Thursday, June 21, 2007

Katherine Taylor Rules

Katherine Taylor has taken a full-page ad in the Fall issue for her wonderful first novel, Rules for Saying Goodbye (Farrar, Straus and Giroux).

Chapter Nine, "Traveling with Mother," appeared in ZYZZYVA Fall 2001, in somewhat different form; in fact, it was considered her "first nonfiction in print." It was also included in our anthology AutoBioDiversity (Heyday Books, 2005). The copyright page of Rules does not acknowledge either appearance.

To add insult to injury, the jacket flap lists six litmags in which her work has appeared, but not ZYZZYVA.

Taylor will read at Cody's next Tuesday, 26 June. I've been asked by Opium magazine, which is sponsoring the reading, to ask her ten questions, before the audience gets to ask her five. My outrage should have subsided by then.

PS: ZYZZYVA Fall '01 set in motion another book just out: Practicing: A Musician's Return to Music (Knopf) by classical guitarist Glenn Kurtz. In his acknowledgements, he mentions that he is "especially grateful" for my help; he volunteered as an editorial assistant in '92-'93.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I enjoyed your questions and Ms. Taylor's answers at Cody's. If you would like to see a brief write up of the event, check out The BayAreaIntellect.com

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