the moon's favors: John Crowley via Lapham's Quarterly

2012/05/24

John Crowley via Lapham's Quarterly

treasure trove. thank you!

LQ Podcast: John Crowley, Part 2The second half of LQ editor Aidan Flax-Clark’s conversation with novelist John Crowley. They discuss Crowley’s novel, Little, Big, on the 30th anniversary of its publication.

LQ Podcast: John Crowley, Part 1Novelist John Crowley talks with LQ editor Aidan Flax-Clark about why the future is disappearing from people’s imaginations and why it’s being replaced by the past.

The Next Futureby John Crowley

LQ Podcast: Competitive NatureEditor Aidan Flax-Clark talks with author John Crowley about Hermann Hesse’s The Glass Bead Game, and the fierce competition that arises in both sports and the arts.

Coming Soon: “Sports & Games”On newsstands June 16

In the Midst of Deathby John Crowley

Words whisper, carrying more than one might know, hypostases, rather than mere understanding. Words grow from roots, spawn families, travel and mingle, get lost, get found, and often marry the strangest bedfellows. Like our bodies, our ideas, and our culture, words evolve, handed down to us from a place beyond memory. As the warp and woof of language, words possess the magic to shape the immaterial into the solid things of psyche ~From my intro to AO's The Archives of the Heart

The Platonic tradition may be likened to an underground river that from time to time sends up a spring; wherever its waters flow, the soul is reborn, and with it the conception of intellectual form, the beautiful, and true art.~ Kathleen Raine