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FANTASTIC FICTION at KGB reading series, hosts
Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel
present:
Jack O’Connell, author of The Resurrectionist, just published by Algonquin, and four previous novels set in the fictional city of Quinsigamond, including Box 9, Wireless, The Skin Palace, and Word Made Flesh
&
Ekaterina Sedia, author of The Secret History of Moscow, published by Prime Books this past November. Her next, The Alchemy of Stone, will be out this July. Her short stories have been published in a variety of magazines and anthologies.
* Mobile Libris will be selling books
Wednesday May 21st , 7pm at
KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street (just off 2nd Ave, upstairs.)
www.sensesfive.com/kgb.php
Subscribe to our mailing list:
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Readings are free
Forward to friends at your own discretion.
An addendum from Matt Kressel:
"Ellen Datlow and I were also talking about ways to attract readers outside of NY to read at the KGB Fantastic Fiction reading series. Part of the problem is that we just don’t know when authors will be in town. Outside of the NY Metro area, few people have heard of KGB, or know about its long and interesting history. I suggested that we spread the word far and wide; let people know the history of the organization and all the greats who have read there. So…
First the history: Terry Bisson and Alice K. Turner started the KGB Fantastic Fiction reading series in the late 1990s, attempting to bring together mainstream writers with writers of speculative fiction because, as Alice Turner says, “they are plowing exactly the same field.” Ellen Datlow took over for Alice K. Turner in 2000. Then Gavin J. Grant stepped in for Bisson in 2002. Matthew Kressel (me) took over for Gavin last month.
And, who has read at KGB? No less than:
Joyce Carol Oates, Lucius Shepard, Jeffrey Ford, Scott Westerfeld, Kelly Link, China Miéville, Nancy Kress, Jack McDevitt, Stewart O’Nan, James Patrick Kelly, Barry N. Marlzberg, Samuel (Chip) Delaney, Holly Black, Michael Swanwick, Kit Reed, Peter Straub, Andy Duncan, Richard Bowes, Catherynne Valente, Ellen Kushner, Jeff VanderMeer, Naomi Novik, Elizabeth Bear and a smörgåsbord of other talented authors."
So, suggestions welcome.
Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel
present:
Jack O’Connell, author of The Resurrectionist, just published by Algonquin, and four previous novels set in the fictional city of Quinsigamond, including Box 9, Wireless, The Skin Palace, and Word Made Flesh
&
Ekaterina Sedia, author of The Secret History of Moscow, published by Prime Books this past November. Her next, The Alchemy of Stone, will be out this July. Her short stories have been published in a variety of magazines and anthologies.
* Mobile Libris will be selling books
Wednesday May 21st , 7pm at
KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street (just off 2nd Ave, upstairs.)
www.sensesfive.com/kgb.php
Subscribe to our mailing list:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kgbfantasticfiction/join
Readings are free
Forward to friends at your own discretion.
An addendum from Matt Kressel:
"Ellen Datlow and I were also talking about ways to attract readers outside of NY to read at the KGB Fantastic Fiction reading series. Part of the problem is that we just don’t know when authors will be in town. Outside of the NY Metro area, few people have heard of KGB, or know about its long and interesting history. I suggested that we spread the word far and wide; let people know the history of the organization and all the greats who have read there. So…
First the history: Terry Bisson and Alice K. Turner started the KGB Fantastic Fiction reading series in the late 1990s, attempting to bring together mainstream writers with writers of speculative fiction because, as Alice Turner says, “they are plowing exactly the same field.” Ellen Datlow took over for Alice K. Turner in 2000. Then Gavin J. Grant stepped in for Bisson in 2002. Matthew Kressel (me) took over for Gavin last month.
And, who has read at KGB? No less than:
Joyce Carol Oates, Lucius Shepard, Jeffrey Ford, Scott Westerfeld, Kelly Link, China Miéville, Nancy Kress, Jack McDevitt, Stewart O’Nan, James Patrick Kelly, Barry N. Marlzberg, Samuel (Chip) Delaney, Holly Black, Michael Swanwick, Kit Reed, Peter Straub, Andy Duncan, Richard Bowes, Catherynne Valente, Ellen Kushner, Jeff VanderMeer, Naomi Novik, Elizabeth Bear and a smörgåsbord of other talented authors."
So, suggestions welcome.
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I'll run you two by Matt--we've nothing open for several months...
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No problem with the wait. I just wanted to run it by you. I already feel dirty for being the guy raising his hand and whining, "Pick me! Pick me!" ;-)
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(they also serve who only sit and listen, thankfully)
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Well, my suggestion would be not to engage in such lunatic crazytalk! KGB has a significant national reputation and more than one branded anthology. If science fiction authors haven't heard of KGB it isn't because KGB is obscure, it is because many SF authors like to squeeze shut their eyes, put their fingers in their ears and sing to themselves, "Lalalala, nothing exists but Star Trek and LocalCon, la la la laaaa-aaaah!"
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I just don't think sf/f writers outside of the east coast think of it as a place for them to read at....kind of a different problem.
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No need to put down poor KGB...
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Ultimately, though, we're trying to find out when writers are in NY so we can schedule them, a totally different beast I guess.
Still, it never hurts to raise the profile of the venue, imo.
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Oh definitely. I'll be emailing you about this.
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Rick Bowes
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Rick Bowes
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