Comments

[Lee]

Oh. My. God. That Vivisector cover is a shocker. It's just awful. Did the designers even read the book?

[Ann oDyne]

Thanks for bringing that to my notice -
I wonder if Hatchard's FILLED their window with the
Peerless Alan Bennett's 'The Uncommon Reader"