{"id":69188,"date":"2020-07-23T10:59:51","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T14:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/?p=69188"},"modified":"2020-12-20T15:59:54","modified_gmt":"2020-12-20T20:59:54","slug":"paula-regossy-by-lynn-crawford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/2020\/07\/23\/paula-regossy-by-lynn-crawford\/","title":{"rendered":"Paula Regossy by Lynn Crawford"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Trinosophes is a public performance and art exhibition space in Detroit on Gratiot Ave. They’ve just taken a leap into publishing with their first book: Paula Regossy<\/em>, a detective novel by local author Lynn Crawford.<\/p>\n

Paula Regossy<\/em> began with a painting, Pussy Galore<\/a><\/em> by artist Peter Williams, which Crawford first saw on view at the gallery Paul Kotula Projects in Ferndale, Michigan, nearly a decade ago.<\/p>\n

“A friend at the opening snapped his fingers and said, \u201cLynn, give me one word, describe this show,\u201d and I blurted out: \u201cChill.\u201d It is a word I rarely use but it fits: Williams as Chill; Captain Chill, ready to take off on a space ship or in an amphicar.” — Lynn Crawford from a review of a Peter Williams exhibition in 2014, which would inspire her novel Paula Regossy<\/em>, read more at: Infinite Mile <\/a><\/p>\n

Because the painting\u2019s title referenced a female character from a James Bond film, Crawford was inspired to write a novel with a heroine named Paula Regossy, which is an anagram of Pussy Galore. She did not stop there. Each chapter in this book is Crawford\u2019s personal (but faithful) response to artwork by various Detroit-based artists and creative spaces.<\/p>\n

She conversed with, ruminated on and scrutinized the art and\/or the venue before she constructed the narratives. Paula Regossy would not exist without those people, works and places. In addition to Peter Williams other chapters were inspired by artworks created by Okayama Dabls, Nancy Mitchnik, Chido Johnson, Carol Harris, and Jim Chatelain among others. A page in the back of the book lists the Detroit artists and writers — and their artworks which found their way into the book.<\/p>\n

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Signed copies<\/strong> of Paula Regossy<\/em> are available at Book Beat. To order, call us at (248) 968-1190, email: BookBeatOrders@gmail.com<\/a> or visit our backroom gallery to order Paula Regossy Online<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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“Lynn Crawford has created a shrewd and accomplished novel in Paula Regossy. Crawford, like her characters, is not fearful, but bold and courageous in molding a novel that is unafraid to push the envelope of both our own expectations of genre and narrative, and how it should be deployed to expand a writer\u2019s creative range.”
\n–Eric Maroney, from The Colorado Review<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cLynn Crawford understands better than any writer I know how profound, poignant, elegant meanings surface through our routines, our everyday lives. She is a true detective.\u201d
\n\u2014Evelyn Hampton, author of Famous Children and Famished Adults: Stories<\/p>\n

Paula Regossy<\/em> doesn’t feel at all like fantasy or academic speculation. Although in it one might feel echoes of writers from J.G.Ballard to Samuel Beckett, Paula Regossy <\/em>is very much Lynn Crawford\u2019s own marvelous creation. And just as I am in awe of the world at large, I am in awe of Paula Regossy<\/em>.
\n\u2014Jose Padua, author of A Short History of Monsters<\/p>\n