Memento Gorey: The Last Interviews with Edward Gorey w/Christopher Seufert

This book offers a new window on the often-mysterious Gorey and captures many facets of his personality as he and the author worked together
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East End Books Ptown presents: Memento Gorey: The Last Interviews with Edward Gorey w/Christopher Seufert 9/6 at 5pm

This book offers a new window on the often-mysterious Gorey and captures many facets of his personality as he and the author worked together to produce the only Gorey documentary film that Gorey approved.
Going beyond the many books about his work, these images and conversations capture new insights about Gorey himself: the mind behind the renowned American icon of theater, illustration, writing, and bemusingly cryptic observations.
Features:

• 17 previously unpublished interviews 5 with Gorey himself, including the last expressions of Gorey's singular mind, and 12 with a wide variety of artists who worked with and were inspired by him, including Danny Elfman, Daniel Handler, Julie Harris, Carol Verburg, and Terry Gilliam.
• Over 250 photos, previously unpublished, documenting Gorey's daily life and his home as he lived in it.

Christopher Seufert is the producer of the only documentary film to be shot with and agreed to by writer, illustrator, and artist Edward Gorey before his death in 2000. He has produced award-winning films with journalist Walter Cronkite, musician Suzanne Vega, filmmaker Albert Maysles, and others. A professional photographer, Seufert is the author of six books about Cape Cod. www.EdwardGoreyFilm.com

"Seufert paints a vibrant and lively picture of that man that I knew, not only through his previously unpublished interviews with Ted at his favorite places but also with the gloriously intimate photographs of Edward's house and personal belongings, not just immediately after his death, but as he lived it in his daily life. Indeed, the collective portrait of Ted is as he lived it himself at his unguarded best and with Seufert's book I get to relive Ted again as I knew him, witty, intelligent, and endlessly creative."--Peter F. Neumeyer, author of Floating Worlds: The Letters of Edward Gorey and coauthor with Gorey of Donald Has a Difficulty