Name: CAROL VERBURG at Books Inc. in the Marina
Start: 2024-10-24T19:00:00-07:00
End: 2024-10-24T20:00:00-07:00
Location: Books Inc.

CAROL VERBURG at Books Inc. in the Marina

Cape Cod Author and Edward Gorey compatriot Carol Verburg shares her thrilling new book upon the hundred year anniversary of Gorey’s birth
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Cape Cod Author and Edward Gorey compatriot Carol Verburg shares her thrilling new book upon the hundred year anniversary of Gorey’s birth and the 25th anniversary of his death at Books Inc. in the Marina! This amazing look at Gorey’s work in the theatre shines a light on the creatively wondrous work the two created together.

Edward Gorey (1925-2000) was a prodigious and original artist who published more than one hundred beloved works, including The Gashlycrumb Tinies, The Doubtful Guest, and Amphigorey, and illustrations that appeared regularly in such publications as The New Yorker and The New York Times and books by authors ranging from Charles Dickens and T.S. Eliot to John Updike and Virginia Woolf, among many others. His animated credits for the PBS Mystery! series introduced him to millions of television viewers. In addition to his intricate pen-and-ink drawings and darkly humorous storybooks, Gorey also nurtured a lifelong passion for the performing arts. This volume is the first to showcase his extensive theatrical work, including his transition from designing major productions to crafting original community theater pieces on Cape Cod.
Written by his friend and collaborator Carol Verburg, this handsome hardcover edition is filled with annotated scripts, behind-the-scenes anecdotes, and over two hundred images, including archival photos and previously unpublished artwork. It unveils Gorey at work and play, drawing back the curtain on his enigmatic genius, which continues to inspire artists and collectors today.

Carol Verburg wrote her first novella at age eleven and won her first playwriting prize at thirteen. After staging her first rock musical in college, she worked as an academic editor, freelance author, boat builder, and the chief producer of her friend Edward Gorey’s theatrical entertainments on Cape Cod. Their long collaboration is chronicled in The Theatrical Adventures of Edward Gorey: Rare Drawings, Scripts, and Stories. It also inspired her play Spin, or Twilight of the Bohemians, and her neo-Golden Age Edgar Rowdey Cape Cod mystery novels Croaked, Zapped, and Shafted.