a few last words on books
Jul. 4th, 2008 10:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ellenkushner• The elegant and affordable paperback edition of Delia Sherman's Changeling will be released on July 17th!
• We've sold Finnish rights to Thomas the Rhymer (to Vaskikirjat). I'm so happy. The translator, Johanna Vainikainen-Uusitalo, I met at the Dutch Worldcon shortly after the book came out, and she says she's been dreaming of translating it ever since - we've already had some great discussions about the (non-)intersection of British & Finnish mythic material . . . and she's a friend of author Johanna Sinisalo, whose wonderful Troll won the Tiptree. Is there a trip to Finland in our future? One can only dream. . . .
• A friend of a friend sent word of her new book, Surprised by God: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Religion (Beacon Press, August); author & rabbi Danya Ruttenberg wrote me: It's part-memoir, part cultural criticism, about the personal and political implications of taking on a religious discipline. It's the story of my own post-dotcom, punk rock Third Wave move from atheism into traditional (feminist) Judaism... --but it's also about how taking on a spiritual practice has always been difficult, and how, in some ways, contemporary American culture makes this process harder than it's ever been. Sounds like she'd be a great interview - I'm sorry I'm not making any new Sound & Spirit shows this year for her to be on! She is, after all, also the editor of Yentl's Revenge: the Next Wave of Jewish Feminism....
• We've sold Finnish rights to Thomas the Rhymer (to Vaskikirjat). I'm so happy. The translator, Johanna Vainikainen-Uusitalo, I met at the Dutch Worldcon shortly after the book came out, and she says she's been dreaming of translating it ever since - we've already had some great discussions about the (non-)intersection of British & Finnish mythic material . . . and she's a friend of author Johanna Sinisalo, whose wonderful Troll won the Tiptree. Is there a trip to Finland in our future? One can only dream. . . .
• A friend of a friend sent word of her new book, Surprised by God: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Religion (Beacon Press, August); author & rabbi Danya Ruttenberg wrote me: It's part-memoir, part cultural criticism, about the personal and political implications of taking on a religious discipline. It's the story of my own post-dotcom, punk rock Third Wave move from atheism into traditional (feminist) Judaism... --but it's also about how taking on a spiritual practice has always been difficult, and how, in some ways, contemporary American culture makes this process harder than it's ever been. Sounds like she'd be a great interview - I'm sorry I'm not making any new Sound & Spirit shows this year for her to be on! She is, after all, also the editor of Yentl's Revenge: the Next Wave of Jewish Feminism....