books
Looking for Edward Gorey, the companion catalog to the Univ of Hawai'i 2010 exhibition is now available. Color photographs, 163 illustrations on 164 pages. $35.oo at the University of Hawai‘i Art Gallery. Read our review!
Reviews for Floating Worlds are in from Atlantic Monthly and The Wall Street Journal, the latter by Karen Wilkin. Publishers Weekly places FW in their Top 10 Literary Essays & Criticism shortlist for Fall 2011. Read our review of Floating Worlds
Florence Heide, author of the Treehorn series, has passed away. She was 92. Read an obituary from Publisher's Weekly.
exhibitions
Elegant Enigmas in West Palm Beach
The Norton Museum of Art will host the acclaimed art show June 8 to Sept 2, 2012. Good to see this excellent collection back on the road!
Boston Athenæum
Show of the Century
This installment ended its run June 4, broke attendance records and cast its spell over The Globe. The Boston Athenæum writes Elegant Enigmas was the best attended of any exhibition mounted by the Athenæum in the past 25 years. Over 18,000 people visited the Gorey exhibition during its four month run, which "may be a record for the institution, as least since the 19th-century."
Worthy of every collection, Elegant Enigmas, the exhibition catalog by Karen Wilkin, Pomegranate and the Brandywine Museum, is downloadable in eBook (Mac or PC) format, or in hardcover, 124 pages, 175+ color and b&w illustrations, with exhibit checklist.
ISBN 978-0-764948046. More at Pomegranate or Amazon.
(Read our impressions of the original Brandywine Chadds Ford show).
auction watch
The Results Are In
Download Bloomsbury's
Edward Gorey Sale catalog,
then take a look at the prices realized from the
Dec 9, 2010 auction:
A Success!
Both the Toledano auction at the PBA and the Eastland collection at Swann Galleries's 19th & 20th Century Literature auction proved successful, with record prices for Amphigorey and Sopping Thursday lots, as well as a few surprises. Take a gander at their respective sales results and be amazed!
Music to the Ears
NPR's All Things Considered co-hosts Linda Wertheimer and Noah Adams lovingly recite The Gashlycrumb Tinies from NPR's Edward Gorey obituary page on April 17,2000. A nice interview with Andreas Brown included.
PBS & WGBH presents Mystery! The official PBS Mystery! site, with a 1996 Gorey interview by Ron Miller. Derek Lamb writes about Gorey's collaboration for the legendary Mystery! animations. And finally a tribute by Animation World magazine to Derek Lamb [1936-2005] which mentions the animation collaboration.
Hamanaka-San, Arigato
Housing the largest Gorey collection in Japan, the Wonderful World of Edward Gorey website is the brainchild of Toshinobu Hamanaka, is also a book by the same name. Edited by Mr. Hamanaka, published by Kawade Shobo in 2002, it's a beautiful volume. In Japanese.
Read more on Edward Gorey in Japan in our East Wing
What the Doubtful Guest does on stage is everybodys business in Hoipolloi & Theatre Royal Plymouth's production, which ran March 13 thru April 12, 2008. From London, the company toured Liverpool, Ipswitch, then Newcastle. The show was met with enthusiasm from both The Times and The Guardian -- "...a piece of visual theatre that captures all the Victorian pastiche, fantastical imagination and ominous air of Gorey's original." - Lyn Gardner, The Guardian.
Hoipolloi Artistic Director Shôn Dale-Jones discovered 'Doubtful' while touring the US in 2005. "I went into a children’s bookstore to look for one of [Edward Lear's] titles, but couldn’t find one. The clerk asked if he was the guy Edward Gorey did some illustrations for. She handed me a collection of Gorey’s books – including Lear’s The Jumblies. Before I knew it I had looked through the whole book and was asking the shop attendant for more Edward Gorey...by the time I left the USA later that month I’d bought every title I could find in every bookstore I walked into. On the plane journey home I kept returning to The Doubtful Guest and got hooked on the world of this illustrated story."
Visit Hoipolloi's blog for some snapshots of this memorable production.
See how Siobhan Magnus, is always an EGH star! Paint it Black Siobhan!
The Edward Gorey House
Gorey's residence in Yarmouth Port is now a museum. It's mission: "The Edward Gorey House celebrates and preserves the life and works of Edward Gorey...[and] honors Gorey's passion and concern for animals, raising awareness about local and national animal welfare issues." Gorey's favorite yellow sweater, raccoon greatcoat and tennies are on view as well.
Antiquariat Bücherwelten provides unparalled access to translated editions, brought to you by Jonas Plöger. Located in Germany. In English and German.
Minneapolis's own Irwin Terry hosts the Goreyana blog, diligently posting interesting Gorey details, with excellent photos. Talk amongst yourselves!
Gorey Serif Font
TrueType font based on the distinctive hand lettering from many of Gorey's books. From Damian Hess, it's quite a delicious, no-cost treat.
OgdredWeary by nonDairy Fonts. Complete your collection of Edward Gorey fonts with another no-cost TrueType or MacFont font, inspired by Gorey's The Curious Sofa.
Funeral Consumers Alliance
"First you're born, you live a little, and then you die..." To that end, the FCA is here to help, with Gorey-emblazoned mugs [The Gashlycrumb Tinies or The Osbick Bird], tee shirts, and end-of-life planning kit [booklet with magnet set]. Embrace the inevitable.
Edward Gorey Bibliography
A comprehensive bibliography of Gorey's works.
Photographs and text by Kevin McDermott, sheds new light on Mr. Gorey through his residence (a.k.a. 'The Elephant House') in Yarmouth Port. Fifteen etchings and lithos are reproduced. Introduction by John Updike. Published by Pomegranate.
Visit Kevin McDermott online for more imagery and information from Elephant House, now in it's 2nd printing.
Goreyography talks to Kevin about the making of Elephant House. Read our review of Elephant House.
A voyeuristic view of Gorey's studio as it stood in Yarmouth Port before it was tidied up after his death in 2000. Viewer plugin required and may take some time to load. Worth the wait.
The Hapless Antiquarian
directed by Anthony Penta, pays "homage to Edward Gorey."
Winner of Best Short Film Under 10-min at the 2001 East Lansing Film Festival. "Graceful and wildly imaginative..." -- Christopher Potter, Ann Arbor News. 16mm, B&W, 06:30, 2001. Available on DVD.
The Unfortunate Gift
Film written and directed by Mark G.E. A dark, strangely beautiful work. An homage to Ogdred Weary. "The 50 eight-second tableaux of The Unfortunate Gift have a daguerreotype quality of Wisconsin Death Trip." -- Duane Dudek, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinal. DVD, B&W, 08:00, 1998.
Documentary Enters Post
Five years in the shooting, film maker Christopher Seufert of Mooncusser Productions has produced award-winning docs such as Gillnetting and Fishtown. See a preview of what's in store.
Doubtful Guest film 'In Development', Slated for 2011
"A charming mischievous creature shows up at a family-owned bed & breakfast, and turns the funny family's life upside down." If all goes well, we should see the results of the joint collaboration of Jim Hensen Co, Walden Media, and Fox 2000 sometime in 2011.
Brad Peyton will direct the live-action feature with a script written by Matthew Huffman. Our dear little Doubtful Guest will be created by the Henson Creature Shop. IMDBPro.com shows The Doubtful Guest is 'in development'.