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…— my AWP Chicago events this week (two readings, one panel, a meet-up*, one screening**) :
- Wednesday the 11th, 6:00, Chiasmus Press Reading and Party , Barbara’s Bookstore, 1218 South Halsted Street; no clue what I’ll read, but likely something from Dugatti
- Thursday the 12th, 7:00, FC2 Reading and Reception, Curtiss Hall, 10th floor of the Fine Arts Building, 410 S. Michigan Avenue; who knows what I’ll read there
- Friday, 12:00 – 1:15, Lake
http://www.awpwriter.org/conference/2009offsite.php (W & Th nights)
http://www.awpwriter.org/conference/2009schedFri.php (12:00 – 1:15 Friday)
Twin Wells…
Can’t imagine what chance I really have here, against who-all I’m up against, but “Captain’s Lament” (from Clarkesworld) is shortlisted for a Black Quill over at Darkscribe. Register and vote? Not necessarily for me, but, y’know, for the best story. As for links for others :
–Paul Tremblay’s “The Blog at the End of the World,” which of course already won the contest over at Chizine
–Stephen Dedman&…
New story up over there, “These Amber Waves of Grain”. Good company. I wrote it the same sitting almost with that “‘Tis the Season,” in Passages North. And with one I always forget to try to get published, about an archery accident / nipplebotomy (or, not -botomy, yeah, but I don’t know the right-sounding suffix for ‘amputation,’ though I suspect it’s ‘excision’-related, and it’s not only ab…
Just two more things:
— got a piece (interview, not fiction) up at CU’s InPrint
— got a story coming out in Colored Chalk 5
anyway, see some of you in Portland.…
Links, that is:
— in the mail today, the French version of Native Storiers. Five stories from Bleed Into Me in it.
— the flyer for Wednesday in Portland. Which I really thought I’d linked already, but the world’s a confusing place . . .
Anyway, hopefully HEROES and TERMINATOR are both new tonight. Just bought another bike too. Becuase, yeah, that’s just what I need. Like this hasn’t already been a weekend of painkillers and muscle relaxe…
Don’t know if everybody’s been keeping up, but over at Popmatters Marco Lanzagorta (of the never uncool “Dread Reckoning“) has been doing a Night of the Living Dead fortieth anniversay essay collection the last five days. Some ridiculously cool stuff, including a little intro from Romero. Anyway, got a piece up there today, as a Happy Halloween trick. Title / link: “The Kind of Murder Happy Characters We Have Here.” About, um, you gu…
Texas Monthly‘s been doing this serial novel, TWIN WELLS. I’ve got chapter 11. Podcast too. Here. First line: “Baldwin wished he could have mustered a bit more surprise when the dead man rose from the road in the sheriff’s headlights.”
New interview up at Rain Taxi.
And a third link too: I’m on Facebook now, finally. Been getting the invites forever, never clicked all the way through until now. This could be the link. Maybe?
And fourth non-l…
It’s by Roger Ebert, in his review for Nights in Rodanthe: “Paul doesn’t evacuate because of some dialogue he is made to say.” I don’t see how I could love anything more than that. It’s even better in context, too. And, as for why I was reading about Nights in Rodanthe. No idea. I was feeling around, seeing if Blindness was going to be watchable (pun?), then got all excited about Appaloosa, and suddenly, bam, there I was finding that beauti…
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