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NEW YEAR'S EVE, 1976, EMPIRE HOTEL
NYC
 Some of the gang who ended up
inspiring WAKING THE MOON. As my teenage son remarked, "You had
some sketchy-looking friends." For a number of years we held a raucous
annual party at the Empire, in those days an ungentrified heap.
This photo I think is from the first party.
L- R: Michael Waters, Oscar Long (inspiration for Oliver in WTM),
Julie Furth, me, Steve Cicciarrelli. Note my long red fingernails,
also cigarette and apparent color blindness.
THE BECKONING FAIR
ONES: SOME THOUGHTS ON MUSES
"A muse! The very notion of an artist's
muse has become so unfashionable as to be faintly embarrassing -
like admitting to a taste for Cherries Jubilee or Beef Wellington
or Ambrosia Salad, one of those outmoded culinary concoctions our
parents and grandparents found sophisticated, back in an era of
blowsy blondes and beefy leading men. Today the muse seems to be
an endangered species, if not utterly extinct: unsurprising, when
one considers that the muses were traditionally depicted as female,
thereby limiting their options for procreation with others of their
kind. "
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DARGER & TOLKIEN
: F&SF, MAY 2002
"Tolkien and Darger were almost exact contemporaries
- born a few months apart in 1892 and dying less than a year apart,
Darger in late 1972 and Tolkien in September 1973. Though they lived
and died in radically different worlds (Tolkien spent most of his
life in England, Darger in Chicago), and had adult lives that could
not be more diametrically opposed, their early years have an eerie,
almost uncanny symmetry."
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INTERVIEW WITH ROZ
KAVENEY 1999
"So much fantasy relies on the author's
having read Fraser's The Golden Bough or Robert Graves' The White
Goddess and nothing else. The White Goddess is a crank book, a crank
book of genius of course, but all the same ... Mind you, I found
Waking the Moon cited in an article in a pagan magazine as an authority
for the idea that there was a patriarchal brotherhood, the Benandanti,
that have been running things since antiquity, with no mention of
the fact that it is a novel, and a fantasy at that. People want
to believe something, and so they swallow anything."
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INTERVIEW WITH ATHENA
SYDNEY
"I thought, Well screw it, I'm never going
to be capable of writing something as brilliant as *that*, but I
can fucking well try. And so I did. I think GLIMMERING failed on
many levels -- it certainly failed commercially, and I think it
probably did my career some damage because of that - but I remain
immensely proud of it."
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More soon!
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