Re: RARA-AVIS: Re: Whores for Gloria

From: Robert Elkin ( rictusaporia@yahoo.com)
Date: 21 Oct 2006


Butterfly Stories is excellent; Royal Family is actually patterned after Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream, and nice & gritty--even has a detective story of sorts as a plotline.

--- Michael Robison < miker_zspider@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Adam Haynes wrote:
>
> If you dug Whores you might really dig The Rainbow
> Stories, especially The Blue Yonder. The Royal
> Family's really cool too, if you can groove with
> Burroughs rewriting Pynchon, riffing on Melville.
> Also
> The Handcuff Manual from 13 Stories, 13 Epitaphs
> kills
> me every time I reread it.
>
> ************
> Thanks for the comments, Adam. Yup. I was happy
> with
> Whores for Gloria. If I try something else by him,
> it
> will either be one of the story collections you
> mention or else The Butterfly Stories, which I
> understand is actually a novel.
>
> miker
>
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