»Frederiksberg-forfatter pryder forsiden og bidrager til en international antologi om det mytiske røde hår. Da den frederiksbergske forfatter, Line-Maria Lång, var i Paris i 2010, sendte hun et fotografi til sin oversætter, Thomas E. Kennedy. Et billede, hendes veninde, fotograf Lotte Mia Wewer, havde taget af hende en lun dag ved Versailles' slotssø uden for Paris. Kennedy blev så begejstret for fotografiet, at han videresendte det til Walter Cummins, der er hans kompagnon i det nystartede forlag Serving House Books. Walter Cummins blev også betaget og foreslog Kennedy at invitere tyve digtere og prosaister til at skrive om billedet. Resultatet er bogen, The Girl With Red Hair, som består af tolv noveller, et personligt essay og syv digte, alle inspireret af fotografiet.«
Frederiksberg Bladet
The Girl with the Red Hair
When the young red-haired Danish writer, Line-Maria Lång, was in Paris in the spring of 2010, she sent her translator a photograph that a friend had taken on the lake of the castle in Versaille.
The translator – Thomas E. Kennedy – was so taken by the photograph that he forwarded it to Walter Cummins, his partner in the newly-established publishing venture, Serving House Books. Cummins was also taken by the photograph and wrote back to Kennedy with a proposal that they commission twenty prose writers and poets to write something inspired by it.
The invitations went out to twenty selected writers in various places in Europe (Cambridge, Paris, Copenhagen) and in the U.S. (New Jersey, California, Wyoming, South Carolina, Boston, Utah, Kansas City); the result is the book to be published in February 2011: The Girl With Red Hair.
Asked why he was so moved by the photograph, taken by Lotte Mia Wewer, which appears on the cover of the book, as to launch the anthology, Walter Cummins replied that he was inspired by centuries of red hair lore, but especially the languorous photo of Line-Maria Lång who, in the Preface of the book, is referred to as its “Muse.” He notes further that poets and writers have always been taken by red hair – from Sylvia Plath (“Out of the ash / I rise with my red hair…”) to the Gaelic bards (“Green eyes, red hair, long legs, devil inside her…”) to Mark Twain, who claimed that while the rest of us were descended from apes, red-heads were descended from cats!
The Girl With Red Hair was launched in the United States on February 3rd, 2011, at the annual conference of the American Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP).