tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-115399482012-05-26T00:44:38.088-04:00Directions to the Palace: Seek out Giacometti’s “The Palace at 4 a.m.” Go back precisely two hours. See towers and curtain walls of matchsticks, marble, marbles, light, cloud at stasis. Walk in. The beggar queen is dreaming on her throne of words… Welcome. You have arrived at the web home of MARLY YOUMANS, maker of novels, poetry collections, and the occasional fantasy for younger readers.marly youmansnoreply@blogger.comBlogger816125This is an XML content feed. It is intended to be viewed in a newsreader or syndicated to another site, subject to copyright and fair use.tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539948.post-2335010981155097972012-05-26T00:02:00.001-04:002012-05-26T00:25:00.384-04:00

After lunch with the grand Louis D. Rubin, Jr., I have moved on to Pittsboro and enjoyed a Friday evening of Susan Ketchum singing and Marjorie Hudson reading from Accidental Birds of the Carolinas (honorable mention for the PEN Hemingway.) Lovely counterpoint. Reading from A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage at McIntyre's (Fearrington Village / Pittsboro) at 11:00 a.m.  So goodnight, all!

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The Countess and Excelsior take Pip in after he's been beaten senseless, a state Youmans describes in ways that force contagion. Pip's is a harrowing delirium, much like his migraine auras, both of which we're made to feel and reel from. I have not read another writer who so perfectly captures in words the scary wiles of brain activity suddenly gone awry. Youmans speaks into experience that

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Thanks to Jamie Fiocco and Flyleaf Books for a lovely reading (from both A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage and The Throne of Psyche) last night--I had so much fun that I completely forgot to take a picture... And I had the pleasure of writers-and-artist in attendance: Laura Frankstone of Laurelines, Jeffery Beam, Lauren Winner (with Emily Hylden, hurrah!), Erica Eisdorfer (with family in

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I'm back in the Triangle (after another brief stay in the mountains), reading from A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage and The Throne of Psyche tonight at Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 7:00 p.m. See new review below...

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A long and magnificent review of A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage by writer Linda McCullough Moore at Books and Culture, edited by that great bookman, John Wilson. A taste: Which brings us—not before time—to Marly Youmans, whose new novel A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage is literary fiction at its finest. (Tell me you didn't see that coming.) Here is fiction which required the

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Poet Dale Favier has been reading A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage and making notes about it as he goes on his blog, mole.  Now he has put all the comments together as a lovely fat Amazon note. I enjoyed reading it very much!

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Thanks to books editor Greg Langley at The Baton Rouge Advocate for this morning's new review, tracing the path of a Pip who by the end of the book "is not yet out of his teens, young and beautiful and already a thousand years old." He writes that "Youmans tells Pip’s story in her lyric, poetic voice, offering readers vivid characters and unforgettable scenery. The tragedy that begins the story

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Having a mad day: just found out that I need to add eight pages to The Foliate Head (poetry book forthcoming in the UK from Stanza Press) for printer's reasons... So Clive, Andrew, and I are scrambling. However, I must rush because I have a reading from A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage tonight at City Lights Bookstore in Sylva, North Carolina at 6:30, and afterward I go to dinner with my

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From Nancy [Olson, owner of Quail Ridge Books in Raleigh, NC]: Occasionally I read a new work of fiction that blows me away, and Marly Youman's A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage (Mercer $24) did just that. Every page in this book resonates with beautifully crafted language, a "universal melody that sings of deep loss and conciliation," and a moving story of a

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Read chapter one at Scribd ; visit the book page; see the facebook page; try for the Goodreads giveaway of 24 books, April 15-May 15, ending in less than a day; find the Amazon  hardcover / ebook or indie books search;  order from Mercer. .goodreadsGiveawayWidget { color: #555; font-family: georgia, serif; font-weight: normal; text-align: left; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal;

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Maggie Tobias writes about A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage in the Sylva Herald: reading at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 16th at City Lights Bookstore, Sylva. Read chapter one at Scribd ; visit the book page; see the facebook page; try for the Goodreads giveaway of 24 books, April 15-May 15; find the Amazon  hardcover / ebook or indie books search;  order from Mercer.

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A delayed post: clearly written a few days ago. Waking, I remembered that the marvelous Maurice Sendak died yesterday. Amazing that the planet can go on without his curmudgeonly verdicts and masterful strokes of brush and pen. His was a life that mattered to many in the world of books and theatre and bedtime reading. I shall have to hunt up my beloved The Juniper Tree and have a little mental

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Thanks to Dale Favier for continuing to meditate on A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage on his blog as he moves through the book. I liked what he had to say from the start, as in his contrast with Faulkner--that in the book fullness, not emptiness is behind all things. His blog, mole, is wonderfully full of what Melville called deep diving and new poems. His latest Pip comment: It takes a

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Joyce Dixon suggested I do a Pinterest page especially for A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage, and so I have started one with 20 pins. (I love the little boy with rickets!) For giveaway information and other links for the book, please look at the foot of the prior post.

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The Foliate Head, with a wealth of images by Clive Hicks-Jenkins and marvelous design work by Andrew Wakelin. Forthcoming from Stanza Press in the UK.

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1.  GREEN MAN DREAMING Probably I shouldn't bother to post today because Clive Hicks-Jenkins has put such a long, interesting recollection of our first acquaintance in the comments of the last post that it is bound to be more appealing than whatever I could possibly write! Clive and Andrew Wakelin are currently in cahoots on the interior and cover designs for The Foliate Head (UK: Stanza Press),

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Here's a peep at a division page for The Foliate Head from the Artlog of Clive Hicks-Jenkins; if you jump there, you may view Andrew Wakelin at work on the design for the book in the very room where I stayed when I traveled to Wales a year ago and enjoyed long wonderful days at Ty Isaf, reveling in Clive's beautifully-arranged world and all the festivities for his 60th birthday retrospective at

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That image? One of many heads tossed off by Clive Hicks-Jenkins in his joyful fooling with ideas for The Foliate Head. Andrew Wakelin and Clive are now playing with the design of the book. I am eager to see it, and thank Pete Crowther of Stanza Press (UK) for requesting a manuscript of poetry. Alas, I've realized that I neglected to ask for comments, being so busy with A Death at the White

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A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage Read chapter one at Scribd  See the book page See the new facebook page Goodreads giveaway, April 15-May 15:  a generous 24 copies from Mercer - please sign up! Amazon hardcover and ebook Indie bookstore search Buy direct from Mercer By mid-morning, I had helped one teenage boy with homework, done a phone interview on the new novel,

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A snip from A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage (Mercer University Press - The Ferrol Sams Award for Fiction, 2012):  Beside the rails, Pip drew himself to his utmost height, balancing on his bare toes, feeling the coming palsy of earth in his feet and legs as the locomotive bored forward through the molasses-heavy afternoon, tearing away the tethers of sleepiness that held the town until,

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The day is perking along: got up and ran to voice lesson to sing Cesar Franck's Panis Angelicus, nabbed a piece of birthday cake and sang Happy Birthday; and raced back through dewy Cooper Park for the first conference call with The National Book Award judges for young people's literature. And it all went easily: we're all so nice and agreeable! Now I must drag out the grindstone and firm up my

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