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Oh my God, it's an Emma Donoghue community!!!
...sorry. :) If you couldn't tell from the username, I am a very big fan of Donoghue's. I've read pretty much all of her stuff, everything I can get my hands on, so that would be Slammerkin, Hood, Kissing the Witch, Stir-Fry (if you live in the US you have to get that from an out-of-print search online; I recommend abebooks.com), Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits, We Are Michael Field, Passions Between Women, a collection of poetry she edited, and also a couple of plays that never went into print in the US at all. I think she's one of the most amazing writers I've ever encountered, and severely underrated, at least in the States. I mean, her critical reception is great, but no one seems to read her, more's the pity. (I work in the fiction department of a bookstore, and as hard as I try to promote her - it's rare that she's not on display on at least one of the display tables I manage - the only thing I can really get to sell is Slammerkin, and even that's tapered off in the last year or so.)
Last year, for one of my classes, the final paper included an interview portion - we had to interview a contemporary female playwright. I picked Donoghue - although, like I said, her plays aren't available in the US, I knew she could be contacted via email and I wanted to at least give it a shot. She was wonderful; she emailed me Word documents of her plays, and did a full interview for me. I don't know if anyone here would be interested in seeing it. It's specific to the subject matter of the class ("Women on the Verge," kind of hard to summarize quickly), but it's still pretty interesting.
One thing I did learn is that she has a new book coming out, probably early in 2004 - it's not in our computer system at work yet, but that's what she said in the email. The title is Lifemask, if I remember correctly, and it's about intersexuality in 18th-century England. (Intersexuality, for those who might not be familiar with the term - I wasn't till recently - is another term for hermaphroditism, which is a condition in which one is born with both male and female sexual/genital characteristics.) I'm really, really looking forward to it; as soon as there's a release date in the computer system at work I'll let you know. In turn, maybe you Canadians and Brits could help me out here - I don't know if it'll have an earlier release date in Canada or the UK, which sometimes happens with non-American authors, but I am determined to get a copy of this book as soon as I can; so if you hear something I don't about an upcoming release date, let me know. amazon.co.uk is a wonderful thing. :)
Yes. Yay for Emma Donoghue and other loyal fans! :)
...sorry. :) If you couldn't tell from the username, I am a very big fan of Donoghue's. I've read pretty much all of her stuff, everything I can get my hands on, so that would be Slammerkin, Hood, Kissing the Witch, Stir-Fry (if you live in the US you have to get that from an out-of-print search online; I recommend abebooks.com), Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits, We Are Michael Field, Passions Between Women, a collection of poetry she edited, and also a couple of plays that never went into print in the US at all. I think she's one of the most amazing writers I've ever encountered, and severely underrated, at least in the States. I mean, her critical reception is great, but no one seems to read her, more's the pity. (I work in the fiction department of a bookstore, and as hard as I try to promote her - it's rare that she's not on display on at least one of the display tables I manage - the only thing I can really get to sell is Slammerkin, and even that's tapered off in the last year or so.)
Last year, for one of my classes, the final paper included an interview portion - we had to interview a contemporary female playwright. I picked Donoghue - although, like I said, her plays aren't available in the US, I knew she could be contacted via email and I wanted to at least give it a shot. She was wonderful; she emailed me Word documents of her plays, and did a full interview for me. I don't know if anyone here would be interested in seeing it. It's specific to the subject matter of the class ("Women on the Verge," kind of hard to summarize quickly), but it's still pretty interesting.
One thing I did learn is that she has a new book coming out, probably early in 2004 - it's not in our computer system at work yet, but that's what she said in the email. The title is Lifemask, if I remember correctly, and it's about intersexuality in 18th-century England. (Intersexuality, for those who might not be familiar with the term - I wasn't till recently - is another term for hermaphroditism, which is a condition in which one is born with both male and female sexual/genital characteristics.) I'm really, really looking forward to it; as soon as there's a release date in the computer system at work I'll let you know. In turn, maybe you Canadians and Brits could help me out here - I don't know if it'll have an earlier release date in Canada or the UK, which sometimes happens with non-American authors, but I am determined to get a copy of this book as soon as I can; so if you hear something I don't about an upcoming release date, let me know. amazon.co.uk is a wonderful thing. :)
Yes. Yay for Emma Donoghue and other loyal fans! :)