The Crone Moon Wanes
And with it, some news
In this Missive:
- Ashes and Stones in the Sunday New York Times
- My zines from the 90s, included in an upcoming Brooklyn Museum show, are featured in Hyperallergic
- A reminder about changes to the Outlier Hour
I’m writing this on Samhain morning, transmitting into the future, to the quarter moon—a bit of temporal magic. The moon over Kirkwall has been incredible—bright, low and wreathed in clouds, like ectoplasmic angels in a protective huddle. It persists even into the morning—a sketchy white circle in endless blue. I couldn’t capture this with my phone camera, so I didn’t even try.
By the time you read this, I will have done some shadow work and then laid around reading Pratchett’s Wintersmith because Hel knows I need a break—my mental health hasn’t been great lately.
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Look at this clipping my US agent sent me. The same wonderful online NYT review made it into the Sunday Book Review section of the paper—a major coup—at the Samhain full moon, no less.
Next month a few of the zines I created in the 90s with artist Laura Splan will be on display in the Brooklyn Museum as part of the Copy Machine Manifesto show. There will also be a short video poem included—I made a few of those back in the day, with the clunky, labour intensive tech we had back then. I’ve been developing the artist statement I drew up for the curator (I don’t think it was used in any capacity) into an essay about the work in the show and about the time it was made, a Riot Grrrl moment in SoCal. I’ll have that ready for paid subscribers on the New Moon.
In the meantime, here is some coverage of the show in Hyperallergic by Maya Pontone—which fortuitously includes an issue zine Beehive with a cover I collaged and hand painted.
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