![]() Inevitably, any reader of Ascending Peculiarity gradually puts together a chart of the artist's favorite things: Those choices suggest something of Gorey's magpie-like range of intellectual passions. ![]() I was disappointed that she reprinted virtually none of Gorey's own occasional writing, excepting his hearty endorsement of three favorite books (for a survey conducted by ): Raymond Queneau's Exercises in Style, Sylvia Waugh's Mennyms children's novels and Robert Musil's The Man Without Qualities. Karen Wilkins, who co-authored (with Clifford Ross) The World of Edward Gorey (1996), has gathered some 20 or so interviews with the inimitable writer/artist, added a few photographs and drawings, and identified in end-notes some of the authors, dancers, artists and novels mentioned in the texts. This is a marvelously entertaining volume for any admirer of Edward Gorey (1925-1999), but it's not really much of a book. Interviews Selected and Edited by Karen Wilkins ![]()
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