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Library Journal My multi-page article for Library Journal, titled "Best Databases 2011: Librarians Decide Which Databases Make the Grade", is now online! "Digital advances begun at the outset of the 21st century have significantly eased the burden on researchers, who no longer have to travel great distances to see topic-relevant source material. Dissertations, journals, documents, and photos that have been preserved digitally are available internationally. Moreover, with the right access codes, such images and data are available for viewing at any time. Certainly, electronic developments are valuable also to librarians, who now rely much less on interlibrary loan and can serve a much wider variety of patron requests immediately."
Autobiography A story about my past, "Italy, 1990", appears at Fictionaut. "She bets they never imagined, those men from Germany, from Austria, from northern Italy, that the girl they leaned over and spoke to kindly (maybe even a little lewdly), the girl whose diminutive shoulders they draped their blonde-red-black haired arm around, would become a woman who knows their secrets, who writes stories about them when they were in their late prime."
Sculpture Magazine My review of Bill Vorn's "Hysterical Machines," recently on view at Pittsburgh's Wood Street Galleries, will appear in the December 2011 issue of Sculpture Magazine. "“Red” (2005) seems similarly threatening. There, a series of pendulous rubber tubes, with pneumatically-driven joints, sway to and fro like tentacles as viewers move through a space suffused by a disorienting scarlet light. The tentacles, which all end in a grouping of four eye-like halogens, appear to act and react autonomously."
The vault of his cranium had decreased dramatically and his maxilla and mandible now protruded, which explained the nature of his pain: his whole craniofacial structure had changed. -- The Corpus Lupi Experiment
“Please, Doctor,” her mother had said the day before, “why can she not eat? She’s not eating. She’s all skin and bone.” And when he opened Beverly’s mouth, a dark empty cavern filled only with the fetid odor of necrosis, he pushed the chin closed and said: “Because she is dying.” -- The Color of Silence is Radium Green
"I did not bark. I knew this would not scare them...the rats that stood before me now were lean and squint-eyed, looking sideways at me and sizing me up in terms of shank, brisket, flank, tip, and sirloin." -- Revolutionaries: A Fable
Not Enough Going on Here?Try here! american-soma.blogspot.com. "The last photo, below, is a picture of my desk at the Neue Pinakothek. I used to be able to crawl onto my desk and out the window, where there were beds of lavender. Really, this was part of the building's roof, but it was fully accessible, if you could fit through that metal and glass portal to the outer world." -- from "Some pictures of my days in Munich (Part 1)" * * * *
"While Boone did not project the kind of immortality political leaders sometimes did, he still wished for it in the metaphorical sense. He yearned to be recorded in historical annals as more than just an oil man. While money and purpose were important to him, historical meaning was, by far, the superior reward. He wanted to be one of the great forces in history."
"The landscape and the local culture have a definite impact on my world view, and this mood trickles into my stories. I used to work at a newspaper after I got married, and I would hear terrible things on the police scanner. One of the stories in American Soma is called “Horizontal Plane” and that is based on one of the conversations that I heard between policemen talking to each other on the scanner." * * * *
All writing copyright 2007-2011 Savannah Schroll Guz
