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Welcome to the Official Jonathan Carroll Web Site! Read the Site Introduction by Neil Gaiman
Simon's House of Lipstick from Glass Soup read at Between Books in Wilmington, DE.
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A classic interview unearthed Listen to the 1991 KCRW interview |
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Poland- Ghost In Love As of October 2007 The Ghost In Love is available in Poland. |
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Italian Release News |
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A Ghost In Love in Conjunctions 25th Anniversary issue. The first chapter of the next novel, A Ghost In Love is out in Conjunctions 25th Anniversary issue. More information here. |
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Carroll Wins Pushcart Prize. We are pleased to announce that Home on the Rain, from Conjunctions: 44, An Anatomy of Roads, has won a Pushcart Prize and has been selected for inclusion in the Pushcart Prize XXXI: Best of the Small Presses anthology, set for publication in cloth and trade paperback this coming November. |
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CarrollBlog 5.10
I like graffiti that says things like I LOVE LOLA or LOLA AND TIMMY FOREVER! Since no one has ever written letters three feet tall that say I LOVE JONNY, I wonder what it was like for Lola or whoever to come across that love shout for the first time. Were they thrilled? Embarrassed? Thrilled and embarrassed? And what happens when Lola and Timmy break up but their graffiti stays up on that wall till time takes its toll, etcetera. How do they feel seeing those words after their love is long gone? No matter what, I envy them. Thomas Lux has a wonderful poem about a giant graffiti he sees every day on an autobahn overpass while driving to work. The only problem is one of the words is misspelled so it reads something like LOLA AND TIMMY FOUREVER. The thing Lux admires is how some idiot would take his life in his hands and dangle upside down over a wall thirty feet in the air to misspell his love for his girl for all the world to see. The best graffiti like this I've seen so far: I LOVE MEGAN AND THE DOVES OF HER SOUL Written of the wall of a small shop in a small village in north - western Poland.
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MK comments on this one:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=st2mxQusLvA
CarrollBlog 5.9
For the most part wisdom comes in chips rather than blocks. You have to be willing to gather them constantly, and from sources you never imagined to be probable. No one chip gives you the answer for everything. No one chip stays in the same place throughout your entire life. The secret is to keep adding voices, adding ideas, and moving things around as you put together your life. If you're lucky, putting together your life is a process that will last through every single day you're alive." Ann Patchett Javier Marais George Gurdjieff
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Everything can be told. It's just a matter of starting, one word follows another.
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I have very good leather to sell to those who want to make themselves shoes.
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http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/50
CarrollBlog 5.8
At the end of their relationship in one of those last, invariably futile conversations that accomplish nothing other than making things sadder and more bitter, she said "Maybe we just loved each other too much." He fired back "We didn't love too much; we were obsessed with each other and obsession always ends up stinking."
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Where do "we" end and others' perception of us begins?
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Recently someone in their fifties mentioned they're getting married. That reminded me of a conversation I had years ago with a very smart young woman. She believed people should only get married when they're either in their 20's or after 50. You marry early to build a life together. When you marry after 50 you do it for the companionship.
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http://www.lensculture.com/schels.html
CarrollBlog 5.7
After a motorcycle had just roared by us at a really deafening pitch, he turned to me and said, "The louder the bike, the smaller the dick." Ray Ban, the sunglasses maker, has a new campaign in which all of their posters have pictures of cool looking people wearing Ray Bans and the slogan is "DON'T HIDE." When I saw it for the first time I literally stopped and said out loud "Don't Hide? But that's the whole *point* of sunglasses." You wear them to hide from the world. Or to pretend you're an important person instead of just little old you. But maybe that's the aim of the campaign-- to stop people with its contradiction; like an ad for swim wear that says "Don't get wet!"
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The gym is silent. It's early in the morning and there are only four people in there-- all of us over forty. Eventually a young woman about 20 comes in. The first thing she does is to turn on all the television sets and surf through the channels until she reaches MTV on all of them. Then she puts on earphones and adjusts her MP3 player. Climbing up on a stationary bicycle, she opens the magazine she holds in her other hand and looks at it, then the TV, then the mag...
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CarrollBlog 5.6
"In 1948 psychologist B.R. Forer gave a personality test to his students. Regardless of how they answered, Forer gave everyone the exact same personality profile afterward. He then asked the students to evaluate the accuracy of the profile. A score of 5 meant that the recipient felt the profile was excellent. Neil Strauss James Randi, the renowned magician (and arch-enemy of Uri Geller) did the same thing with an Astrology test: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Dp2Zqk8vHw There's something to said about human nature and our desire to be deceived by good news. http://youtube.com/watch?v=EOrG1r3S6ZA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo
The class average turned out to be 4.26. So all these unique, individual human beings were told the exact same thing, yet they felt the words fit them almost entirely accurately. The conclusion: People tend to accept vague and general personality descriptions as being completely relevant to themselves. Furthermore, people usually accept
claims about themselves in proportion to their desire that the claims be accurate."
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KT writes in about this:
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Tom Waits at his best:
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I'm sure many of you have already seen this, but for those who haven't:
qquestion: OK, so the Sultan's assistant fires a rope horizontally from the helicopter into the balcony door on the sixth floor of a high rise, and then Harry and friends are on the ground rescuing people. How does that work? Up the rope? Down the rope? And what of Big Top? Love your books. -Johnny D
You have to remember I wrote that book about fourteen (no, more!) years ago so never having re-read it, I don't remember how I worked that rope bit out. It always tickles me when people write in who have just read a book asking what did you mean on page 45 where so and so says... Once a manuscript is finished, it takes about a year for the publisher to release the book. I finished writing OUTSIDE THE DOG MUSEUM around 1993. I can't even remember what I had for lunch three days ago but now you're asking me about rope logistics fourteen years ago? You are a demanding reader, Johnny D ;)
Many more answers from Jonathan Carroll in the Collaborate section (updated 11/28)
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Italian News & The Italian ROLLING STONE is publishing a Carroll short story in their December issue |
The Wooden Sea listed in Guardian Unlimited's List of 30 Books That Need To Be Rediscovered. (4.06)
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A Child Across The Sky the new Italian version- May 2006 cover art by Dave McKean (click for closeup of cover) |
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Oko Dnia (Eye Of The Day) the blog book to be published by Rebis in March 2006 (Polish only). |
Read this excellent synopsis of White Apples and Glass Soup in The Philosopher's Stone (3.06)
Read the SF Site Featured Review of Glass Soup (2.06)
Read the ChiZine Interview Series with Jonathan (1.06)
Read (or download word doc) the exclusive new story, "Home On The Rain "
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