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I've just uploaded to youtube an Interview with Quentin that was filmed a couple of weeks ago. I hope that you like it :-)


All the best

Ray

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A fascinating gentle meditative 'interview' - thanks!

[I have a lot of long lost relatives near Ystradgynlais through my Father's Llanelli connection]

des

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a splendid interview with one of my favorite authors. many thanks for posting this.

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Many thanks to Ray for these interviews. I'm already looking forward to the next!

Other authors I'd love to see (from the Tartarus stable):
Mark Samuels
Rhys Hughes
Angela Slatter

I'd also love for Ray to arrange a guided tour around the bookshelves and small press ephemera of D.F. Lewis (who technically, if rather obliquely, counts as a Tartarus author since he has had articles published in 'Wormwood').

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They're all good suggestions. Geography is a limiting factor, sadly...:confused:.

And as I'm in the UK and Angela Slatter is in Australia, I finally have good reason for using the following smiley: :p

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I see Angela is coming to WFC 2013 in Brighton, so perhaps you might catch up with her there, though I expect that will be a bit of a hectic weekend!

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Eibonvale has special promotional preorder offer for Defeated Dogs. The offer includes a sculptured bookmark made out of the author's hair ...

Read more about the book here.

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This looks good. Defeated Dogs is described as a retrospective collection on the Eibonvale site.. but (without checking) I'm sure I don't recognise most of the stories in the lineup other than Tzimtzum, could these be uncollected tales or my faulty memory?

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They are indeed uncollected. From Quentin's blog:
There's also another entry with a little more background on the collection.

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I regret to say I was too late (due to being offline) to have secured a lettered copy, but I'm infinitely pleased to report that I have secured a copy.

I haven't read that many of the stories before - I don't even know where half of them appeared and I hope the volume will contain bibliographival notes - but 'Sado-ga-shima' is definitely one of my favourite stories by Crisp, and it'll be a joy to read it in a collection outside of its original format.

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Hi all, I had no idea there was so much uncollected material and I am sure this book will be a real joy to read. Quentin is a very fine writer indeed and I dont imagine this edition being in print for long. REGARDS! J

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I was lucky enough to snag a lettered edition, although I haven't been informed which letter I have yet. I'm really looking forward to this. I've read a few of the stories, but not most of them, so I am super excited to have new material from Quentin to read. It has been much too long since I have savoured his work!

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I'm pleased to announce that, in preparation for the release of Defeated Dogs, The Stars at Noonday will shortly be featuring a 10,000-word interview with Quentin S. Crisp. Featured phrases include "mushroom tea," "Busby Berkeley," and "the smell of piss." I can only hope that the actual interview is as intriguing and wide-ranging as that makes it sound.

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The above-mentioned interview with Quentin is now available for reading.

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I respect the way Quentin shares his doubts, hesitations and dilemmas as he explores his answers. That's more authentic than the brisk, chiselled replies it must be tempting to present. Two parts of the interview resonated with me in particular: the first the careful and far-sighted thought he gives to what impact the internet will have on us, not in just the obvious social and economic ways, but on (as it were) our psyche, our way of being. The second was his discussion of the longing to retreat, to "go to the mountain". I don't mean retreat here in the negative, vanquished sense, but with the meaning of seeking sanctuary and silence, and time to reflect. It links with the question of what is an "authentic" life, which feels harder to find than it ever did. As ever, the skill of the interviewer is most in evidence when it is least seen, Brendan, so credit to you for eliciting these replies .

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Great interview. The quote from Aickman's 'Residents Only' is *very* relevant to my current RTR of 'The Magic Mountain' by Thomas Mann, and I have now quoted it in that RTR with acknowledgement to QSC.

BTW, RESIDENTS ONLY has long been a favourite Aickman story of mine, too. :)

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In fact, thinking about it, the Thomas Mann novel has relevance to the 'mountain' interview, too!

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Defeated Dogs have arrived and is my no. 1 priority after reading the Maurice Level collection on Centipede. I'm very eager to read this.

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This morning, I got an email from David Rix that the personalized copies of Defeated Dogs, had just been sent to Quentin for the actual personalization, so it looks like it will be at least another few weeks until I get my copy. I don't want to wait! I am so impatient to read all the stories by Quentin that I haven't read before, and to re-visit those that I have. Oh well. As the cliche goes, good things come to those who wait...

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Look what I've just received with some excitement. DEFEATED DOGS (Eibonvale Press) by Quentin S Crisp - authorially signed as special issue lettered E - plus special extra story pamphlet and a sculpture from QSC's shed hair.

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EDIT - My review of this book has started: DEFEATED DOGS s Gestalt Real-Time Reviews or RTRcausals

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I got mine today too - the letter U. (Which other letters were bagged by members of this forum?)
The hair bookmark is intriguing. I wasn't expecting a metal hook on the end! Maybe it's intended to tear the pages after you've read them - (I remember a Durutti Column album which had a sandpaper sleeve designed to destroy the records that were stacked against it (but ended up scratching itself)).
Perhaps this bookmark is dangerous in other ways too. Who can say what bizarre visions have seeped into those keratin molecules? (Didn't Stephen King plan to write a story about H. P. Lovecraft's pillow?)
I've only read Quentin's enigmatic handwritten message so far but I'm keen to dive in to this literary treasure.

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Defeated Dogs is due to be reviewed by Reggie Oliver in the Autumn issue of Wormwood.

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Des, I doubt whether even QSC has a hairy shed.

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I have finished my review of 'Defeated Dogs' and its accompanying pamphlet (see my link above). A great book. I sense it centres around a feeling of 'unrequited writing'... A new chocolate factory.
Sado-Ga-Shima is, for me, the QSC masterpiece overtaking 'Tzimtzum' by a hair's breadth, but they're all wonderful and a few may well become greater upon re-reading. Has anyone read Sado-Ga-Shima in its earlier incarnation?

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I've read it, but I haven't read beyond the first story in Defeated Dogs, so I wouldn't know if there is a difference.

The first incarnation was a masterpiece and in my opinion an instant classic - I'm very happy to see it being recognized as such by others.

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Got my copy of Defeated Dogs today along with the weirdest extra ever received with a book :-)
Don't know what to think about having the author's hair... I donated mine last week for a good cause, to make wigs, after a coworker was diagnosed with breast cancer. Any thoughts on having Quentin's hair in your collection?

My copy is Y. Match my daughter's name Ylenia.

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I finally received my copy of Defeated Dogs yesterday. It was well worth the wait! My copy is Letter I. I still can't figure out how I feel about having a bookmark made of Quentin's hair... Maybe it'll be worth something one day when he finally gets the recognition he deserves in the literary world. It can be an heirloom I will pass on to the children I will never have, or, even better, and much more likely, my cats!

It's been lovely to delve into these stories again, and I'm really looking forward to those I haven't read as of yet, about one third of the collection. I always find it such an exhilarating experience visiting the universe of Quentin's labyrinthine mind.

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The first thought that entered my mind upon holding this relic in my hand was: what piece of the author’s body will accompany the next publication? This question gave rise to a longer speculation of a quite morbid nature ... But, seriously, it is something truly special to have a lock of hair of one’s favourite author, and it will be cherished accordingly. Having neither offspring nor cats, I suppose that the sculptured bookmark will eventually be passed on to another collector (or relic hunter) along with the wonderful book (Letter D).

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At least one can be confident that the hair in question comes from nowhere more intimate than the esteemed author's scalp, and not even too close to there, Mr Crisp being blessed with a full head of luxuriant hair. One could not necessarily say the same of all male UK horror writers. Or even most. Or even many.

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I used QSC's hair sculpture visually throughout my real-time review of 'Defeated Dogs'.

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I wondered the same thing. Quickly passing over thoughts of "Remember You're a One-Ball!" I fixed on this:

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:eek: :)


Since I'm not a collector, I held off ordering until the lettered copies had all been sold. I could see that others were eager to get a lettered copy, and I was (to be honest) slightly weirded out by the prospect of receiving an authorshair bookmark. Unfortunately by ordering later I missed out on The Magical Universe. I received my hairless copy a couple weeks ago and, prompted by the comments here, quickly read "Sado-Ga-Shima." It is indeed one of QSC's best stories. In some ways I think it is the next (or a next) logical thematic step after "Troubled Joe" in the AGA,B! collection, even though it is a much different story and is certainly not a sequel in any way (I don't want to say anything misleading here). Some of us have lived in Sado-Ga-Shima for many years; some of us even prefer living there, all things considered.

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I posted my introduction to Defeated Dogs on my blog. Quentin S. Crisp, Defeated Dogs, Introduction | Oxygen

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This is a Kodagain song Quentin wrote the words to. I find them and the song very beautiful

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Hello.

In December last year, I got an e-mail telling me that My Opera, where I kept a blog from the 22nd of March, 2004 to the 21st of January, 2013, will be closing down in March 2014. It is now March 2014!

By accident (I rarely look at my blog lately), I looked at my blog today and saw that the date of closure is March the 3rd.

So... I am in the process of attempting to import my blog, while it is still salvageable, to Vivaldi.net:

https://vivaldi.net/

As some may know, I disabled comments when I closed my blog down, but I have enabled them again for the time remaining (before it disappears with My Opera).

The blog imported to Vivaldi, I may disable comments on again, simply keeping the blog as an archive.

I am also considering starting a new blog, but am undecided.

Just thought I'd let people know. Thanks.

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I actually have some minor publishing news. Since I am beginning to wonder if any new standalone work of mine will be published again, it does feel somewhat worthy of mention that a previously unpublished story of mine will be included in Postscripts #32/33. I actually wrote the story in... I would guess, about 20... 08, 09, 10? Probably more like 2008.

It's called 'Sea Angels'. It's quite short for me - around five or six thousand words.

I envisage it one day appearing in a collection for which I have the title The Magical Universe, and for which I have so far written the following stories:

The Magical Universe
Sea Angels
The Last Packet of Tea

And possibly one or two others that I can't remember at the moment.

YouTube

Love the commentary on that: "I guess that comes with being both gelatinous and translucent."

Anyway, I got an e-mail just now that reminded me of the fact that this story will actually be coming out.

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There is a new Kodagain CD out. The lyrics are written by Quentin, my sister Loha and myself.

It is for sale. I put the info up at my blog:

Kodagain CD available | Oxygen

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Congratulations. I've never known a lyricist before.

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It should be mentioned here that, in addition to the new Crisp heteronymous story advertised for the forthcoming Ex Occ Pessoa tome, there is a new, excellent Crisp story in the recently published Phantasm Japan (Haikasoru). The latter story is called "The Last Packet of Tea" (what a Crispian title!). It is a long short story or short novelette -- somewhere in that range.

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Well, as I don't have a blog anymore, and I don't have a personal Facebook page (I co-administrate three pages), I don't really have a regular place to let people know about forthcoming releases.

However, as there are a few things on the horizon at the moment, I thought, or hoped, it would be acceptable to mention them here. I say 'on the horizon', but one of them, The Boy Who Played with Shadows, is already here:

http://www.i-m.mx/Thessarether1941/p...n-s-crisp.html

I have also had a novella, called Erith, accepted recently, and it seems that the production process has started for that. I don't know a release date, so should perhaps stay vague on this for the time being. The subtitle is, 'A Supernatural, Anglo-Saxon I-Novel'.

Snuggly Books should also be bringing out a novella of mine, called Blue on Blue (after the song), later this year.

There are also other miscellaneous bits of publishing news, but perhaps I should save them till later.

Thanks.

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I hope The Boy Who Played with Shadows will be available from Zagava at some point.