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Lin
Those
bi-linguals get all the great translating jobs... Here are excerpts
of famous English-language poems in Chinese. Hsiu-chen says "please
don't fault me for including mostly poems by dead white men: they are much
better known in Taiwan and they are FREE!" Includes poems by Shakespeare,
Browning, Yeats, Shelley, Keats, Byron, Tennyson and Dickinson.
Classon,
Hsiu-chen Lin, translator
Love, I Remember: Classic English Love
Poems. Taiwan: China Times Publishing Co., 2004. Masterpiece
Series, #84. Published in Chinese with the original English on facing
pages. Paperback.
Erica
A
friend from high school tells me one of her poems is included in the upcoming
publication of Best American Poetry!
Go Erica! You can also read some of her journalism work in Ms.
Magazine.
Doyle, R. Erica
Lehman, David, ed. Best American Poetry 2001. Scribner's 2001. Hardcover, $30. Paperback, $16
Peter, a.k.a. Zeus
What's
Eating Gilbert Grape is a fantastic novel made into a fantastic
film, and it's rare that I recommend both the book and the film!
I remember watching the film of "What's Eating Gilbert Grape" and a friend
asking me if Peter was as kind and heartfelt as his character Gilbert.
I had to say yes. He is also an actor and director and foremost a
playwright. He has a built-in fan club...
Hedges, Peter.
An Ocean in Iowa. Hyperion, 1998. Hardcover, $23. Paperback $11
What's Eating Gilbert Grape. Pocket Books, 1991, 1998. Paperback, $14
Imagining Brad and The Valerie of Now. Dramtists Play Service, 1998
Bookdealing
Buddy
Unfortunately,
Sheldon passed away in 2003. He was a bookdealer associate of mine,
and the father of a friend. His speciality lay in the field of Arkham
House science fiction and fantasy, and in the pulps of the '20s and '30s.
I put him here under "Fiction" because his books are guides to works of
fiction, and anthologies of fiction, although Sheldon's work is research,
not fiction.
From the fanclub files: "If it weren't for Sheldon, some of these stories that shouldn't have been written might vanish forever. I commend his questionable taste!"
Here's my favorite entry from Double Trouble:
A Bibliographic Chronicle of Ace Mystery Doubles:
D-37. The Drowing Wire.
Claire, Marvin. First edition (1953). 156 pp. Hubin, p.
83.
"I'm Joe. I'm Joe Haugen. I'm not a big guy in these parts.
Not big in the way most people think. I guess I stand around six
foot two or three. I'm not sure which and it don't make any difference.
I'm a trapper up here. I trap in the winter and I fish in the summer.
I like my life and I wouldn't give it up for anything in the world.
Not even for ten thousand dollars and a whore."
I'm Sheldon. I'm Sheldon Jaffery. I like books. I don't
like all books. I especially don't like books that start out like
this one. I don't care whether Joe Haugen is six foot two or three.
I don't care when he traps and fishes. I think he's stupid.
Ten thousand dollars and a whore sounds like a pretty good price to me.
This crime novel was written by Marvin. It was written by Marvin
Claire. This was the only crime novel written by Marvin Claire.
I would have given Marvin ten thousand dollars and a whore not to write
another crime novel. He did it for free. I like that very much.
Jaffery, Sheldon
Bibliographies:
The Arkham House companion: fifty years
of Arkham House: a bibliographical history and collector's price guide
to Arkham House and Mycroft & Moran including the revised and expanded
horrors and unpleasantries.
The Collector's Index to Weird Tales.
with Fred Cook. Bowling Green State University
Popular
Press, 1985. Hardcover 4to, $25
Double Trouble: Ace Mystery Doubles
Bibliography. Starmont House, 1992. Paperback,
$25 Turtleback, $30
Future and Fantastic Worlds: A Bibliographic
Retrospect of Daw Books.
Horrors and Unpleasantries : A Bibliographical
History and Collector's Price Guide to Arkham House Publications.
Edited Anthologies:
The Corpse Maker.
House of Three Horrors and Other Spicy Tales.
Monsters of Voodoo Island and Other Strange
Tales of the Jungle.
Selected Tales of Grim and Grue from the
Horror Pulps. Bowling Green
State University Popular Press, 1987. $40
Secret of the Earth Star and Others .
Sensuous Science Fiction from the Weird and
Spicy Pulps.
To the Stars, and Beyond.
Weirds Annotated Facsimile: Examples of the
Weird Menace Stories of the 1930's.
By
now, Adri has an international fanclub and is a New York Times bestselling
author. But years ago, I worked with Adri years ago on some hysterical
plays she'd written, and treasured the experience. Her sense of humor
is contagious and her keen knack for capturing the bizarre and making it
real is enviable. My neighbor popped into Loganberry awhile back,
all excited about the new book she was reading, and telling me stories
about the interview she'd heard on NPR, and, hey!, it was Adri's book!
With a name like Ave Maria Mulligan and a quest for an unknown Italian
father named Mario da Schilpario, how can it miss? Big Stone Gap
begins in the coal mining hills of Big Stone Gap, Virginia, with bookmobiles
and outdoor historical Dramas, and features a campaign stop of senatorial
candidate John Warner and wife Elizabeth Taylor. Just as Ave Maria
thinks her life has hit an unbearable stasis, the adventure begins.
Warm and compassionate, this is a happy read and an inspiring journey.
And the series keeps on going, so you don't have to be disappointed when
you finish and wonder what to read next....
Trigiana, Adriana.
Big Stone Gap. Random
House, 2000. New hardback, $24 New paperback, $13
Big Cherry Holler.
Random House, 2001. New hardback, $25. New paperback, $14
Milk Glass Moon. Random
House. Random House, 2002. New hardback, $25.
The Queen of the Big Time.
Random House; (July 6, 2004) New hardback, $24.95
Lucia Lucia.
Random House, 2003. New hardback, $24.95 New paperback, $13.95
Cooking with My Sisters: One Hundred Years
of Family Recipes, from Bari to Big Stone Gap. by
Adriana and her sisters. Random House, 2004. New hardback,
$24.95
Rococo.
Random House, 2005. New hardback, $24.95
