I made the quote page.
Oh and also - my name will be on the cover, apparently (you can see it in that link above). Many people are just listed as "and others". But there it is. I haven't received my copy yet. I'm all wacked out. I'm going to LA this week, so I'll miss my copy when it arrives. It'll be in my mailbox when I return.
I guess I'm in tears. Kinda proud, and happy, I guess.
The Irish Letters issue of The Sewanee Review. Coming any moment now to a bookstore near you.
Posted by sheila"Kinda" proud??? Oh, no, I think not, Sheila. Bursting should be more like it.
You go - I'm so proud (not kinda proud, but completely so) of you and incredibly happy FOR you.
GOOD.FOR.YOU!
Posted by: Jayne at October 9, 2006 12:31 PMFireworks and orchestral swellings!
Posted by: Brendan at October 9, 2006 12:55 PMWOW, Sheila that is fantastic!! I will defiantely keep my copy in my classroom and also share with the Senior English department.
CONGRATS!!!!
Posted by: chuck in maine at October 9, 2006 12:58 PMWOW, I'm in awe here!! Congratulations, Sheila, this is fantastic!!!!!!!!!! What an achievement, woman!! :-D
I am very proud of you and very happy for you... You go, girl!!!
Posted by: Ceci at October 9, 2006 1:13 PMOut-standing.
Posted by: Ken at October 9, 2006 2:11 PMOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG!!!!!!
I'm veery happy for you, and I got goosebumps when I saw your name listed!!
Way to go, red!!! Wheeeeee!!!!
-W
Posted by: Wutzizname at October 9, 2006 2:12 PMawesome!
Posted by: sarahk at October 9, 2006 2:20 PMCongratulations, Sheila.
Posted by: PatrickP at October 9, 2006 2:31 PMi don't know anyone who deserves it more. congratulations, sheila!
Posted by: amelie / rae at October 9, 2006 3:25 PMWhee!
VERY cool!
Posted by: miker at October 9, 2006 5:05 PMBRAVO!!!!!!! Whoo-hoooooooo!!!!!
Posted by: Kate at October 9, 2006 5:24 PMI think I hear the buttons popping from all the way down here on the Gulf Coast!
What a great accomplishment!
And TOTALLY OT - (and I know you posted on this before) - CBGB's closing door after 33 years.
Reason I bring that up is cause JUST YESTERDAY an old friend stopped by with his girlfriend and she was telling of an impromptu trip they just recently took to New York, primarily to visit CBGB's before it closed...she said it was a kind of pilgrimage for her. So it was really cool to see the pictures she took of the place.
Posted by: Sharon Ferguson at October 9, 2006 6:19 PMWow! Wow Whee!
Way to Go, Sheila! This is such excellent news!
I can't wait to read the piece. And you're quoted on the cover! And in such amazing company -- William Trevor, for starters...ohmygod!
As they say in the Aran Islands: Mazel (OI!) Tov!
Safe travels to L.A.
Posted by: Jon at October 9, 2006 6:32 PMIt is a truly beautiful thing.
Posted by: tracey at October 9, 2006 6:41 PMThe crazy old coot hippie lite on the mountain says, "Righteous cool!"
Posted by: steve on the mountian at October 9, 2006 8:13 PMThank you everybody!! I've been out all day, just came back - to find all this love here ... thank you!!
And Jon, I know - to be on the same page as William Trevor, I mean ... can I please just linger in my pride for a moment, or is that a sin???
Posted by: red at October 9, 2006 8:17 PMSheil- member when I called you and left that CRAZY message on your answering machine, howling with laughter, when you sent me your Irish essays? I literally could not open my eyes, you made me laugh that hard. Just the image of all you little O'Malley children (especially Brendan and his freakish knowledge of baseball stats- I believe that is what made me lose control) and the way you captured ALL of it. Baby Siobhan and Jean/Graine. (I always secretly wished for a middle name that my father would INSIST on calling me. I pretended a little, actually... but no one ever caught on.) God, I love your writing!!!!! AND NOW THE REST OF THE WORLD WILL READ IT!!!
Posted by: just1beth at October 9, 2006 8:56 PMNo sinning as far as I'm concerned. Hold your head up high, peacock, and shake those feathers. You are (thank you, Ms. Blume) "Otherwise Known as..." (rhymes, sort of, with pilaf at eight...)
And, besides, pride only goeth before the fall ("Departed" much, e.g. dirty little scene with Nicholson and priests at diner?)...
...but all I see and feel here is ascent, steep and true. So excited to read your piece.
Posted by: Jon at October 9, 2006 8:59 PMATSWIMTWOBIRDS!!!!
Posted by: just1beth at October 9, 2006 8:59 PMBeth - ha - yes, I remember you leaving this CRAZY message about me calling Brendan "austistic" - you could not even SPEAK and most of the message was dead silence, as you roared with silent hysterical laughter into my answering machine. so great!!
And you, my dear, are also the one who showed me that there was another level to what I wrote - one I hadn't even intended. That the "two birds" were also me and my father. sniff, sniff. Hadn't even THOUGHT of that. I loved your insight.
Posted by: red at October 9, 2006 9:02 PM"The Sewanee Review, founded in 1892, is the oldest continuously published literary journal in the United States. It incorporates original fiction and poetry, as well as essays, reviews, and literary criticism. Authors and poets whose work has been published in the journal include Cormac McCarthy, Flannery O'Connor Robert Penn Warren, Dylan Thomas, Howard Nemerov, and Sheila O'Malley." Not to brag on you or anything.
Posted by: Seamus Heaney at October 9, 2006 11:20 PMHey, this is something to brag about! I'm sorry I'm late with my congratulations, as I've been incommunicado all day - this is great news. Let us know when to go to our local newstands and bookstores to DEMAND the latest O'Malley!
Posted by: Nightfly at October 10, 2006 12:19 AMSooo cool. Congrats Sheila, I can't wait to see/read it. Jean will NEED to have that for her bookcase.
Posted by: PatrickW at October 11, 2006 2:05 PMWhat a beautiful quote. Sheila - congrats - this is unbelievable to look at!
Posted by: jean at October 11, 2006 8:11 PM*coming out of lurker mode*
Woo Hoo!! Congrats!
Just a few days ago, I added Sewanee to the list of journals that I _have_ to get an online sub to. All the more reason now to get it!
Posted by: swapspace at October 17, 2006 7:28 AM