You have been dead 28 years. I see what is left in the stars.
Do you have goosebumps? 'Cuz that just gave me goosebumps. The third installment of the Pencil Project is courtesy of Lynn Crosbie. Lynn writes a kick-ass weekly cultural criticism column for the Globe, and is the author of Miss Pamela's Mercy, VillianElle, Pearl, Queen Rat, and Liar (and that's just the poetry) and her appreciation of Michael Jackson written last year is most definitely worth a gander. Lynn describes the line above as a crystallization of her new book - consider this wooden pencil the official teaser! A G-Uknit exclusive, yo! A leak, if you will. I met Lynn over the summer when she walked into the bookshop (as she often does) one fine Saturday afternoon needing something to read. I love when Lynn comes in. Mostly because she swears like a sailor and I really love swearing and people who swear. But I was super nervous because how the hell do you recommend a book to Lynn Crosbie? I mentioned that I was reading Jonathan Tropper's This is Where I Leave You. And she bought it. And I was more nervous. But she liked it. And she called and told me she liked it. And that made my day.
4 comments:
This is an amazing project! I'll be at the QWAC too, so I'll definitely swing by and check them out in person. Great idea : )
I need this one - not sure if I'll be at Qwac, can you save me one?
Of course I will, Ro! It's one of my favourites, for sure.
And so excited to see Knotted Nest is gonna be there, too - I've had my eye on them table runners...
This is such a fantastic, lovely project. Usually we think of the writing as coming from inside of the pencil...like from the inside of a person. These are like pencil tattoos. Excriptions. Exographics. Hand-held aphorism technology. Beautiful!
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