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Laren Stover
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About meOut right now..an article in BG magazine on the sensual "Cook in Boots," Ravinder Bhogal, whose recipes are like love sonnets...she wears high heels in the kitchen.......
I write fiction, nonfiction, short plays, poetry, letters, postcards...Prefer pen and ink and have a manual typewriter but confess to writing my most recent books on a PowerBook. I've published three books and used to write a diary from time to time for the New York Observer. I went to art school in Baltimore, took photographs, painted and fell in love with Japanese woodcuts. Instead of writing classses, studied Ancient Egyptian Grammar and Biosocial Aspects of Human Sexuality at Johns Hopkins, French at Peabody. Drink tea steeped in vintage teapots— it fuels the fury. What I'm writing— The Adventures of the Red Panda, 12 chapters, for my nephew Rupert, a fictionalized memoir: Nick's Inferno: The 27 Notebooks of Nick Dante. Up on Guernica, a funny, sad story, The Last Geronimo...http://www.guernicamag.com/fiction/1100/...
JULY 11, 2008 The Daily News. Hip, surreal estate writer Jason Sheftell takes you to Laren and Paul's home, The Ivory Tower. https://www.nydailynews.com/real_estate/...
About my libraryOn shelves, floor to ceiling, and across the front door and in tumbles throughout the house. My collection: Eclectic. Poetry: Sappho, Coleridge, Kleinzahler, Rimbaud, Rossetti. Fiction: Capote, Colette, Huysmans, Anita Loos, McCabe, Mishima, Tom Robbins, Waugh. Art: Balthus, Edo woodcuts, Ancient Egyptian, Joseph Cornell, illustrated manuscripts, Beardsley, Egon Schiele, Darger, Paul Klee. Photography: Marion Ettlinger, Pre-Raphaelite, vintage! Nonfiction:Edgar Cayce, Artaud, Ninjinski, Malcolm X, Arctic Explorations, explorations on absinthe. Books on bats, hedgehogs, monkeys, mushrooms, Scottish tartans, chakras, saints, angels, fairies, etiquette books from the 1920's, the My Book House collection from my father and the books of friends. Fashion: Society in Vogue, Diana Vreeland and Edith Head, of course! Sineology and H.G. Wells...many books from my late father, Dr. Leon Stover and all the books written by Dr. Leon Stover! I adore old, hardcover books with embossed covers touched with gold and engravings over which there is a piece of tissue. And I have scraps of paper found on the street. I've stopped lending my books but sometimes...I give one away. (When you lend a book, you give it up.)
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Here's a bit from the beginning:
BOHEMIAN GIRL
I am washing Duschecka all over. She is a tree branch that nobody knows how grew arms and legs just where you would. Well, most of one leg. She broke off from the only tree growing anywhere in this prairie, with a knot on one side that could’ve been a face. Bone-white when I found her, with all her bark gone to weather and storm, heat and hoppers and deer, she turned black, being in the dirt a lot like me.
I scrub her and then sink her to the river floor but I hold onto her leg the way Pa did mine, teaching me swimming until I almost drowned, then I use the sand from the river bottom on her to clean her back to white. At ten, girls have a want but not for a baby’s crying—a listening. I talk to her while I slip this deer hide over her shoulders and down under the place where I tie a Christ knot. I call it that for it has a cross twisted into it if you look close. But I am not a Christ person so much as the next person, you would be surprised. The Indian who keeps me gets along fine without the Christ god, so snug and bound with His rosaries and rules. The Indian believes instead in his own. This is all well and good but the danger in any of those gods is that in believing, people forget to do for themselves.
posted by svoboda at 4:49 pm (EST) on Nov 3, 2009
posted by lewiscrofts at 5:46 pm (EST) on Aug 28, 2009
"Me and Edith Head" is actually a short chapbook comic. You can get it directly from me (via sararyan.com/publications/edith) or read it online: http://www.comicspace.com/sararyan/comic...
Best -- Sara
posted by sararyan at 12:33 pm (EST) on Jul 29, 2009
posted by cmtusa at 12:19 pm (EST) on Mar 25, 2009
Was wondering if you'd be interested in reviewing my new novel and posting your comments here as well as a few other book-related sites. Saw you liked Butcher Boy, and I thought you might like my novel since it's also about a disturbed adolescent and a bit dark. I could e-mail you the novel in an e-book format if you'd like. Let me know if you're interested. Here's a link to a summary in case you're interested:
http://christophertusa.com/blog/?page_id...
Thanks,
Chris
posted by cmtusa at 10:19 am (EST) on Mar 25, 2009
posted by Debershoff at 1:16 pm (EST) on Oct 25, 2008
posted by Debershoff at 7:18 am (EST) on Oct 9, 2008
Glad to make your neighborhood acquaintance.
Cheers!
David
posted by Debershoff at 7:39 pm (EST) on Oct 8, 2008
- Deepak Chopra
posted by theoldman at 1:08 pm (EST) on Oct 2, 2008