Wherever I lay my cat, that's my home. - Joanna Russ (Wesleyan Manuscript)
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Joanna Russ (Wesleyan Manuscript)
I'm about to run out of lap top power, but what better way to spend my last ten minutes? I've just read the manuscript of Russ's complete short stories which Wesleyan is reprinting (god bless 'em). I'm still hugely impressed, as impressed as I was as a kid. "Don't use the first person" we tell new writers, "it's a weak voice".
Over and over again Russ writes in the first person, or writes with a strong authorial voice overlaying the story (almost Brechtian at times) exhorting and harrassing her readership, turning the story back on us, saying "it happened like this....no, it happened quite differently....guess what? I was lying all the time it happened like this...". Russ takes in your face authorial agression and transforms it into something as delicate and beautiful a willow.
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| | I so yearn for a review copy of that:
Michael J. Lowrey
Sunrise Book Reviews
1847 N. 2nd Str.
Milwaukee, WI 53212-3760
Will it include any of her non-fiction as lagniappe? | From: | (Anonymous) |
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| Date: | January 13th, 2006 05:11 am (UTC) |
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| | Complete Joanna Russ Stories | (Link) |
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Will the Collected Joanna Russ be a hardcover or trade paper edition? | | From: | ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=92.2) fjm |
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| Date: | January 13th, 2006 07:18 am (UTC) |
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University of Liverpool is currently collecting her non-fiction. |
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