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Readings from Supernatural Noir at KGB Bar Friday July 22nd

--this is not a fantastic fiction reading--

Hosted by editor Ellen Datlow and with the following contributors

reading from their stories:

Paul G. Tremblay

Paul Tremblay is the author of the novels The Little Sleep and No Sleep Till Wonderland, and his short fiction has been collected in In the Mean Time and Compositions for the Young and Old.

Jeffrey Ford

Jeffrey Ford is the author of the novels The Physiognomy, Memoranda, The Beyond, The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque, The Girl in the Glass, and The Shadow Year. His short fiction has been published in three collections. His fiction has won The World Fantasy Award, The Nebula Award, The Edgar Allan Poe Award, and Gran Prix de l'Imaginaire.

Richard Bowes

Richard Bowes has written five novels, two short fiction collections and fifty short stories. He has won two World Fantasy Awards and the Lambda, International Horror Guild, and Million Writers Awards. His novel-in-progress is Dust Devil: My Life in Speculative Fiction





Gregory Frost

Gregory Frost latest work is the fantasy duology, Shadowbridge and Lord Tophet His earlier novels include Fitcher's Brides, a World Fantasy Award and International Horror Guild Award finalist for Best Novel; Tain, Lyrec, and Nebula-nominated sf work The Pure Cold Light. His short story collection, Attack of the Jazz Giants & Other Stories was called by Publishers Weekly "one of the best fantasy collections of the year."


John Langan

John Langan is the author of the novel House of Windows and the collection of stories Mr. Gaunt and Other Uneasy Encounters. His stories have appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and Poe: 19 New Tales Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe.
Books will be for sale by Bluestockings

Friday July 22 7-9pm

KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street (just off 2nd Ave, upstairs.)

FANTASTIC FICTION at KGB reading series, hosts

Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel

present:

Katherine Vaz has been a Fellow in Fiction at Harvard University and has published two novels, Saudade and Mariana, translated into six languages and selected by the Library of Congress as one of the Top 30 International Books of 1998. Her collection Fado & Other Stories won the Drue Heinz Literature Prize and Our Lady of the Artichokes won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize. She's a Radcliffe Fellow and recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Award and has published short fiction in numerous magazines.

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Geoff Ryman's new collection of short stories Paradise Tales has recently been published by Small Beer. A new long short story 'What We Found' is due out soon in Fantasy and Science Fiction. His stories, novels and anthologies have won 14 awards including the Arthur C Clarke Award, the John W Campbell Memorial Award, the Tiptree and the Dick awards. His novels include The Child Garden and Was both to be re-issued in new editions by Small Beer Press.

Books will be for sale by Bluestockings

Wednesday July 20, 7pm at
KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street (just off 2nd Ave, upstairs.)
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Readings are free
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Sponsored in part by Cemetery Dance Publications

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FANTASTIC FICTION at KGB reading series, hosts

Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel

present:
Sarah Langan is the three-time Bram Stoker Award winning author of the novels The Keeper and The Missing, and Audrey's Door, which was optioned by The Weinstein Company for film. Her short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming from F&SF, Lightspeed, The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, and Brave New Worlds. She's currently working on a post-apocalyptic young adult series called Kids and two adult novels: Empty Houses, and My Father's Ghost.

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Glen Hirshberg's new collection, The Janus Tree and Other Stories, will be published by Subterranean this fall. He is the author of two critically acclaimed novels, The Book of Bunk and The Snowman's Children. Both of his earlier story collections, American Morons and The Two Sams won the International Horror Guild Award. In 2008, he won a Shirley Jackson Award for his novella, "The Janus Tree." With Dennis Etchison and Peter Atkins, he co-founded the Rolling Darkness Revue, a traveling ghost story performance troupe that tours the west coast of the United States and elsewhere each October.




Wednesday June 15th, 7pm at
KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street (just off 2nd Ave, upstairs.)
www.kgbfantasticfiction.org

Books will be available for purchase thanks to Bluestockings Bookstore
Subscribe to our mailing list:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kgbfantasticfiction/
Readings are free
Forward to friends at your own discretion.

Partially supported by Cemetery Dance publications

Thursday June 16th

5pm-6 (Chardonny room)
New Blood cocktail reception


7-10pm mass autographing in Main Ballroom (I'll be selling books)


Friday

10-11am: The YA resurgence: Hofstra Room
Getting in touch with your inner teen has never been so fun. In a genre that's wide open with possibility and red‐hot in the market, find out what trends are coming, what trends are done, and the key elements to selling.

Moderator: Leah Hultenschmidt
Panelists: Ellen Datlow, JG Faherty, Jonathan Maberry, Lisa Mannetti, Lynne Hansen

5-6pm
PERSPECTIVES: THE STATE OF HORROR Adelphi Room
To call it horror, or not to call it horror? Is horror hip again? Insights into what's selling, what's hot (and not), and where they see horror going next.

Moderator: Don D'Auria
Panelists: Ellen Datlow, Rocky Wood, Norman Prentiss

Saturday

8-9 Banquet
9-? Stokers


There may be another autographing but I'm not sure.
Presumably I'll be in the bar much of the rest of the time.

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It was great fun and an interesting discussion ensued about the stories read and about vampires in general: Jefferson Market Library Teeth reading.

Friday night I watched Snow White: A Tale of Terror, which I'd been waiting to be available on netflix for a few years. It was worth the wait. Sam O'Neil as the King, Sigourney Weaver, beautiful and scary as the wicked stepmother, Monica Keena as Snow White. Just looked up Keena's filmography as I don't think I've ever seen her before. Interesting that she's really a pretty nondescript blonde in all the photos--she's much more striking as a brunette. Oh well. (and she's going to be playing Squeaky Fromme in the forthcoming Manson Girls. Anyway, it's a very effective rendition of Snow White, with the seven dwarfs transformed into seven miners (one is a dwarf).

Next up Wild Target recommended by someone (anyone out there remember who?)with Bill Nighy as a lonely top assassin (from a family of assassins) whose current assignment is Emily Blunt, a seductive schemer who is so chaotic in her daily life that her very being is an obstacle to his killing her and then he becomes attracted to it. Rupert Grint (from Harry Potter) is charming in it. In fact, everyone's charming and it's a lovely, silly enjoyable concoction. I loved it.

Tonight I watched the 3 hour 20 minute Spike Lee movie Malcolm X. Good acting, especially by Albert Hall, Al Freeman, Jr., and Delroy Lindo. Denzel Washington as Malcolm and Angela Bassett as his wife Betty were good too but not as good as the supporting actors. It's based on The Autobiography of Malcolm X written by Alex Haley and Malcolm X and a fascinating account of the Black Nationalist's life. Absorbing.

My website Ellen Datlow has been redesigned and re-launched today--come one come all. Let me know if you notice anything wonky. Let me know if there's something you'd like to see on the site that you don't.

I went to the hospital 7:45 a.m., filled out forms, paid co-pay $500 not $750, which is nice) and read until they were ready for me. Surgery scheduled for 9:45. At 10 am i was told that the operating room was still in use and would be for at least another half hour. At around 10:45 I was seen and questioned by the anesthesiologist and then my doc/surgeon came in with a student. As soon as he came in he drew with marker on my left foot and second toe to ensure surgery would be done on the correct toe (I wondered and worried about that). He drew a picture and a tic tac toe board on the leg.


Around 11am I was taken to teh operating room, where they put a blood pressure cuff, iv inserted, plastic thingie on my nose and mouth (O2? Not sure and I didn't bother asking). Put something cold on my side (so I wouldn't get electrocuted????? by what? not sure) but they took a photo of the bottom of my foot. As with when I have colonoscopies, I watched and listened to the docs at my feet and next thing I knew I was awake and thirty around noon in the post-op room. Given cold water to drink. My friend Claire showed up early --12:30 and gave me more water and I asked for something to eat. They gave me a (disgusting) deli Danish of which I ate half. Nurse came in and asked questions and told what I was supposed to do and not do. Got my boot (in my locker) and showed me hot to put it on. I'm supposed to leave it on except when I go to bed. Stay off the foot as much as possible.

Got dressed, given a cane, and walked over to the seating area where I waited to talk to Dr. Herstik again. This was especaily crucial because the nurse said instructions were "NO CHINESE FOOD"--oh noooo. I had to find out what in Chinese food I couldn't eat because of tomorrow and post-KGB dinner at Grand Szechuan. What to do? Eat rice? So anyway, he comes over, I question him and he said he was joking because he knows that's what everyone orders when they're housebound. (I'm not really, but I should stay off the foot as much as possible). Whew. That's good, because of tomorrow. Sunday I'm going to the Big Apple BBQ festival which means I won't be fetching the food, but watching the blanket.


Home now. seated on my couch, with foot/boot up on my cocktail table/desk on pillow with keyboard on my lap and trying to see my monitor-lucky it's large.

Took my first antibiotic pill and anti-inflammatory pill. So far no pain.