9 This just in: I’ll be doing a fiction reading, with fiction writer and SF academic John Langan, at the Melville Gallery of Manhattan’s South Street Seaport on Tuesday, January 2, as part of the New York Review of Science Fiction Reading Series.
The doors open at 6:30 p.m., and complete details can be found on the NYRSF page. The series is curated by Jim Freund, host of Hour of the Wolf, broadcast on WBAI radio.
We shouldn’t fool ourselves into mistaking the world as we experience it for the world as it really is.
The two are related, but the relationship is complicated, and it’s real work to figure it out.
@Popehat We're never going to change their hearts and minds if we treat this kind of conduct as a bad thing.
Oscar Hokeah's blog post: Debut Novel: CALLING FOR A BLANKET DANCE https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/21549394-debut-novel-calling-for-a-blanket-dance via @goodreads
“the…novelist, who seeks to confer or receive amusement from his labours, may, without presumption, apply to prose fiction a licence, or rather a rule, from the adoption of which so many exquisite combinations of human feeling have resulted in the highest specimens of poetry.”
Jeff Bezos being lionized by rote, thoughtless coverage for going to space privately, decades after we did it first collectively, speaks of the ethos of an age: we've come to venerate what we do alone and sneer at what we do together.
Let's reverse that.
https://the.ink/p/what-we-do-alone-and-what-we-do-together
steelbrassnwood
Damn! It’s unlikely that I’ll get back from upstate in time. 🙁
Anonymous
I should be able to make it.
Bill
shelly_rae
Yay! Now I wish I could stay one more day. I’ll check out the story on Salon. Happy New Year indeed!
Anon
admin
Damn your corporate masters! Well, it’s the thought that counts.
admin
Dude, excellent! I’ll see you there.
admin
Happy New Year to you, too, Shelly Rae. I completely understand you needing to get back to the left coast. By the way, re: seals, had this to say.
Anonymous
Thank Ellie and you for last night. Sorry to say by tomorrow evening I will be out in the heartland, bringing those poor benighted souls, the gift of ME!
rick bowes
admin
Ah, the gift that keeps on giving. It was good to see you last night.
kuangning
Just sneaking in birthday greetings; I hope it was a good one, and a wonderful year ahead.