Kissing the Beehive is a fantasy

Fantasy literature

Fantasy literature is fantasy in written form. Historically speaking, literature has composed the majority of fantasy works. Since the 1950s however, a growing segment of the fantasy genre has taken the form of films, television programs, graphic novels, video games, music, painting, and other...

 novel by Jonathan Carroll

Jonathan Carroll

Jonathan Samuel Carroll is an American author primarily known for novels, which can be characterized as magic realist, slipstream or modern fantasy...

, published by Nan A. Talese/Doubleday in late December 1997. When the novel was published in Great Britain the following year, Carroll added a three-page epilogue at the request of its publisher, Victor Gollancz. It is the first novel of his Crane's View Trilogy

The Crane's View Trilogy

Crane's View was a trilogy of novels written by American author Jonathan Carroll from 1997 to 2001. The books received reviews that ranged from average to good...

. Director David Lynch

David Lynch

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 once expressed an interest in directing a film version of the novel. Kissing the Beehive was nominated for the British Fantasy Award in 1999.

Wolf Parade

The novel received renewed attention in early 2008, when Kissing the Beehive was announced as a tentative title for the second studio album by Canadian

Canada

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 indie rock band Wolf Parade

Wolf Parade

Wolf Parade is an indie rock band formed in 2003 from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The band is currently on an indefinite hiatus as of May 31, 2011.-History:...

. After the existence of Carroll's book was pointed out to the band, the band retracted the title rather than risking a copyright infringement

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 issue. Wolf Parade vocalist Spencer Krug said the band "didn't know that was the title of a book... We might have to change it, but we might not. And we'll have to make it clear that it's not [named] after his book. It's a complicated situation." The album's title was eventually announced as At Mount Zoomer

At Mount Zoomer

At Mount Zoomer, the second full length LP from the Canadian indie rock band Wolf Parade, was released on June 17, 2008.-Album title:The album is named after drummer Arlen Thompson's sound studio, Mount Zoomer, which apparently is "a B.C...

, although it does include a song entitled "Kissing the Beehive".

External links

• Kissing the Beehive
• SF Site review of Kissing the Beehive
• Kissing the Beehive at Worlds Without End