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"With their latest offering, Payseur & Schmidt have outdone their past accomplishments in the realm of book-as-art-object. ’Ķ The result is a life story wittily and bracingly told: brave, forthright, illuminating, passionate, rueful, and celebratory. If you melded Alison
Bechdel's Fun Home (2006) with Aldiss's The
Twinkling of an Eye (1998) and Delany's The Motion of Light in Water (1988), you might come up with a similar tale of a wild girl with literary sensibilities."
"Two great things that go great together: Griffith is a phenomenal and
P&S put together ridiculously beautiful editions of books and chapbooks.
And Now We Are Going to Have a Party is not just a book, but a multimedia,
multisensual memoir experience. I just kept taking more and more things out
of the box, like a bottomless treasure chest. Safe to say, it is one of the
most beautiful book-related things I've ever seen."
"Rivaling McSweeney's for the nerve and zeal of its graphic design, Payseur & Schmidt
have created their most ambitious and satisfying book-as-artifact yet.
Composed of loose leaf photos, booklets, books, posters, and even including
scratch-and-sniff cards and CDs, this memoir of a writer's formative years
crackles with intelligence, wit, and pathos. Griffith's essays about sexuality
and her writing are often funny, and always insightful. This box of a book
is another shining example of twenty-first-century book-making, and a delight
to own." "Like the best of [Nicola Griffith's] fiction,
it rips your heart out and alternately fills it up in all the right places.
That it's not fiction makes the story all the more powerful." "Somewhere out there a pissed off seventeen-year-old
is looking for a reason to believe in the future; give her Griffith's
book and she will know she's not alone, she will know that what happens
next might just might make this whole growing up nightmare worth it." "The Seattle novelist ("Always") takes an unusual approach to autobiography
with this "Party," which comes in a box containing five chapbook-memoirs
of her English girlhood and wild youth, a CD of songs performed by Griffith
(both solo and with her 1980s band Janes Plane), three scratch-and-sniff
cards, an autographed baby picture, replicas of her childhood drawings,
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