Howard Norman - Haunting of L

[Dave Monroe]

Oh, okay, THAT Howard Norman.  One of the days I gotta
actually read these books Pynchon's been pimping ...

--- John Bailey <johnbonbailey at hotmail.com> wrote:
> First chapter of the Haunting of L is available at:
>
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/ae/books/ch1/1396006
> 
> I didn't know of Pynchon's endorsement but I suppose
> the subject matter of Spirit Photography (it seems)
> would be up his alley ...

These are worth clicking around in, by the way ...

http://www.photographymuseum.com/believe1.html

http://www.amphilsoc.org/library/exhibits/spirits/intro.htm

Off the top of my pointy, pointy head ...

Owen, Alex. The Darkened Room: Women, Power
   and Spiritualism in Late Victorian England.
   Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1990.

And speaking of, er, Tolkien, not to mention faerie
photography, do see as well ...

Bown, Nicola.  Fairies in Nineteenth-Century Art
   and Literature.  New York: Cambridge UP, 2001.

http://us.cambridge.org/titles/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521793157

Silver, Carole G.  Strange and Secret Peoples:
   Fairies and Victorian Consciousness.
   New York: Oxford UP, 1999.

http://www.oup-usa.org/isbn/0195144112.html

> In other news, has anyone read the new novel by Dave
> Eggers ....

You know, having actually lived the real-life (that
is, rather less reader-friendly) version of A
Mindnumbing Work of Staggering Pretension, I simply
can't bring myself to put up with him anymore ...

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