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Her newest book, just out, is Dykes and Sundry Other Carbon-Based Life-Forms to Watch Out For. And she just said something I find utterly beautiful about my Venus of Chalk -- beyond beautiful, all the way to it makes me gasp and cry that she actually said that. She absolutely nailed what I was trying -- in my wildest dreams -- to do. Feels soooo gooood:

This neatly-stitched tale of a latter-day home economist’s “glaring departures from sensible living” is a religious experience. Under Susan Stinson’s microscopic needlework, the fabric of the phenomenal world shimmers with sublime beauty. A can of baking soda, a traffic pylon, a city bus -- these things will never look the same again. Stinson lavishes the same minute reverence on her human subjects, discovering rich, sacramental meaning in their most banal small talk. This book unravels what you think you know about women and men, the freakish and the normal, shame and salvation -- then mends it anew into a most surprising story.

Alison Bechdel

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Date: 2003-11-15 08:19 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] beccawrites.livejournal.com
oh *yay*.
YAY!
i can't wait until the release party!!!

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Date: 2003-11-15 09:44 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] susanstinson.livejournal.com
Yay, yay, yay!

My publisher told me a while ago that she's waiting to hear back from Bluestockings about the reading/party in NYC -- hope there's no problem -- fingers crossed.

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Date: 2003-11-15 09:45 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] beccawrites.livejournal.com
yeah, i hope so too! and if that doesn't work, maybe something at the center?

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Date: 2003-11-15 09:48 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] susanstinson.livejournal.com
Hello, sweet Becca! You're right here! Yeah, if it falls through, I'll ask you about other ideas...Elana told me there was a new reading series at a cafe called RubyFruit (which I don't know anything about), but I really do hope it ends at Bluestockings.

And now, it's time for me to stop mooning over what Alison said, which just thrills me head to toe, and go out in the sun already.

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Date: 2003-11-15 01:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] beccawrites.livejournal.com
allison and her words are pretty moony. :)
enjoy the sunshine!

Wow!!!

Date: 2003-11-23 09:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] puffpastry.livejournal.com
Ohmigod, Susan, I MUST read your new book!!! If my heroes like Alison, Hanne and Marilyn are raving the way they are, I need it NOW!!!! Congrats to you! :-)

Re: Wow!!!

Date: 2003-11-25 07:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] susanstinson.livejournal.com
Ah, thanks for the excitement! From glimpses in your journal, looks like you've got a lot of great stuff going on, too.

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