Comments on: Momentary Sayonara http://www.edrants.com/momentary-sayonara/ a cultural website in ever-shifting standing Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:01:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: gwenda http://www.edrants.com/momentary-sayonara/comment-page-1/#comment-2172 gwenda Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.edrants.com/?p=1180#comment-2172 Couldn't agree with you more, but feel compelled to point out that Kelly had a story in Thrilling Tales (it was actually inspired by the concept of the ...is this a cat? zine by FOW). Couldn’t agree with you more, but feel compelled to point out that Kelly had a story in Thrilling Tales (it was actually inspired by the concept of the …is this a cat? zine by FOW).

]]> By: CAAF http://www.edrants.com/momentary-sayonara/comment-page-1/#comment-2173 CAAF Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.edrants.com/?p=1180#comment-2173 I agree too. Started reading the collection last night and got thrilling goosebumps. FWIW, the Julavits story gave me the serious CREEPS. I kept looking over my shoulder. p.s. Isn't Maud's whoop-ass a marvelous thing? I agree too. Started reading the collection last night and got thrilling goosebumps. FWIW, the Julavits story gave me the serious CREEPS. I kept looking over my shoulder.

p.s. Isn’t Maud’s whoop-ass a marvelous thing?

]]> By: Ed http://www.edrants.com/momentary-sayonara/comment-page-1/#comment-2174 Ed Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.edrants.com/?p=1180#comment-2174 Gwenda: Actually, I cited Kelly Link specifically BECAUSE she appeared in the last one. The thing about these Chabon compilations is that if they intend to introduce an audience to "thrilling tales" or "astonishing stories," then it would be prudent to single out the resolute storytellers that can be found in the so-called genre mags. That's all I'm saying. Haven't hit Julavits yet, Carrie, but Mitchell's sentence, "Hotel rooms store up erotic charge, and men sleeping alone are its copper wires" alone is worth the price of admission. Gwenda: Actually, I cited Kelly Link specifically BECAUSE she appeared in the last one. The thing about these Chabon compilations is that if they intend to introduce an audience to “thrilling tales” or “astonishing stories,” then it would be prudent to single out the resolute storytellers that can be found in the so-called genre mags. That’s all I’m saying.

Haven’t hit Julavits yet, Carrie, but Mitchell’s sentence, “Hotel rooms store up erotic charge, and men sleeping alone are its copper wires” alone is worth the price of admission.

]]> By: CAAF http://www.edrants.com/momentary-sayonara/comment-page-1/#comment-2175 CAAF Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.edrants.com/?p=1180#comment-2175 Literary sidenote: Brad Leithauser's Seaward also has a great passage about the irresistible urge to masturbate in motels. (An impulse, I should add, not confined to men.) Maybe there should be an anthology of this type of story as well? "Thrilling Tales of Pulling The Copper Wire at The Ramada"? Literary sidenote: Brad Leithauser’s Seaward also has a great passage about the irresistible urge to masturbate in motels. (An impulse, I should add, not confined to men.)

Maybe there should be an anthology of this type of story as well? “Thrilling Tales of Pulling The Copper Wire at The Ramada”?

]]> By: gwenda http://www.edrants.com/momentary-sayonara/comment-page-1/#comment-2176 gwenda Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.edrants.com/?p=1180#comment-2176 Ah, I see what you're saying. The way I read it originally was that the credible would come if he included them, which he has (at least one cited anyway). I personally think he earned street cred by including Carol Emshwiller in vol. 1; everything else is cake. I can't remember how the biographical notes were written, but it seems like it would be odd to single out the fact that some of these writers are genre and some aren't overtly other than in listing publications? Anyway, my head hurts and I'm away from my books! (And I thought the Conjunctions issue that came out around the same time had much stronger fantastical work.) Ah, I see what you’re saying. The way I read it originally was that the credible would come if he included them, which he has (at least one cited anyway). I personally think he earned street cred by including Carol Emshwiller in vol. 1; everything else is cake. I can’t remember how the biographical notes were written, but it seems like it would be odd to single out the fact that some of these writers are genre and some aren’t overtly other than in listing publications? Anyway, my head hurts and I’m away from my books!

(And I thought the Conjunctions issue that came out around the same time had much stronger fantastical work.)

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