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Arias-Misson continuedfrom previous page Floyd present. Karen Moller lived it all, but was no mere observer: she started her own little boutique on a shoestring with clothes modeled by Twiggy among others, and soon her designs and next her prints (her true passion) were being sold worldwide. Well, she soon moved on to Paris to (wo)man the barricades with her friends, and there is a great deal more to this book, such as her genius-inventor brother's flying car (the Paul Moller Skycar,just admitted to NASDAQ), which the reader is invited to as to a grand party, but no more room in this review! Suffice it to say that Technicolor Dreamin ' is far more than a chronicle of the times however entertaining, because Karen Moller's loves and disappointments and her quirky insights provide an intensely lived and peculiarly woman 's tone to it all. Arias-Misson shows his "literal objects " in galleries and museums throughout Europe. His art book The Visitor will be published in 2006 by Archivio Conz in Verona. In June of this year, the literary world lost a "writer of exceptional style and subtlety," as Anai's Nin once described her. Marianne Häuser was 95 years old and living just off Washington Square when she died. She was a spitfire right up to the end, never too shy to call it like she saw it. In her nineties she was still masturbating (and writing about it), smoking pot, and of course, writing. Her last novel. Shootout with Father (2002), was published by FC2 when she was 91. Bom in Strasbourg, Alsace, in 1910, Häuser studied at University of Berlin and Sorbonne. She also traveled the world for Swiss and French periodicals before she settled in New York City in the thirties. Hauser was a critic for Saturday Review, New Republic, New York Herald Tribune, New York Times, and other publications. She published numerous works of fiction, including Prince lshmael (1963), which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and selected by The New York Times as one of the year's outstanding books. Her other books include Monique (1927), Shadow Play in India (1937), Dark Dominion (1947), The Choir Invisible (1958), A Lesson in Music (1964), The Talking Room ( 1 976), The Memoirs ofthe Late Mr. Ashley (1986), and Me & My Mom (1993). Though Häuser never achieved the widespread recognition she deserved, she had many fans. Anai's Nin had much to say about her writing, including that Häuser "deftly weaves the strange, the unknown, the unfamiliar, the perverse, into a fabric of human fallibilities that draws drama and farce close to us." A New York Times Book Review article said, "She succeeds in fusing the fantastic and the ordinary," and The Baltimore Sun declared, "Marianne Häuser bases her humor in compassion ...her care and sensitivity never allow [her characters] to be anything but human." The Village Voice called her an "incisive, brilliant writer." Her old friend Raymond Federman said she was a "fabulous writer," and, "at 80 she was more gorgeous and seductive than those young broads [excuse the term] who walk around with their jeans exposing the crack of their asses and their boobs falling out of their blouses." Hauser's most famous novel was Prince Ishmael, about the 19th century foundling who appeared one day in Nuremberg, a young man barely able to walk or talk, and who claimed to have spent his childhood in a dark hole in the ground. Hauser was obsessed with this legendary figure, Caspar Häuser, from girlhood, though, "I was close to forty when I started and discarded various tryouts before I found my voice, or rather Caspar's.... The actual writing took well over ten years." The Talking Room, on the other hand, "was written fast and in a boozy haze during a visit to Paris." Häuser said, "I didn't read over the draft until I was back in New York. It seemed a careless piece of work, disorganized and hardly worth a rewrite." Called "a brilliant duplicity" by the Soho Weekly News when it came out in 1976, it centers on the character of a pregnant...

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