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So no damned snow, even though there was supposed to be 5-7 inches by this morning.
"Under the Bottom of the Lake," by Jeff Ford from my guest edited issue of Subterranean Magazine (#7), will appear in David Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer's Year's Best Fantasy #8 from Tachyon Books. The pub. date is June 1st, '08.
and I erred earlier:
"Pirates of the Somali Coast" by Terry Bisson, also from that issue, will be in the Hartwell/Cramer Year's Best SF #13 from Harper/Eos (not the Tachyon book).
I forgot that Laird Barron's "The Forest" from Inferno will also be in the Hartwell/Cramer antho above.
Congratulations to the authors.
I went to see William Inge's Come Back, Little Sheba last night at the Roundabout theater. I'd only ever before seen the movie with Shirley Booth and Burt Lancaster. Lola and Doc are a childless couple married for 25 years. She's a housewife but her heart's not into it and she misses their lost dog, Sheba. He's an alcoholic who goes to AA (first mention of the organization in fiction) and has been off drink for almost a year. A chiropractor who was studying medicine to be a full doctor before Lola got pregnant and they both had to leave school and get married (she lost the baby and was infertile thereafter). Young, attractive college student is rooming with them and has local boyfriend and one from away. That's the set up. Lola's loneliness is palpable. They have no friends, she's been out of touch with her own family (who didn't approve of her marriage)and her relationship with Doc seems a bit ...unsteady.
While there are some aspects of the play that are dated and some that feel like a lovely little time capsule (the milkman deliveries) it still packs a wallop, especially the second act, in which Doc goes on a bender and gets violent. Very powerful, and ultimately quite moving. The casting has Lola played by an African American and Doc as Caucasian, which while less realistic for that time period (late 40s early 50s)in the sense that it would be noticed/commented upon, etc in real life, works fine.
"Under the Bottom of the Lake," by Jeff Ford from my guest edited issue of Subterranean Magazine (#7), will appear in David Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer's Year's Best Fantasy #8 from Tachyon Books. The pub. date is June 1st, '08.
and I erred earlier:
"Pirates of the Somali Coast" by Terry Bisson, also from that issue, will be in the Hartwell/Cramer Year's Best SF #13 from Harper/Eos (not the Tachyon book).
I forgot that Laird Barron's "The Forest" from Inferno will also be in the Hartwell/Cramer antho above.
Congratulations to the authors.
I went to see William Inge's Come Back, Little Sheba last night at the Roundabout theater. I'd only ever before seen the movie with Shirley Booth and Burt Lancaster. Lola and Doc are a childless couple married for 25 years. She's a housewife but her heart's not into it and she misses their lost dog, Sheba. He's an alcoholic who goes to AA (first mention of the organization in fiction) and has been off drink for almost a year. A chiropractor who was studying medicine to be a full doctor before Lola got pregnant and they both had to leave school and get married (she lost the baby and was infertile thereafter). Young, attractive college student is rooming with them and has local boyfriend and one from away. That's the set up. Lola's loneliness is palpable. They have no friends, she's been out of touch with her own family (who didn't approve of her marriage)and her relationship with Doc seems a bit ...unsteady.
While there are some aspects of the play that are dated and some that feel like a lovely little time capsule (the milkman deliveries) it still packs a wallop, especially the second act, in which Doc goes on a bender and gets violent. Very powerful, and ultimately quite moving. The casting has Lola played by an African American and Doc as Caucasian, which while less realistic for that time period (late 40s early 50s)in the sense that it would be noticed/commented upon, etc in real life, works fine.
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It's so magical- all silent and white! :)
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Most disappointing snowpocalypse ever.
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COME BACK LITTLE SHEBA
Even more unlikely than the unremarked upon inter-racial marriage was the fact that the husband's AA sponsor was African American and that he manhandled the husband in the drunk scene. (In mid-twentieth century America even liberal Northern communities wouldn't hire African American policeman because it wouldn't do to have them arrest white criminals.)
That said, the whole drunk sequence was incredibly powerful – it’s the part of the play that still works, I think.
Amusing (to me anyway) was the way Inge (a very closeted homosexual) was able to pack his cast with hot young studs - both the young border's boyfriends, the Western Union messenger and especially the milkman!
Rick Bowes
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