Born to Be Posthumous The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey The definitive biography of Edward Gorey the eccentric master of macabre nonsense From The Gashlycrumb Tinies to The Doubtful Guest Edward Gorey s wickedly funny and deliciously sinist
The definitive biography of Edward Gorey, the eccentric master of macabre nonsense.From The Gashlycrumb Tinies to The Doubtful Guest, Edward Gorey s wickedly funny and deliciously sinister little books have influenced our culture in innumerable ways, from the works of Tim Burton and Neil Gaiman to Lemony Snicket Some even call him the Grandfather of Goth.But who was this The definitive biography of Edward Gorey, the eccentric master of macabre nonsense.From The Gashlycrumb Tinies to The Doubtful Guest, Edward Gorey s wickedly funny and deliciously sinister little books have influenced our culture in innumerable ways, from the works of Tim Burton and Neil Gaiman to Lemony Snicket Some even call him the Grandfather of Goth.But who was this man, who lived with over twenty thousand books and six cats, who roomed with Frank O Hara at Harvard, and was known in the late 1940s, no less to traipse around in full length fur coats, clanking bracelets, and an Edwardian beard An eccentric, a gregarious recluse, an enigmatic auteur of whimsically morbid masterpieces, yes but who was the real Edward Gorey behind the Oscar Wildean pose He published over a hundred books and illustrated works by Samuel Beckett, T.S Eliot, Edward Lear, John Updike, Charles Dickens, Hilaire Belloc, Muriel Spark, Bram Stoker, Gilbert Sullivan, and others At the same time, he was a deeply complicated and conflicted individual, a man whose art reflected his obsessions with the disquieting and the darkly hilarious.Based on newly uncovered correspondence and interviews with personalities as diverse as John Ashbery, Donald Hall, Lemony Snicket, Neil Gaiman, and Anna Sui, BORN TO BE POSTHUMOUS draws back the curtain on the eccentric genius and mysterious life of Edward Gorey Get
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From Dery is a cultural critic, essayist, and book author who has taught at NYU and Yale He coined the term Afrofuturism, popularized the concept of culture jamming, and has published widely, in the academic as well as the popular press, on American mythologies and pathologies His books include Flame Wars 1994 , a seminal anthology of writings on digital From Dery is a cultural critic, essayist, and book author who has taught at NYU and Yale He coined the term Afrofuturism, popularized the concept of culture jamming, and has published widely, in the academic as well as the popular press, on American mythologies and pathologies His books include Flame Wars 1994 , a seminal anthology of writings on digital culture Escape Velocity Cyberculture at the End of the Century 1996 , which has been translated into eight languages The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium American Culture on the Brink 1999 , a study of cultural chaos in millennial America and the essay collection, I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts Drive by Essays on American Dread, American Dreams 2012 His biography of Edward Gorey, Born to Be Posthumous The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey, will be published by Little, Brown on November 6.Mark has taught in the Yale School of Art and the Department of Journalism at NYU and has been a Chancellor s Distinguished Fellow at UC Irvine and a Visiting Scholar at the American Academy in Rome Mark s latest book is the essay collection, I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts Drive By Essays on American Dread, American Dreams University of Minnesota Press April 2012 Bruce Sterling wrote the introduction Boing Boing s advance praise calls it an intellectual journey through our darkest desires and strangest inclinations Luc Sante says it s a trustworthy and entertaining analysis of the lunatic fringe, which constitutes an ever larger portion of the discourse in America today Mark is at work on a biography of the artist, writer, and legendary eccentric Edward Gorey for Little, Brown