tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76936539013592758502024-03-13T09:41:04.312-07:00Susanna CrossmanSusanna Crossmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10924590767918050556noreply@blogger.comBlogger56125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693653901359275850.post-89661065593531225892016-02-17T05:15:00.000-08:002016-02-17T05:22:31.568-08:00Entre Les Lignes: Between The Lines<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.4pt;">
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<span lang="FR" style="font-family: "courier"; mso-ansi-language: FR;">Isabelle Bigot peint. Susanna Crossman écrit. Un jour,
lors d’une rencontre entre stylo et pinceau, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">between pen and brush</i>, elles se sont posées la question: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">what will we find between the lines</i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">, </b>entre les mots, dans l’espace serré
d’un souffle, hors cadre, dans le gribouillage, la marge ? Comment
naviguer dans ces moments faits de minutes rebelles qui ne respectent plus le temps
prescrits par l’horloge ? Dans un basculement entre la peinture et le
texte, lors d’allers et retours </span><span lang="FR" style="background: white; color: #252525; font-family: "courier";">synesthésiques</span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "courier"; mso-ansi-language: FR;">, elles ont trouvé le manque, les secrets, le
destin, l’amour, la folie et bien d’autres choses…</span><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "courier"; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: FR;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">Collaborative project with <b><a href="http://isabellebigot.wix.com/isabelle-bigot">Isabelle Bigot, painter</a>.</b> </span></div>
Susanna Crossmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10924590767918050556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693653901359275850.post-54102831341133242342016-02-17T05:03:00.002-08:002016-02-17T05:15:40.286-08:00Visual Verse: Stay Steady<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I published a piece on Visual Verse this month, a flash fiction crime story, Stay Steady. It's inspired by an infamous Grant Wood painting. You can read it <a href="http://visualverse.org/submissions/stay-steady/"><b>here</b></a></span>Susanna Crossmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10924590767918050556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693653901359275850.post-36416014432975673392016-01-13T05:56:00.003-08:002016-02-17T05:21:45.663-08:00Do Men Love More Than Women? Blue Fifth Review<div style="text-align: center;">
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My short story, Do Men Love More Than Women? was published in Blue Fifth Review this month. You can read it <a href="https://bluefifthreview.wordpress.com/2015/12/29/the-blue-collection-6-collaboration-winter-2015-15-25/">here.</a> Really happy to have contributed to the collaboration issue of this journal, featuring work by artists and writers. My personal favorite is the text by <a href="https://bluefifthreview.wordpress.com/">Tina Barry.</a></div>
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Susanna Crossmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10924590767918050556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693653901359275850.post-86385594488972622022015-12-21T13:42:00.003-08:002015-12-21T15:04:46.000-08:00The next one<div style="text-align: justify;">
Time ticks. Been reading, writing, working, being so busy. I've also been watching The Bridge Series Three, which was brilliant, both in plot and characters. Saga's new male policeman side-kick is a fascinating, flawed partner-in-crime: a grieving, drug-addicted, hallucinating cop. The cast-iron story holds tight, steely, gripping the viewer with a series of eerie "staged" murders. The third series is much stronger than Season Two. </div>
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In-between shorts and a film project, I am starting work on the next book in my <i>noir</i> detective series. I'm following my heroine Parisian-based Prudence across the Channel, to <i>Londres</i>, into a plot-driven adventure involving vicious blackmail, entrepreneurs, art and tea-shops. Am off to London for Christmas to do some research.... and all the merry rest...</div>
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Susanna Crossmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10924590767918050556noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693653901359275850.post-27573935994049202732015-11-30T09:33:00.005-08:002015-11-30T09:48:38.416-08:00Visual Verse: The Fire TriangleHave a flash fiction piece up on Visual Verse, The Fire Triangle.<br />
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You can read it <a href="http://visualverse.org/submissions/the-fire-triangle/">here</a>.Susanna Crossmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10924590767918050556noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693653901359275850.post-87991385521657223092015-11-26T02:06:00.000-08:002015-11-26T02:08:46.905-08:00Paris<div style="text-align: justify;">
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There are events which render us speechless. How do we react to the senseless brutality of the attacks on the 13th November in Paris? What can we say? What can we write? Where should we write? Here in France, we shift nervously, our world out of kilter. <i>Etat d'urgence.</i> State of Emergency. I collect people's comments in my mind, catch them as they fall. My daughters. The childminder. Colleagues. The café owner. Many people know someone who knows someone who was in the Bataclan or on the street. We write, we speak, we type and text in attempts to connect and hopefully unearth and rebuild some truth from the rubble, to find a shared pattern, to make peace from disaster.</div>
Susanna Crossmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10924590767918050556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693653901359275850.post-21234875815750953482015-11-25T13:07:00.003-08:002015-11-25T13:13:49.026-08:00My debut detective novel<div style="text-align: justify;">
I've been absent from this space. I've been off writing, in my house, in Catalonia, in Donostia, in the South of France and in the middle of the forest in a wooden house that's off the GPS. Since my last post, I've finished the first draft of my detective novel. It was one of those books that ran out of my fingers, shouting and kicking onto the page.<br />
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There's been much work and all of the business of burning the candle at both ends and many, many (far too many) late nights. I bless coffee, green tea and sea-swimming for keeping my boat afloat (as well as my amazing family!). </div>
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To keep my inspiration hooked on the <i>polar, </i>or<i> roman noir, - </i>as they call detective novels in French - I've been reading Chandler, J. Ellroy, Nicci French, Paretsky, Ruth Rendell and Jane Casey. I also dipped into Girls this summer, watched Macbeth and King Lear. I read This Too Shall Pass, by Milena Busquets (we share the same Literary Agency Pontas) and loved it. </div>
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In-between times, I've been contributing to various magazines and reviews, working on film projects and a collaboration with a painter, but will update on all of that later....</div>
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My short story <b><a href="http://www.litro.co.uk/2015/07/anything-could-happen-here/">Anything Could Happen Here,</a></b> is published in Litro this week.<br />
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My piece, <b><a href="http://www.litro.co.uk/2011/11/litro111-susanna-crossman-pull-of-the-moon/">The Pull of The Moon</a></b>, appeared in Litro in their French addition, alongside work by Michel Houellenbecq, a couple of years ago. Litro is, in their words, "<i>A little London Lit mag with a great world view</i>", their stories transport you.... </div>
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You can read <b><a href="http://www.litro.co.uk/2015/07/anything-could-happen-here/">Anything Could Happen Here, here.</a></b></div>
Susanna Crossmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10924590767918050556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693653901359275850.post-66607225674822184702015-06-12T04:59:00.001-07:002015-06-12T04:59:18.930-07:00Visual verse: Loom Love<div style="text-align: justify;">
I'm contributing to Visual Verse again this month, my piece is called Loom Love. I was inspired by teenage outsiders, devious little elastic bands and the image by Sigrid Calon. <a href="http://visualverse.org/submissions/loom-love/">You can read Loom Love here.</a></div>
Susanna Crossmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10924590767918050556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693653901359275850.post-27067187992809272642015-06-05T06:59:00.002-07:002015-06-05T06:59:28.699-07:00Pontas and Etonnants Voyageurs <div style="text-align: justify;">
<i>Etonnants Voyageurs</i>, one of the most important French literary festivals, is held in the coastal town of Saint Malo, where I wrote my début novel The Tide That Took The Sea. The festival is a brilliant event, bringing in authors from across the world. I've met some extraordinary writers such as Xinran, David Vann, Mathias Enard and Maylis de Kerangal. <a href="http://www.pontas-agency.com/pontas-at-the-literary-festival-etonnants-voyageurs-2015-in-saint-malo/">This year, I had a great evening with Marc de Gouvernain from the Pontas Agency. </a></div>
<br />Susanna Crossmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10924590767918050556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693653901359275850.post-66592132955235405352015-05-27T04:22:00.001-07:002015-05-27T04:32:06.126-07:00Marc Didou: Presence and Absence, Standing In A Certain Light<div style="text-align: justify;">
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International artist Marc Didou's recently-comissioned gate <i>Spectrale</i> (2015) now opens the way into this mysterious space. An anamorophic piece, the gate can appear as a simple iron-work, a delicate, almost lacy structure. But, from a certain angle, when the light is right, a female face appears, looming from the portal; a spectre of Juno to carry us across the threshold. "The Roman goddess Juno", Marc told me when we met, "Symbolises the beginning and the end", opening and closing. According to the season, the luminosity and the foliage on the trees; there is something here, or nothing.</div>
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Didou's work explores the ideas of absence and presence, the difference between <i>'voir'</i> and '<i>regarder'</i> what we look at and what we see. The <i>Spectrale </i>is part of a show, three works currently exhibited together. <i>Echo contre ciel</i>, depicts a bronze head based on a MRI scan of Didou, it is executed he says, almost as though "I am sculpting blindly"; his trace, his sculptor's touch absent in the shape. The third piece <i>Pipeline Fossile,</i> turns a petrol pipe inside out and restores it to a log-like form- recounting the origins of the petrol that once travelled inside; the secret, the invisible cyclical story of the pipeline.</div>
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Since I saw this work last week, it is the <i>Spectrale</i> gate that - literally - continues to haunt me, particularly it's acute relationship with the site, echoing the intimate act of pilgrimage, the invisible hands that arrange the flowers, strike the matches, write the notes; the spirituality that can be present or absent, or may catch us, unexpectedly, when we stand in a certain light....<br />
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For more information on <a href="http://www.marcdidou.com/">Marc Didou.</a><br />
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For more information on the exhibition organised by the association <a href="http://www.artaufildelarance.com/index.html">L'Art au Fils de Rance.</a></div>
Susanna Crossmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10924590767918050556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693653901359275850.post-35638631413016639402015-05-25T06:36:00.001-07:002015-05-27T01:11:54.805-07:00Visual Verse : We Can Be Bought And SoldI've written a piece for Visual Verse this month, We Can Be Bought And Sold, about the brain, neurosciences and people as supermarket barcodes. <a href="http://visualverse.org/submissions/we-can-be-bought-and-sold/">You can read it here</a>Susanna Crossmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10924590767918050556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693653901359275850.post-46659907187251440242015-05-12T07:36:00.000-07:002015-05-27T01:12:13.984-07:00A Chuckle. A Dip. A Crack : Visual Verse<div style="text-align: justify;">
Been trying to get back to writing for Visual Verse every month. It's a spontaneous, unpremeditated experience, there's no time for prevarication, hesitation and reflection, just a little mental churn over ideas (a tiny prayer that the vein tapped will yield some gold) and then fingers on keyboard. Write, write, write.</div>
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<a href="http://visualverse.org/submissions/a-chuckle-a-dip-a-crack/">For the April edition, I wrote this. </a></div>
Susanna Crossmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10924590767918050556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693653901359275850.post-68143137851094001912015-05-10T05:54:00.000-07:002015-05-27T01:12:41.771-07:00Marion Mitchell and collaborations<div style="text-align: justify;">
I am currently working on two international collaborative projects with visual artists, a painter and a film-maker (more news about these soon!) Visual art often inspires my writing.</div>
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Susanna Crossmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10924590767918050556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693653901359275850.post-83381668421752233592015-03-25T10:21:00.002-07:002015-03-25T10:22:39.769-07:00Pontas and The Tide That Took The Sea<div style="text-align: justify;">
Thanks to the Pontas team and Jessica Craig for this great piece in their newsletter about my novel <a href="http://www.pontas-agency.com/the-tide-that-took-the-sea-announces-susanna-crossman-as-a-wise-and-exciting-new-author/">The Tide That Took The Sea</a>.</div>
Susanna Crossmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10924590767918050556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693653901359275850.post-88200141109035724452015-03-25T10:16:00.003-07:002015-03-25T14:50:20.236-07:00Schwitters, Vorticism and found language <br />
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Once upon a time, in another life, I wrote an MA dissertation on Vorticism, which is held in the elegant <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/title/blast-an-analysis-of-the-two-editions-of-the-vorticist-review/oclc/501438472&referer=brief_results">Tate Modern library</a>, where I carried out part of my research. I have always been drawn like a bee to honey by the avant-garde artistic movements from the <i>début du siècle</i>. Dadaism holds a special, undone, ripped up and shuffled place in my heart. This week, I was flipping through the pages of Coutts-Smith book about this anarchic and nihilistic movement which took place between 1916 and 1923. Reading, I came across the German artist Kurt Schwitters, renowned for his opening up of art, its materials, subject matters, ideas of aesthetic. In this <i>assemblage</i> vision the debris of contemporary society: the broken, the abandoned, the useless and the over-looked, are re-presented, transformed and transcended. </div>
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<i>L'Hôpital Le Dessous des Cartes</i>, hit French bookshops last week. I co-wrote this French <i>roman, </i>a semi-fictional, semi-academic dramatic exploration of the dilemmas facing contemporary French hospitals. </div>
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So happy to be back contributing Visual Verse. You can read my piece <a href="http://visualverse.org/submissions/feast-tongues/"><b>A Feast of Tongues</b> here. </a>Aunt Dorothea is writing once again about grief, donkeys and swimming pools! I was inspired by the Raymond Carveresque photo by Dominic Goodman and a recent venture into Marina Warner's <b>Signs and Wonders</b>. I came across her years ago when she gave the Reith Lectures <b>Managing Monsters</b>. <a href="http://visualverse.org/submissions/feast-tongues/">In <b>A Feast of Tongues</b></a>, I was thinking about Aesop, fables and all that they can be.</div>
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In other news (in between sick children, non-writing work and the shenanigans of everyday life) I am back writing my detective books. So will dip into Raymond Chandler, San Antonio, Fred Vargas and maybe some George Perec (the latter for something unpredictable and wild). </div>
Susanna Crossmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10924590767918050556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693653901359275850.post-74723471425271961992015-02-16T22:56:00.000-08:002015-03-04T03:53:53.578-08:00Vargas: The Chalk Circle Man<div style="text-align: justify;">
I am re-reading The Chalk Circle Man, a Fred Vargas detective novel, featuring the enigmatic police chief Adamsberg, renown for his Zen methods for solving crimes. The Chalk Circle Man - like all Vargas books - is dotted with eccentric characters, an oceanographic alcoholic scientist ( who stalks people in her spare time), an love-sick beret-wearing old lady with crocodile teeth and a beautiful, but very mean blind man. To be read.</div>
Susanna Crossmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10924590767918050556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693653901359275850.post-28411445195419345112015-02-16T22:49:00.003-08:002015-02-16T22:52:01.011-08:00Editing<div style="text-align: justify;">
In the past couple of months, I have fallen out of this blog, writing consuming my days and nights, at the back of my mind, a constant, parallel tick that - as I work, wash and drive my car - is trying to rewrite that paragraph, solve the plot twist, hack away at what must go. I have been in two places at once, here and there, in the world of work, family, friends and then inside this cave, right deep down, where something entirely different is happening. In the cave, time runs with multiple clocks and logic is utterly unreasonable; it's more about feeling your way in the dark, slicing through words with a delicate sword.</div>
Susanna Crossmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10924590767918050556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693653901359275850.post-67915900231611577762014-12-05T01:13:00.000-08:002014-12-05T01:13:17.929-08:00Pontas I am thrilled to say that the brilliant Jessica Craig at the very excellent Pontas Agency in Barcelona is going to represent me for my novel and detective books. I am very happy.<br />
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You can read about them <a href="http://www.pontas-agency.com/">here</a>.Susanna Crossmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10924590767918050556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693653901359275850.post-71330837966360910972014-11-22T03:39:00.005-08:002014-11-22T03:39:51.897-08:00Visual Verse: The Library of Tears<div style="text-align: justify;">
This has been a month of many exciting things, writing things. Visual Verse comes as a sketch, a promise, a diversion; it is a sudden glance shared with a passing stranger, a connection in the crowd.</div>
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To read my latest piece, The Library of Tears, <a href="http://visualverse.org/submissions/library-tears/">click just here</a>.</div>
Susanna Crossmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10924590767918050556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693653901359275850.post-85259466323425441742014-10-18T09:16:00.002-07:002014-10-18T09:16:37.252-07:00Visual Verse : Tectonic Love Busy, busy, busy with so many things, but, couldn't resist the latest prompt from Visual Verse. In their own words,<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: adobe-caslon-pro, serif; line-height: 19px;">Visual Verse is a celebration. Of the drama of seeing and the desire to express it. Of the things that inspire us, move us, and that we find hardest to articulate"</span>.</span><br />
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You can read the latest in Aunt Dorothea's epistolary adventures<a href="http://visualverse.org/submissions/tectonic-love/"> here.</a>Susanna Crossmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10924590767918050556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693653901359275850.post-64266785258688155622014-09-28T01:42:00.000-07:002014-09-28T01:42:14.898-07:00Like Something You Wanted: The Irish Literary ReviewI have a short story, Like Something You Wanted, published in the recent edition of the excellent online Irish Literary Review. You can read it <u><a href="http://irishliteraryreview.com/4/post/2014/09/like-something-you-wanted-by-susanna-crossman.html">here</a>.</u>Susanna Crossmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10924590767918050556noreply@blogger.com0