Yesterday was the summer MAPACA mini-session, a day of presentations in anticipation of this fall’s conference. I know, I’m no longer an academic but I am still persisting in being a scholar for some reason (habit mostly, I suppose). I do enjoy talking about this book! And yes, the fancy Folio Society edition with those…
Tag: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Glasgow 2024 AKA WorldCon
My schedule includes two academic presentations because I bent the rules slightly to talk about Strange & Norrell (not just an excuse to show Charles Vess’ glorious illustrations!) and a bit about Scots literary history as there is a special track for that. My topics: SCOTLAND’S FIRST FLIGHT: 1507 In 1507 alchemist John Damian flew…
Deluxe Strange & Norrell FTW
I was delighted — in the mad, action-packed, over-filled days before my departure — that the much anticipated last-I-swear-splurge-before-imminent-unemployment arrived: the Folio Society edition of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. Many of you know how much I delight in Susanna Clarke’s novel, but with the addition of illustrations and glorious endpapers by Charles Vess, is…
Revenant Journal: Performing Fairy Issue
My essay on Susanna Clarke’s Mr Simonelli is out now in the journal Revenant.
Hellebore 2: Get Yours!
Issue #2 of Hellebore is out in the wilds. Get your copy here (and order the first issue, too). Jam-packed full of magic and lore. My piece is on fairies as ‘the wild gods of the land’ — of course I namecheck Susanna Clarke’s Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell and Graham Joyce’s Some Kind of…
Pre-Order Hellebore #2: The Wild Gods
HELLEBORE #2: The Wild Gods Shipping in May: doesn’t it look gorgeous?! You can pre-order now. If you saw the stunning first issue, I know you’re already hitting that buy link. Here’s what’s up for the 2nd issue: A5 magazine, 80 pages approx. Printed on silk coated paper. Perfect binding. The notion of paganism as…
Dublin WorldCon & Inanna Sale
Get The Ascent of Inanna (includes me!) for just $10 this weekend only. Click here. I will be attending WorldCon in Dublin next week along with a huge crew of folks — including the Fox Spirit skulk! My schedule includes: ConEIRE 16 Aug 2019, Friday 17:00 – 17:50, Wicklow Hall 2A (Dances) (CCD) A love letter to…
Seven Books That Made Me
I have been tagged repeatedly in this meme (and the music one, and there ought to be an art one, too). I hate lists. I hate the inherent [ahem patriarchal, capitalist, etc] need to rank and rate and declare bests, that divides us into endless competition. But as the latest tagger, Helen Grant suggested, it’s…
MAMO: Rome
Good news! Just got word that my presentation ‘A Chieftain Unchosen: Examining the Raven King through Medieval Prophecy’ has been approved for MAMO: The Middle Ages in the Modern World conference, which will take place in Rome in November. Yay! One of my ulterior motives for saying no to other things is to make sure I…
Out Now: Tarot in Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
My essay “The Unlikely Milliner & The Magician of Threadneedle-Street” has been published in Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature. Click the 1st link to read a free PDF; click the 2nd to find information on ordering the issue (you can get it through your library, too). There’s a…