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QUARANTINE by Norman Spinrad If it wasn’t the best of times, at least it wasn’t the worst of times, or something like that, which is the opening line of a novel called A TALE OF TWO CITIES, and it seemed like this would be only a tale of one. Back in the day before the Quarantine, Manhattan island was the heart and soul and pocketbook of New York City, to the extent that New York could have been said to have all three, Wall Street, Greenwich Village, Broadway and 42nd Street, and all that jazz. When you saw a movie or a TV show or an ad featuring New York, the Big Apple was Manhattan, not anything in what some visiting Californian must have dubbed the “Outer Boroughs,” the moral equivalent of Anaheim or Eagle Rock as far as a Hollywood wise guy was ...
NORMAN SPINRAD SINGS ONLY CHAOS IS REAL AT CIRQUE ELECTRIQUE IN PARIS
ONLY CHAOS IS REAL PERFORMANCE Not that I'm planning to ever give up my day job, but I've had a long slow minor career with music, something around a dozen songs written or co-written, something less than that creating and recording, occasional live performances too such as this one, my best I think. ONLY CHAOS IS REAL is the title song of a Heldon album, lyrics by my me, music by Richard Pinhas. Something of a success, but I didn't sing it on the record, the melody was not quite what was in my head, so I always wanted to sing it live myself before an audience and this is it. Here are the full lyrics: ONLY CHAOS IS R...
THE ABNORMAL NEW NORMAL
A TALE OF THE THREE NORMAN SPINRADS
A TALE OF THE THREE NORMAN SPINRADS “Now is the time for a futile gesture” --attributed to the IRA “Believe the foma that make you strong and brave and happy”--Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. One of us is in Paris France after four days at the Quais Du Polar festival in Lyon and surfing buoyantly at the crest of the wave. Another one of us is shortly to return to New York City and dreading the inevitable letdown. The third Norman Spinrad is writing this and attempting to cool his ire enough to try to make analytic sense of our maddeningly disjunctive existential situation. The Norman Spinrad who lived in Paris for over a de...
Norman Spinrad 1 rue de la Bucherie 75005 Paris France normanrspinrad@gmail.com GENERAL STRIKE by Norman Spinrad This Pearson Thanksgiving family gathering was the best of times and the worst of times as far as General Albert Pearson was concerned, and how could it not be? He was the first person to achieve any rank past captain for longer than the clan could remember in a family whose military tradition went back three, or arguaby four, generations of mostly sergeants and assorted grunts. The best of times because Albert had a promotion up to Lieutenant General to announce, but the worst of times because the third star went with an assignment as Eastern Central As...
Norman Spinrad 1 rue de la Bucherie 75005 Paris France normanrspinrad@gmail.com GENERAL STRIKE by Norman Spinrad This Pearson Thanksgiving family gathering was the best of times and the worst of times as far as General Albert Pearson was concerned, and how could it not be? He was the first person to achieve any rank past captain for longer than the clan could remember in a family whose military tradition went back three, or arguaby four, generations of mostly sergeants and assorted grunts. The best of times because Albert had a promotion up to Lieutenant General to announce, but the worst of times because the third star went with an assignment as Eastern Central As...
STILL CRAZY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS
HAPPY 2020 NEW YEAR from Dona &Norman What doesn't kill you makes love stronger Norman Spinrad dances with Dona Sadock at his 70th Birthday party https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kejMBMabfbY Ten years ago it was probable that I wouldn't live to make it to this party. But reports of my imminent demise proved to be exaggerated. "Don't look back, something may gaining on you." ---Satchel Paige
A CONTACT INTERVIEW WITH ME FROM 1978
This, at least to me, is an amazing interview done with me from way back in 1978 by Joseph S. Zitt, courtesy of Steve Davidson. A scanned pdf from what may have actually been a mimeographed fanzine. The only form in which I could put it here. Contact Interview with Norman Spinrad from 1978 in pdf formant! Fascinating to see how dead right I was about many things, how optimistically dead wrong about others! Strangely enough, maybe the best interview with me ever, certainly the best through 1978. And still, I think the longest. This, including the illo, is posted on the Amazing Stories website.
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