(^this was one of the pictures that was published with the article)
I had a great new review (article, really) for Girl on a Stick in Just Out magazine today:
“Able to move with ease between mediums, Kathleen Bryson is one of those multifarious talents that Portland attracts like moths to a benevolent flame. She is binational, bisexual and bilingual, and she is or has been an author, editor, actor, director, painter, riot grrrl, model, anthropologist, linguist and abundant storehouse of arcane information. (A few days after I interviewed her for this article, she joined my little crew for the filming of a short movie at the Washougal River; during the course of the day she cursed in Finnish, discussed the finer points of Neanderthal cranial formation with my male lead, and took off her high heels to scuffle barefoot down a steep rocky slope.)...
Girl on a Stick is subversive in that it's a love story in which the couple's ultimate break-up is the happy ending. Equally intriguing are the novel's stylistic innovations… There is extensive, semi-Joycean wordplay, and the text is enlivened with drawings, diagrams and crosswords that drive home the interconnectedness of its themes and the fact, alternately depressing and liberating, that our childhood remains with us forever.”
(article by Tony LeTigre - here in its entirety)
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Kathleen - I've just finished reading the copy you so generously entrusted to David and me. I devoured it in huge gulps, and will go back and savour it more slowly.
It was an incredible book. For all the magical realism/hallucinatory passages it was the most real book about entanglement in a lousy relationship, and the depth to which it is possible to sink before being able to disengage, that I've read.
Brava, K! As soon as it's officially released I will laud your words to the skies on Amazon & beyond.
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