score!

[truepenny]

Good things this week.

1. My D&A check for Mélusine has arrived and been deposited.

2. I sold a story to Strange Horizons. (*excited bouncing*)

3. A local museum is renovating and a local used bookstore is closing. Ergo book sales. heres_luck and I went and enabled each other.


The Contemporary Soviet Poster

Familiar but Unique: The Monoprints of Joseph Goldyne.

Cunningham, Imogen. After Ninety.


Bishop, Elizabeth. The Complete Poems 1927-1979.

Chappell, Fred. Spring Garden: New and Selected Poems.

Hughes, Ted. Crow.

McPherson, Sandra. The God of Indeterminacy.

Van Walleghen, Michael. More Trouble with the Obvious.

Wojahn, David. Mystery Train.


Abelson, Elaine S. When Ladies Go A-Thieving: Middle-Class Shoplifters in the Victorian Department Store.

Chesney, Kellow. The Victorian Underworld.

Hudson, Derek. Munby, Man of Two Worlds: The Life and Diaries of Arthur J. Munby, 1828-1910.

Marcus, Steven. The Other Victorians: A Study of Sexuality and Pornography in Mid-Nineteenth Century England.

Taylor, Ina. Victorian Sisters: The Remarkable Macdonald Women and the Great Men They Inspired.


Maples, William R., and Michael Browning. Dead Men Do Tell Tales: The Strange and Fascinating Cases of a Forensic Anthropologist.

Millar, Ronald. The Piltdown Men.

Spencer, Frank. Piltdown: A Scientific Forgery.

Trinkaus, Erik, and Pat Shipman. The Neandertals: Changing the Image of Mankind.


Kahn, David. The Codebreakers: The Story of Secret Writing.


The Architecture of the Art Institute of Chicago.

The Cassell Dictionary of Superstitions.

The Huntington Art Collection.

Stone, Doris M. The Great Public Gardens of the Eastern United States.

Strauss, Robert. Trans-Siberian Rail Guide.


And the used bookstore sale is an ongoing sort of deal. Things can only get more insane from here, which is in this case a very comforting thought.

I am very pleased.

Comments

[gwynnega]

Excellent book score! The Elizabeth Bishop, of course, but also the Ted Hughes - I think Crow is far and away his best.

[coffeeandink.livejournal.com]

*bouncing* Check!

*bouncing* I have some of those books, even! I wouldn't have thought so, with the topics. I feel smug. And! I can peer at the others on your bookshelves in May.

[oracne.livejournal.com]

Oh, it's so nice to read happy news!

Trinkaus, Erik, and Pat Shipman. The Neandertals: Changing the Image of Mankind.

That's a great book.

Also, the Victorian ones sound very cool.

[libskrat]

Gah! What's closing now?

*sadness*

[pameladean]

Congratulations on the sale of the story. And how timely, that your check arrived just as you heard about this bookstore closing. I hope you didn't have any other plans for it.

Pamela

[larryhammer]

Hey, congrats.

I want those Victorian books.

---L.

Panic ...

[maureenkspeller.livejournal.com]

Which bookstore? Please, not one of my absolute favourites ...

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on the story sale! And what a lucky combination: writerly success, incoming money and things to spend it one.

[papersky.livejournal.com]

Well done!

[heresluck]

I didn't see the Marcus in your stack! I would totally have tusseled you for that. Well, okay, maybe not. But I will have to borrow at some point.

Also, didn't you grab that Eavan Boland book?

[oursin.livejournal.com]

The Other Victorians is an engaging read, but S Marcus doesn't actually know quite as much about Victorian pornography (or William Acton) as he thinks he does - see Lisa Z Sigel's wonderful Governing Pleasures for a more recent analysis including fascinating work on the actual production and circulation process. Also, he comes over as thinking he knows more about what's going on in readers/brothel clients' minds, through a highly 60s Freudian mindset, than is plausible or convincing. Nonetheless it's a foundational book for not only the study of Victsex but modern historiography on sexuality. I don't know the Taylor book on the Macdonald sisters, but Judith Flanders' A Circle of Sisters also deals with them. Munby, and Hannah Cullwick, have become a minor academic industry: numerous articles and a couple of recent monographs, I don't know if they really go much further than the original study by Hudson, except in using oh-so-voguish interpretations and critical vocab.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Ooh, thank you.
*adds books to list*

I first came across Munby in Anne McClintock's Imperial Leather and have been wanting to read the Hudson ever since.