Ellen Datlow's Blog, page 73
October 19, 2009
My World Fantasy Convention schedule
Friday 12:00 PM The Best of the Year Thus Far
The panelists will discuss the outstanding shorter works (i.e. novellas and short stories) published thus far this year. Ellen Datlow, David Hartwell, John Klima, Jonathan Strahan (and perhaps one other person)
Friday 8-11pm mass autographing
Saturday 8:45-10pm A sampling from Lovecraft Unbound with in the Crystal Room. This item will not be in the program as it's "unofficial"
Brian Evenson
Michael Shea
Anna Tambour
Marc Laidlaw
Laird Barron
Nick Mama...
The panelists will discuss the outstanding shorter works (i.e. novellas and short stories) published thus far this year. Ellen Datlow, David Hartwell, John Klima, Jonathan Strahan (and perhaps one other person)
Friday 8-11pm mass autographing
Saturday 8:45-10pm A sampling from Lovecraft Unbound with in the Crystal Room. This item will not be in the program as it's "unofficial"
Brian Evenson
Michael Shea
Anna Tambour
Marc Laidlaw
Laird Barron
Nick Mama...
Basic human rights
A court case brought against Jackson Memorial Hospital in Florida for denying a dying woman's same sex partner and their children access to her in the hospital has found for the hospital.
Nicola Griffith urges us all to do something so that this outrage won't happen again, in her post Trembling with Rage
Nicola Griffith urges us all to do something so that this outrage won't happen again, in her post Trembling with Rage
Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries
Today, although the day was cloudy, cold, and drizzly, I and some friends took the Metro North to Beacon, NY (one friend met us by car, coming from a different direction) to check out the art gallery at the Dia art foundation.
WOW! The is the best use of architecture to show off the art inside that I've ever seen. The space is a huge, almost 300,000 square foot former printing factory. In that space is art by Richard Serra--I've never seen much of his, except for the oppressive wall he built ...
WOW! The is the best use of architecture to show off the art inside that I've ever seen. The space is a huge, almost 300,000 square foot former printing factory. In that space is art by Richard Serra--I've never seen much of his, except for the oppressive wall he built ...
October 17, 2009
Launch of Lovecraft Unbound in NYC October 27th!
-> The New York Review of Science Fiction Readings
and
The SoHo Gallery for Digital Art <--
present
Elizabeth Bear, Richard Bowes, Michael Cisco, Caitlín R. Kiernan
reading from
Lovecraft Unbound
edited by Ellen Datlow
Jim Freund. Producer & Executive Curator
John Ordover, Proprietor
Tuesday, October 27th -- Doors open 6:30 PM
$5 suggested donation
The SoHo Gallery for Digital Art
(address and links below)
To celebrate Samhain (or Hallowe'en if you prefer) we will feature an...
and
The SoHo Gallery for Digital Art <--
present
Elizabeth Bear, Richard Bowes, Michael Cisco, Caitlín R. Kiernan
reading from
Lovecraft Unbound
edited by Ellen Datlow
Jim Freund. Producer & Executive Curator
John Ordover, Proprietor
Tuesday, October 27th -- Doors open 6:30 PM
$5 suggested donation
The SoHo Gallery for Digital Art
(address and links below)
To celebrate Samhain (or Hallowe'en if you prefer) we will feature an...
October 16, 2009
Yesterday in Baltimore
Yes, I was there twice in one week. Rainy and cold all day/night.
My sister and brother in law picked me up in the morning and we drove down to the Visionary Arts Museum, which is three times the size it was when I was last there (we only had time to visit the original building and rush through that). Then they dropped me off at the Paper Moon Diner (they continued to drive to Florida) where I met up with John Langan and his son Nick, and Greg Frost and his friend Warren. The decor is fantast...
My sister and brother in law picked me up in the morning and we drove down to the Visionary Arts Museum, which is three times the size it was when I was last there (we only had time to visit the original building and rush through that). Then they dropped me off at the Paper Moon Diner (they continued to drive to Florida) where I met up with John Langan and his son Nick, and Greg Frost and his friend Warren. The decor is fantast...
Dead Reckonings review of Lovecraft Unbound
A rave by Martin Andersson in forthcoming Dead Reckonings--I'm quoting a bit from it:
"....a sterling Lovecraftian anthology that surely ranks with the best in the field. Its connection with the Cthulhu Mythos is only tangential, even though one familiar name or another crops up, which makes for a book that focuses on those more intangible qualities of Lovecraft's work, such as the fascination of infinite cosmos and dread of the unknown and the sense of wrongness that permeate his best stories...
"....a sterling Lovecraftian anthology that surely ranks with the best in the field. Its connection with the Cthulhu Mythos is only tangential, even though one familiar name or another crops up, which makes for a book that focuses on those more intangible qualities of Lovecraft's work, such as the fascination of infinite cosmos and dread of the unknown and the sense of wrongness that permeate his best stories...
October 14, 2009
October 13, 2009
Reminder of Poe reading/signing in Baltimore this Thursday
Reading and signing of POE in the Poe Room (2nd floor) of the
Central Library 400 Cathedral St., Baltimore, MD, October 15, 6:30 PM, with Gregory Frost and John Langan
Central Library 400 Cathedral St., Baltimore, MD, October 15, 6:30 PM, with Gregory Frost and John Langan
October 12, 2009
The Funeral (that should have been) for Edgar Allan Poe
It was a glorious day for a funeral/celebration and not at all gloomy as one might expect for the great Poe. There were two services, the first taking 2 1/2 hours, the second slightly shorter. Fifteen people people spoke including Poe's former fiance Sarah Helen Whitman, Poe's friend George Lippard, the man who ruined Poe's reputation for many years, The Rev. Rufus Griswold (who was hissed from the podium after his inappropriate and false remarks about the dead man), Charles Baudelaire, Walt ...
