Christopher Barzak

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Before and Afterlives Coverings

I’m so excited to see my full length collection of short stories, Before and Afterlives, coming together in advance of its March 2013 release. Below is the pre-visualisation for the cover, front, back and spine, by the book’s designer. It will of course later have a description of the contents added to the back and… Read more

November 2, 2012
Writing with Dorothea Tanning

Dorothea Tanning is the third artist I discovered in this paper-doll of a writing project I took on back in the early 2000s. Just as I discovered Leonora Carrington’s art via her fiction, and then Remedios varo via a biography of Carrington, I found Dorothea Tanning by way of her relationship with Carrington’s former lover,… Read more

August 30, 2012
My anger is that I was put on the market

After writing about Leonora Carrington today, I was perusing Youtube and came across this clip from a documentary about her life, which also includes a filmed rendition of her short story, “The Debutante,” which is both humorous and grotesque, as you’ll see if you watch the clip. It’s about ten minutes in length, and my… Read more

August 25, 2012
Writing with Leonora Carrington

After I was finished discovering Remedios Varo’s life and life work, I returned to the artist who had introduced me to her: Leonora Carrington. What had started out as a seeming fluke was becoming something slightly bigger to me. A friend of mine, Maureen McHugh, who is also one of my former writing teachers, once… Read more

August 25, 2012
Writing with Remedios Varo

I stumbled upon Remedios Varo‘s art by accident. A happy accident. While I was in grad school (the first time, back in the early 2000s), I came across a surrealistic novel by Leonora Carrington called The Hearing Trumpet. The book’s cover was amazing: So I looked into the cover artist’s background. It turned out that the… Read more

August 22, 2012
The Birthday of Birds and Birthdays

Birds and Birthdays has officially released into the wild. It’s been available directly from the publisher for the past couple of weeks, but will be appearing in other marketplaces now, like Amazon.com (where they say it’ll take 1 to 3 weeks to get the book, but that’s only because they’ve just recently placed orders for stock with the publisher… Read more

August 21, 2012