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susanstinsonPeggy Munson wrote a wild, intensely literary novel called Origami Striptease, published by Suspect Thoughts Press. I read an advance copy, and said, "Origami Striptease reads like William S. Burroughs and Djuna Barnes howling at a brutal paper moon." That's now a blurb on the cover of the book.
So I was delighted to hear that Origami Striptease is a current Lambda Literary Award finalist. Much, much less delightful is the news that, although she was scheduled to read via DVD at a finalist reading in San Francisco, her work was excluded at the last minute: she was censored.
Here's what Peggy wrote about it in her blog.
Illness is a theme in Origami Striptease, and Peggy also edited Stricken: Voices from the Hidden Epidemic of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. World-spinning, page-melting/freezing/burning explorations of gender and sexuality are also themes. To exclude the work from a reading intended to celebrate exciting new queer books is a terrible failure of nerve, and it is a literary failure as well. I'm so sorry to hear that this has happened.
As I understand it, the Lambda Literary Foundation has responded to criticism by making sure that Peggy's previously censored DVD is on the reading list for finalist readings in New York tonight and Boston May 4.
If you're in those cities, consider showing up in support. She's also reading via DVD with Alicia Goranson, Letta Neely, and Pagan Kennedy in Boston this Thursday.
So I was delighted to hear that Origami Striptease is a current Lambda Literary Award finalist. Much, much less delightful is the news that, although she was scheduled to read via DVD at a finalist reading in San Francisco, her work was excluded at the last minute: she was censored.
Here's what Peggy wrote about it in her blog.
Illness is a theme in Origami Striptease, and Peggy also edited Stricken: Voices from the Hidden Epidemic of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. World-spinning, page-melting/freezing/burning explorations of gender and sexuality are also themes. To exclude the work from a reading intended to celebrate exciting new queer books is a terrible failure of nerve, and it is a literary failure as well. I'm so sorry to hear that this has happened.
As I understand it, the Lambda Literary Foundation has responded to criticism by making sure that Peggy's previously censored DVD is on the reading list for finalist readings in New York tonight and Boston May 4.
If you're in those cities, consider showing up in support. She's also reading via DVD with Alicia Goranson, Letta Neely, and Pagan Kennedy in Boston this Thursday.
Introductions
Date: 2008-08-13 02:06 pm (UTC)