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Singing praise
Jun. 17th, 2006 10:42 amYesterday was a very good day, highlighted by good friend Sonya Taaffe’s (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sovay) getting some much-deserved attention for her wonderful story collection. Caítlin R. Kiernan posted her reactions to Singing Innocence and Experience at both her livejournal and amazon.com.
This book is brilliant. It shines with the darkness and light of wonder and awe which I have spent the last fourteen years trying to put down on paper. Indeed, I have no trouble saying that these stories are one of the rare bits of fiction to wow me in the last decade. They hit me like Bradbury hits me, or Angela Carter, or Kathe Koja, Thomas Ligotti or Shirley Jackson. They revel in the power of myth, but in no unseemly way. They strain to contain the sheer force of their telling. In these pages, the reader will find a woman made of stars (or stars in the shape of a woman), a cynical unicorn and a reluctant virgin, an ophiomorphic plague, the place where lost ships go, a glimpse of Lot's nameless wife and an encounter with Adam's nameless and untouchable second wife, an accidental golem, a perfectly ordinary teenage boy perplexed at the coming loss of his nereid sister, drowned ghosts and terrible sacrifice, the singing head of Orpheus, and a hundred marvels more. If you still have a heart and have not forsaken wonder for the mythless drought which so many seem to mistake for adulthood, these stories will leave you breathless, as will Sonya Taaffe's astounding way with words. And all this from an author who is surely at least ten years my junior. I'd give my left hand for such language and the mind in back of it all. And I say none of these things lightly. If my writing or my opinion means anything at all to you, please, please buy this collection and devour it and be amazed . . . If it contained only "Constellations, Conjunctions" and "Kouros," it would be worth twice the price.
What can I say: I agree wholeheartedly. Read what else Sonya has to say about all this, and more.
This makes me very happy, not only for a friend’s fame, but also because we published five of those stories originally in Not One of Us. And while I’m at this shameless self-promotion…Sonya’s story “Chez Vous Soon,” a favorite of mine, appears in our latest issue, and Sonya also has a story (“Another Coming”) in the soon-to-be-released collection The Best of Not One of Us.
sovay) getting some much-deserved attention for her wonderful story collection. Caítlin R. Kiernan posted her reactions to Singing Innocence and Experience at both her livejournal and amazon.com.This book is brilliant. It shines with the darkness and light of wonder and awe which I have spent the last fourteen years trying to put down on paper. Indeed, I have no trouble saying that these stories are one of the rare bits of fiction to wow me in the last decade. They hit me like Bradbury hits me, or Angela Carter, or Kathe Koja, Thomas Ligotti or Shirley Jackson. They revel in the power of myth, but in no unseemly way. They strain to contain the sheer force of their telling. In these pages, the reader will find a woman made of stars (or stars in the shape of a woman), a cynical unicorn and a reluctant virgin, an ophiomorphic plague, the place where lost ships go, a glimpse of Lot's nameless wife and an encounter with Adam's nameless and untouchable second wife, an accidental golem, a perfectly ordinary teenage boy perplexed at the coming loss of his nereid sister, drowned ghosts and terrible sacrifice, the singing head of Orpheus, and a hundred marvels more. If you still have a heart and have not forsaken wonder for the mythless drought which so many seem to mistake for adulthood, these stories will leave you breathless, as will Sonya Taaffe's astounding way with words. And all this from an author who is surely at least ten years my junior. I'd give my left hand for such language and the mind in back of it all. And I say none of these things lightly. If my writing or my opinion means anything at all to you, please, please buy this collection and devour it and be amazed . . . If it contained only "Constellations, Conjunctions" and "Kouros," it would be worth twice the price.
What can I say: I agree wholeheartedly. Read what else Sonya has to say about all this, and more.
This makes me very happy, not only for a friend’s fame, but also because we published five of those stories originally in Not One of Us. And while I’m at this shameless self-promotion…Sonya’s story “Chez Vous Soon,” a favorite of mine, appears in our latest issue, and Sonya also has a story (“Another Coming”) in the soon-to-be-released collection The Best of Not One of Us.
