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Books For All Ages

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Books For All Ages

This passionate dialogue between two kindred spirits ranges across the fashion and literary art world, This rich delving into the past will be nostalgic for those who lived through those years and inspirational and fascinating for those who didn’t! The American Book review below will also be in the Brooklin Rail and the London Book review

Chasing the Stars and Hoping to Shag the Moon

One first remarks the speed, the staccato give and take of this odd dialogue about books and friends— characters, hundreds it seems, from fiction and from real life, equally intimate (“I learned about life from books”, says Karen), anecdotes of the famous and the obscure (“Known Knowns and Unknown Knowns” as Cyclops calls them, comfortable among the latter), rub elbows with them. Karen Moller, with her famous designer past and many friends from the contemporary French art world, such as the eccentric and visionary Filliou and that ultimate avant-gardiste the flying Yves Klein to the British pop world of the Beatles and the larger-than-cartoon, declamatory American poets, Ferlinghetti and Allen Ginsberg, ranges over social and feminist and literary history and fascinating stories within stories of friends and great novels with irrepressible zest and the freshest of prose; practical, clear-eyed, with remarkable self-awareness and minimal encroachment of the ego, she is the Mrs. Pepys of this stroll through the cultural landscape. While Cyclops, often lost in obscure personal histories, indistinguishably autobiographical and fictitious, explores the murky back-streets of provincial English towns in a growling jive that owes as much to Dickens and Joyce as to the Goon Show in search of a mythical mother who may have been the widow of the legendary WWII hero Captain Crabbe

Technicolor Dreamin': In Her Own Fashion

One first remarks the speed, the staccato give and take of this odd dialogue about books and friends— characters, hundreds it seems, from fiction and from real life, equally intimate (“I learned about life from books”, says Karen), anecdotes of the famous and the obscure (“Known Knowns and Unknown Knowns” as Cyclops calls them, comfortable among the latter), rub elbows with them. Karen Moller, with her famous designer past and many friends from the contemporary French art world, such as the eccentric and visionary Filliou and that ultimate avant-gardiste the flying Yves Klein to the British pop world of the Beatles and the larger-than-cartoon, declamatory American poets, Ferlinghetti and Allen Ginsberg, ranges over social and feminist and literary history and fascinating stories within stories of friends and great novels with irrepressible zest and the freshest of prose; practical, clear-eyed, with remarkable self-awareness and minimal encroachment of the ego, she is the Mrs. Pepys of this stroll through the cultural landscape. While Cyclops, often lost in obscure personal histories, indistinguishably autobiographical and fictitious, explores the murky back-streets of provincial English towns in a growling jive that owes as much to Dickens and Joyce as to the Goon Show in search of a mythical mother who may have been the widow of the legendary WWII hero Captain Crabbe

Technicolor Dreamin': In Her Own Fashion

One first remarks the speed, the staccato give and take of this odd dialogue about books and friends— characters, hundreds it seems, from fiction and from real life, equally intimate (“I learned about life from books”, says Karen), anecdotes of the famous and the obscure (“Known Knowns and Unknown Knowns” as Cyclops calls them, comfortable among the latter), rub elbows with them. Karen Moller, with her famous designer past and many friends from the contemporary French art world, such as the eccentric and visionary Filliou and that ultimate avant-gardiste the flying Yves Klein to the British pop world of the Beatles and the larger-than-cartoon, declamatory American poets, Ferlinghetti and Allen Ginsberg, ranges over social and feminist and literary history and fascinating stories within stories of friends and great novels with irrepressible zest and the freshest of prose; practical, clear-eyed, with remarkable self-awareness and minimal encroachment of the ego, she is the Mrs. Pepys of this stroll through the cultural landscape. While Cyclops, often lost in obscure personal histories, indistinguishably autobiographical and fictitious, explores the murky back-streets of provincial English towns in a growling jive that owes as much to Dickens and Joyce as to the Goon Show in search of a mythical mother who may have been the widow of the legendary WWII hero Captain Crabbe

Karen Moller grew up in a small town in the mountains of western Canada. She took off at age nineteen, hitchhiking with Jack Kerouac’s On the Road under her arm, after graduating from art school in Calgary and went on to dazzling success in the renaissance of poetry, pop music, fashion and the arts in swinging London. The freshness of voice and delighted wonder that permeate that illuminating, often hilarious, personal anecdotes is both irresistible and touching.

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Shag
The Moon

by karen moller

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Karen Moller said she would buy the flowers herself.

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She stiffened a little on the kerb, waiting for Durtnall's van to pass. A charming woman, Scrope Purvis thought her (knowing her as one does know people who live next door to one in Westminster); a touch of the bird about her, of the jay, blue-green, light, vivacious, though she was over fifty, and grown very white since her illness. There she perched, never seeing him, waiting to cross, very upright.

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"I love walking in London," said Karen Moller "Really it's better than walking in the country."