Eva Talmadge and Justin Taylor "The Word Made Flesh: Literary Tattoos from Bookworms Worldwide"
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Everyone can name his or her favorite quotation from an author. But not everyone has the nerve to wear it forever on their skin. The Word Made Flesh: Literary Tattoos from Bookworms Worldwide introduces us to the amazing, emerging subculture of literary tattoos, in a full-color guide that includes quotations from favorite writers, beloved lines of verse, literary portraits, and illustrations. Encompassing writers from Shakespeare to Rimbaud to Bukowski to Shel Silverstein, The Word Made Flesh is part photo book, part voyeur's guide, part cultural artifact, and part literary anthology written on skin.
About the book:
Complete with 100 full-color photographs of literary tattoos the world over, The Word Made Flesh is accompanied by an introduction and interstitial commentary from the editors, authors Justin Taylor and Eva Talmadge, as well as textual excerpts from some of the famous, tattoo-inspiring works.
Each photograph is accompanied by a statement from the tattoo-bearer, ranging from a few words—where the tattoo was done and when—to a paragraph or two about the reason for the inking, the personal significance of the work of literature chosen, or how its meaning has evolved. "You'll find all kinds of testimony about the inspirations behind the tattoos: favorite books of childhood; commemorations of triumphant (or tragic), moments in lives; affirmations of friendship; drunken whims that might have (but didn't!), become cause for regret..." say Taylor and Talmadge.
About the authors:
Eva Talmadge is an agent with the Emma Sweeney Agency and a graduate of the University of Florida and the fiction MFA program at CUNY Hunter College. Her fiction has appeared in the New York Tyrant, the Agriculture Reader, the New Orleans Review, and elsewhere. Her short story "The Cranes" was cited as Notable Nonrequired Reading of 2008 in Best American Nonrequired Reading 2009 (Dave Eggers, ed.), and in June of 2009 she was named the first recipient of the Rona Jaffee Foundation Fellowship to fund her stay at the MacDowell Colony.
Justin Taylor has been published in The Believer, The Nation, The New York Tyrant, Flaunt, the Brooklyn Rail, n+1, Slate, NPR, Time Out New York, and elsewhere. He edited the acclaimed short fiction anthology, The Apocalypse Reader, and guest-edited an issue of McSweeney's, for whom he produced "Come Back, Donald Barthelme". He writes for HTMLGIANT and is the author of the story collection Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever and the forthcoming debut novel The Gospel of Anarchy (Harper Perennial; February 2011).
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October 20, 2010 from 19:00 to 21:00