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By: Jerry Beck,
on 10/8/2014
Blog: Cartoon Brew (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags: Dr. Seuss, Ideas/Commentary, Stanislaw Lem, Fritz Leiber, L. Frank Baum, Lyonel Feininger, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, Hejji, Queen Zixi of Ix, The Cyberiad, The Kin-der-Kids, Add a tag
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By: Matthew Cheney,
on 7/22/2012
Blog: The Mumpsimus (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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By: Neil Gaiman,
on 7/17/2012
Blog: Neil Gaiman (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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This morning, on the plane home, I was asked about the premiere on Tumblr, and thought I'd repost my reply here...
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By: Aaron Polson,
on 3/30/2012
Blog: The Other Aaron (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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This woman is not Tansy. Not in my imagination. Not from a book published in 1943, no matter how dark the fantasy. The hair, her dress, the gothed-out eyes... Not to mention the words at the bottom of the cover: "The Classic of Urban Fantasy". What? Urban Fantasy wasn't even a phrase one used in 1943. Was it?
This is marketing, sure, disguising a classic horror novel in trappings of the now to sucker new readers. Not unlike slapping a Twilighty cover on Romeo and Juliet, Wuthering Heights, and Pride and Prejudice:
Oh yes they did.
Does the cover effect my reading of the book? The jury is still out, but if I'm thinking about the cover instead of the content, I'd have to say all signs are pointing to YES. What about you?
By: Matthew Cheney,
on 3/21/2011
Blog: The Mumpsimus (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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My latest Strange Horizons column has been posted, this time a celebration of Fritz Leiber's centennary.
I mentioned last week that I needed to come up with a title for my Strange Horizons columns. Through much of last week I was fighting off the worst illness I've had in years, so perhaps the title is simply the product of fever, but nonetheless, now in a less fevered state, I like it: Lexias. It keeps to the pattern of the other columnists (Scores, Diffractions, Intertitles, etc.) in being a single, plural word. And it seems mostly accurate to my project, if you think of the word as Roland Barthes used it in S/Z: "a series of brief, contiguous fragments ... units of reading" (Richard Miller's translation). (For more on Barthes, by the way, this is an interesting site.)
But for my purposes, "lexias" is fun, too, because it is the term Samuel R. Delany picked up (from Barthes) for The American Shore, which can be described as a book-length study of Thomas Disch's "Angouleme" (as S/Z can be described as a book-length study of Balzac's "Sarrasine" -- and I say "can be described as" because to say either book is that seems to me too reductive -- each book is an awful lot of things).
Which is not to say that I think I belong in league with Barthes or Delany (ha!), any more than anyone who picks up a term belongs in the same league with anyone who has used it before, but that I like having a title that suggests fragmentation, experimentation, close reading, and realms of both subversive (or subverted) literature and thoughtful science fiction.
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By: Jerry Beck,
on 10/8/2014
Blog: Cartoon Brew (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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By: Matthew Cheney,
on 7/22/2012
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The Library of America has just posted a Fritz Leiber story, "Try and Change the Past", online. If you've never read any Leiber, now's as good a time as any to start.
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By: Neil Gaiman,
on 7/17/2012
Blog: Neil Gaiman (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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Last night I went to New York for The Dark Knight Rises premiere. I really enjoyed it. I think I preferred The Dark Knight movie, because it had Heath Ledger's Joker and a plot I found hard to predict. Dark Knight Rises doesn't have those things: once the set-up is done you have a pretty good idea of what's going to happen and when (even if you've worked hard to keep yourself spoiler free, as I had), but how it happens is the delight. I preferred the last movie, but this is a better Batman movie, and, I suspect, a better film. (It's my third-favourite film of the year so far: Moonrise Kingdom and The Cabin in the Woods are ahead of it.)
I wore a suit. I walked the red carpet (which was, of course, a black carpet). I was even interviewed...
This morning, on the plane home, I was asked about the premiere on Tumblr, and thought I'd repost my reply here...
So, as a super famous person, do you get random invites to these kinds of things? (spectacular movie premiers) or is this a scenario of 'I would like to see that' and your 'people' take care of such things?
By: Aaron Polson,
on 3/30/2012
Blog: The Other Aaron (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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I picked up a copy of Fritz Leiber's Conjure Wife on Amazon. Yes, I went for the dead tree edition for six bucks rather than a $7.69 e-copy. I'm still that guy. If the price was $3.99 or less on Kindle, maybe... but that's beside the point.
I'm a good twenty pages in, and it's a fine book, but the cover troubles me:
This woman is not Tansy. Not in my imagination. Not from a book published in 1943, no matter how dark the fantasy. The hair, her dress, the gothed-out eyes... Not to mention the words at the bottom of the cover: "The Classic of Urban Fantasy". What? Urban Fantasy wasn't even a phrase one used in 1943. Was it?
This is marketing, sure, disguising a classic horror novel in trappings of the now to sucker new readers. Not unlike slapping a Twilighty cover on Romeo and Juliet, Wuthering Heights, and Pride and Prejudice:
Does the cover effect my reading of the book? The jury is still out, but if I'm thinking about the cover instead of the content, I'd have to say all signs are pointing to YES. What about you?
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By: Matthew Cheney,
on 3/21/2011
Blog: The Mumpsimus (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags: Cheney publications, Delany, fritz leiber, Roland Barthes, Strange Horizons, Add a tag
My latest Strange Horizons column has been posted, this time a celebration of Fritz Leiber's centennary.
I mentioned last week that I needed to come up with a title for my Strange Horizons columns. Through much of last week I was fighting off the worst illness I've had in years, so perhaps the title is simply the product of fever, but nonetheless, now in a less fevered state, I like it: Lexias. It keeps to the pattern of the other columnists (Scores, Diffractions, Intertitles, etc.) in being a single, plural word. And it seems mostly accurate to my project, if you think of the word as Roland Barthes used it in S/Z: "a series of brief, contiguous fragments ... units of reading" (Richard Miller's translation). (For more on Barthes, by the way, this is an interesting site.)
But for my purposes, "lexias" is fun, too, because it is the term Samuel R. Delany picked up (from Barthes) for The American Shore, which can be described as a book-length study of Thomas Disch's "Angouleme" (as S/Z can be described as a book-length study of Balzac's "Sarrasine" -- and I say "can be described as" because to say either book is that seems to me too reductive -- each book is an awful lot of things).
Which is not to say that I think I belong in league with Barthes or Delany (ha!), any more than anyone who picks up a term belongs in the same league with anyone who has used it before, but that I like having a title that suggests fragmentation, experimentation, close reading, and realms of both subversive (or subverted) literature and thoughtful science fiction.
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See, if you'd got the ebook you wouldn't have been thinking about the cover...
(although I still sometimes buy paper books too like you)
For me the cover of a book plays an important factor - it's like setting the overall tone of the reading to come; then I go to the title.
I've seen many a great image ruined by shite fonts, and vice versa. Get the combination right and the thing just comes to life.
Don't worry, Aaron. I'm still "that guy" too. I always will be.
About the cover, yeah, it'd bug me. But that's because I'm overtly sensitiveness to marketing, consumerism, and conformity of all types.
I guess we should just be thankful they didn't put her in a mid-riff and slap a small-of-the-back tribal tattoo on her.
A quick google image search indicates that none of the various covers this book has had over the years have been particularly kind to Tansy.
I'll always prefer the movie poster:
http://ironbombs.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/1962_burn_witch_burn_poster_01.jpg?w=604