By: Mayra Calvani,
on 11/26/2008
Hi all,
It was nice being on the interviewee seat for once at Blogcritics Magazine.
Dorothy Thompson, CEO of Pump Up Your Book Promotion, was kind enough to interview me as part of my November virtual book tour.
You may read the full interview here.
Cheers!
Mayra
By: Rebecca,
on 12/17/2007
Robert Mack is the editor The Oxford World’s Classics Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Sweeney Todd is the tale of an infamous London barber who partners with a pie-maker to do devilish things with his customers. Below Mack mulls over cannibalism. This post first appeared on Powell’s.
Have you ever noticed just how many cannibals there seem to be about these days? I don’t mean the real thing (well … not just yet, at least, although be patient; we will come to them in time). No, for the moment I simply mean: have you ever noticed the extent to which the actual language we use on a day-to-day basis itself remains to an extraordinary degree permeated by the signs or the lingering rumours of what might also be described as ‘lustful cannibalism’ — a common rhetoric of erotic possession and physical consumption? (more…)
Hi Mayra...I never get tired of reading your interviews that you give and you do. Very well done! KUDOS!
Warmly,
Donna McDine
www.donna-mcdine.blogspot.com
Thanks for your kind words, Donna!