Archive for September, 2013
“What a gruesome question. Let’s see. If you leave a tadpole in a jar in the sun it will die.” – Margaret Atwood
News for Apocalypse Now: Poems and Prose from the End of Days contributors:
- Margaret Atwood will be a guest speaker at the 2013 World Congress of Science and Factual Producers (WCSFP) in Montreal, Canada between December 3 and 6; she has committed to writing a contemporary version of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew, for the 400th anniversary of the Bard’s death; she’s been interviewed in the Ottawa Citizen, The List, The Guardian and The Scotsman; and, of course, her MaddAdam is out.
- Paolo Bacigalupi was on Jonathan Stahan’s podcast to discuss his middle-grade novel Zombie Baseball Beatdown and other topics; he’ll be in Denver, CO October 18-20, at Williams College, MA October 22-24, and here in Nashville, TN for the Southern Festival of Books October 12; and has work in the Twenty-First Century Science Fiction anthology (along with 140 And Counting‘s Ken Liu).
- Ed Pavlić will read from his latest collection of poetry, Visiting Hours at the Color Line, Sept. 26 at 7:30 p.m. at Ciné, 234 W. Hancock Ave, Athens, GA.
- Joyce Carol Oates interviews herself for the Washington Post; has a new short story in The American Reader (“Sex With Camel“); and has a new book: Evil Eye: Four Novellas of Love Gone Wrong.
And for 140 And Counting contributors:
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- Stella Pierides is giving away copies of Feeding the Doves (a collection of 31 stories and haibun from Fruit Dove Press) at Goodreads.
Finally, this is a great reader review of Signs Over the Pacific and Other Stories at LibraryThing:
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22 September 2013
So I kept researching, and found out that great whites are part of a group of sharks called requiem sharks. REQUIEM SHARKS.
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Intermittent Visitors: Karen Skolfield interviewed by Joanne Merriam. |
22 September 2013
Sarah Schulman, who was my advisor for two semesters at Goddard, once said in a letter, “If it doesn’t hurt, you aren’t doing it right.†Oddly enough, I got the same advice from my friend Carter Stevens, former publisher of the S&M News.
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Intermittent Visitors: David M. Harris interviewed by Joanne Merriam. |
15 September 2013