The
Best of
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet!
Edited by Kelly Link
& Gavin J. Grant
 So
good there had to be a book. Or something. The
Best of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet is now
available from Del Rey. It's a collection of fiction and
sometimes fancy (but usually plain) knitting patterns (a
lie), recipes (ok, there are a few drink recipes), poetry
(some great poetry), and an apology or two.
It is the most surprising anthology of the year (in many
ways: scary stories, poetry, a book from a zine, a flying
iron, so many ways).
We hope you will enjoy it and we hope to do another of
these. There was so much we wanted to put in and couldn't!
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Table of Contents
Cover by Jacob McMurray
Preface by Chunterers
Dan Chaon, Introduction
Kelly Link, Travels with the Snow Queen, LCRW
1
Scotch, An Essay Into A Drink, LCRW
2
David Findlay, Unrecognizable, LCRW
3
Ian McDowell, mehitobel was queen of the night, LCRW
4
Nalo Hopkinson, Tan Tan and Dry Bone, LCRW
4
Margaret Muirhead — An Open Letter, LCRW
4
Margaret Muirhead, I am glad, LCRW
4
Margaret Muirhead, Lady Shonagon’s Hateful Things,
LCRW 5
Karen Joy Fowler, Heartland, LCRW
6
What a Difference A Night Makes, LCRW
7
Ray Vukcevich, Pretending, LCRW
8
Shh! I can’t hear the music! LCRW
8
William Smith — The Film Column
Amy Beth Forbes, A is for Apple, LCRW
9
Shh! I said I was listening to some music! LCRW
9
Mark Rudolph, My Father’s Ghost, LCRW
9
A list of chickens (From The Fairest Fowl, Portraits of
Champion Chickens) LCRW 9
Jeffrey Ford, What’s Sure to Come LCRW
10
Roadtripping, zinemaking, cooking, cleaning, reading, and
eating music LCRW 10
Geoffrey Goodwin — Stoddy Awchaw, LCRW
10 (Listen)
A selection of teas the LCRW kitchen has acquired or been
given over the years LCRW
10
Theodora Goss, Rapid Advance of Sorrow LCRW
11
Nan Fry, The Wolf’s Story, LCRW
11
Sarah Monette — Three Letters from the Queen of Elfland,
LCRW 11 (prize winner!)
David Moles — Tacoma-Fuji, LCRW
11
David Erik Nelson — Bay, LCRW
12
Richard Butner — How to Make a Martini, LCRW
12
All About the T: Swept (not sweeped) away by the love of
irregular verbs LCRW 12
Jan Lars Jensen — Happier Days, LCRW
12
Philip Raines and Harvey Welles — The Fishie, LCRW
12
The Switch. Hope in the form of planted tomatoes LCRW
12
Gwenda Bond — Dear Aunt Gwenda
William Smith — The Film Column
David J. Schwartz — The Ichthymancer Writes His Friend
with an Account of the Yeti’s Birthday Party, LCRW
13
A By-No-Means-Complete Joan Aiken Checklist LCRW
13
Veronica Schanoes – Serpents, LCRW
13
Homeland Security, LCRW 13
David Blair — Vincent Price; For George Romero, LCRW
13 (First book coming soon!)
Douglas Lain — Music Lessons, LCRW
14
James Sallis — Two Stories, LCRW
14
Karen Russell — Help Wanted, LCRW
15
Sarah Micklem — "Eft" or "Epic",
LCRW 15
John Kessel — The Red Phone, LCRW
16
Lawrence Schimel & Sara Rojo, The Well-Dressed Wolf,
COMIC LCRW 15
Deborah Roggie — The Mushroom Duchess LCRW
17
Seana Graham — The Pirate’s True Love, LCRW
17
You Could Do This Too, LCRW
17
Sunshine Ison — Two Poems LCRW
18
[Name Withheld] Article Withdrawn
Becca De La Rosa — This Is The Train The Queen Rides
On LCRW 18
A selected list of Automobile City/Hwy Mileages LCRW
18
Gwenda Bond — Dear Aunt Gwenda
John Brown — Bright Waters LCRW
17
K.E. Duffin, Two Poems LCRW
19
D.M. Gordon, Sliding LCRW
19
Cara Spindler & David Erik Nelson, You Were Neither
. . . LCRW 19
Reviews
"Because of
its quirks, rather than in spite of them, the
collection is an immersion into a fantastic world."
— Adrienne Martini, Baltimore
City Paper
"With a major
SF imprint publishing this hefty anthology, LCRW’s
times as a low-profile fringe zine may be at an
end."
—Publishers
Weekly
"An otherworldly
Farmer’s Almanac."
—Library Journal
"Showcasing
a selection of the top new and exciting writers
working today, The Best of Lady Churchill's
Rosebud Wristlet presents a wondrous playground
for lovers of experimental and avant-garde literature.
If this is the 21st century zine, the form can
be taken off the endangered list."
—Rick Klaw (Austin
Chronicle)
"LCRW is one
of my favorite literary magazines, featuring authors
like Jeffrey Ford and Nalo Hopkinson and strange
and lovely stories you won't see being published
in the Paris Review or VQR. (And why not, I might
ask you.) The fact that one of the editors is
one of the best living short story writers doesn't
hurt."
—Jessa
Crispin
"Idiosyncratic
to the extreme, this collection of the best of
the zine Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet
highlights some of the weirdest and most interesting
writing in speculative fiction. Short stories,
poetry, essays and assorted nonfiction make this
a must for fans of bleeding-edge speculative fiction
with a distinct literary -- and bizarre -- bent."
—Romantic
Times (4.5 stars)
"A treasure
trove. . . . a quirky mix that has become the
hallmark of LCRW. Eclectic, heart-warming,
cautionary, funny, informative, and most of all
enthralling best describe this book. You will
find no better place to explore this outstanding
and unique publication: I highly recommend you
pick up a copy today."
—Sf
Revu
"Dan Chaon
provides an introduction, but really, no introduction
can quite prepare you for the celebrated mix of
insane ideas that await in the pages, ready to
pounce. Link herself delivers the first, a modern-day
revisionist fairy tale titled “Travels with
the Snow Queen.” Karen Joy Fowler’s
“Heartland,” about doomed young love
amongst fast-food employees, is a heartbreaker,
and among the book’s early highlights."
–Rod Lott (Bookgasm)
Comments from the
cheap seats: Yay!
Audio
interviews
Kelly
Link, Gavin J. Grant, Karen Joy Fowler
Seana
Graham
interviews
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Lady Churchill's
Rosebud Wristlet still goes out sometimes:
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet
is published twice a year by:
Small Beer Press
150 Pleasant St., #306
Easthampton, MA 01027
Please make checks payable to
Small Beer Press. Thank you.
LCRW should be in these
shops (or get it here):
Atomic
Books, Baltimore, MD
The Book Cellar, Chicago, IL
Borderlands Bookshop,
San Francisco, CA
Broadside
Books, Northampton, MA
Downtown News & Books, Asheville, NC
Elliott Bay, Seattle, WA
Dreamhaven,
Minneapolis, MN
Pandemonium, Cambridge, MA
Powell's, Portland, OR
Porter Square Books, Cambridge, MA
Prairie Lights,
Iowa City, IA
Quimby's, Chicago, IL
The Raconteur, Metuchen, NJ
A Room of One's Own,
Madison, WI
St. Mark's Bookshop,
NY, NY
Mark V. Ziesing,
Bookseller, CA
and also (sometimes) distributed by Last Gasp.
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