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December 04, 2006
Italian Edition / Party Invite
After all these years, Mysterious Skin is finally getting an Italian publisher. The house is Playground, and pictured at below left is the cover (I like it because it's totally different from any of the other editions of the book). The official launch was this week, I think, and I just did an interview for Italian Rolling Stone (so if anyone sees that and can read Italian, let me know what it says!).
Pictured above right: an invite for the holiday party being held Monday, December 4th at the Paradise Lounge here in Boston. The online Boston Globe has a little more news about it... basically, six literary journals from the area--Ploughshares, Agni, Post Road, Salamander, Quick Fiction, and Redivider--are hosting a party. I'm reading, as well as Elizabeth Searle, Pagan Kennedy, and Daphne Kalotay (but not the globetrotting Tom Perrotta as promised in the invite, darn it). The catch: we're not reading our own work, but SONG LYRICS. The song I'm reading remains secret until tomorrow night; however, here's a hint, for my sister at least: it's a song that was banned from radio stations in the 70s, and also the only song that made my sister cry with horror when we were kids... especially if we were at the dinner table. Any guesses?
Posted by scottheim at December 4, 2006 12:17 AM
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Yikes-- "Timothy"! What a strangely erotic song. I liked it because it had a curse word in it, too: "Hungry as hell, no food to eat..."
I just spent the last two hours going backwards through your blog-- very entertaining! The I read "Breaths"-- awesome story, beautiful rendering.
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at January 1, 2007 04:56 PM
And oh yeah, the answer to the question was "Timothy" by the Buoys... the only top-10 hit I can think of, maybe the only song I can think of, about cannibalism.
Posted by: Scott Heim at December 16, 2006 01:35 AM
ummmm, was it "grandma got run over by a reindeer"???
Posted by: michael_karo at December 9, 2006 01:16 AM
the cover is fantastic -- has an interesting pink white and grey cartoon relationship to the original, out-of-print version of dennis cooper's THE SLUTS.
http://www.denniscooper.net/thesluts.htm
(have you read it? it's his best book, i think.)
as for the banned 70s song, there's no doubt in my mind it's "boogie oogie oogie."
Posted by: teenagekicks at December 4, 2006 01:21 AM
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