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Talking Back: Epistolary Fantasies
| Author: | L. Timmel Duchamp |
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Aqueduct Press, 2006 |
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| Book Type: | Non-Fiction |
| Genre: | Science-Fiction / Fantasy |
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Synopsis
Talking Back showcases the epistolary fantasies of eighteen writers, among them Carol Emshwiller, Leslie What, Eileen Gunn, and Rosaleen Love. Invited to "talk back," the authors penned love letters, fans letters, angry letters, thoughtful letters, letters to dead people, letters to fictional characters, letters to corporations. Carol Emshwiller writes to her beloved Ledoyt; Eileen Gunn, provoked by a New York Times review of Lady Windermere's Fan, addresses Oscar Wilde; Heather Lindsley tenders friendly advice to Citibank; and Nisi Shawl explains to Jack Kerouac that the joke is on both of them. "Lovely Madame," writes James Trimarco to Charles Dickens's infamous Madame Defarge, "you whose eyes flash as your knitting needles click-clack at the table, I spit on the death your father has written for you and burn those pages from my book..."
These are letters that will never be sent, intimate and personal, fantasies the authors have agreed to share with their readers.
Table of Contents:
- from Victoria Elisabeth Garcia to Mrs. Sarah Winchester
- from Eileen Gunn to Oscar Wilde
- from Wendy Walker to Guy Davenport
- from Anne Sheldon to a Scribe
- from Ada Milenkovic Brown to Sofia
- from Rosaleen Love to a Dead Man, John Dalton Hooker, Written on the Occasion of a Visit to Kew Gardens, London, July 2003
- from Nisi Shawl to Jack Kerouac
- from Heather Lindsley to Citibank, R.S.V.P.
- from C.G. Furst to Chandler
- from Leslie What to Timmi Duchamp
- from James Trimarco to Madame Defarge
- from Cat Rambo to William S. Burroughs
- from Carol Emshwiller to Abiel/Beal Ledoyt
- from E.C. Myers to Superman
- from Nancy Jane Moore to Lula Mae Cravens
- from Rachel Swirsky to A Fellow Ugly Girl
- from L. Timmel Duchamp to Alice Sheldon
- from Sarah Coats to the People of the World
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