Ellen Datlow's Blog, page 52

Great weekend

In addition to all the movies I watched, I socialized quite a bit on Sunday. Saturday I was supposed to be moving books from my apt to storage and from storage to the apt but the car to be used for the moves broke down. So I went to the Union Square greenmarket and picked up my mail, which I missed Friday because of my zoo trip.

Sunday was very busy in a very nice way. Brunch with friends at Gobo, a vegetarian restaurant on 6th avenue just below 8th street (there's one uptown too). Not usuall...

Movies

This weekend I watched three movies I never saw when they came out:

Harper with Paul Newman, Lauren Bacall, Janet Leigh, Julie Harris, Shelly Winters, Robert Webber, Arthur Hill, Pamela Tiffin(!), Robert Wagner, and others. Made in 1966 and it feels it, with Pamela Tiffin doing the frug or maybe the twist. Bacall hires Lew Harper to find her missing husband. Complications ensue and it gets ugly. A good gaggle of actors in an entertaining film. I liked Newman as Harper, a private eye but could...

Zoo Story

Ellen Asher is a member of the Bronx Zoo, and as such receives guest passes. She invited Moshe Feder, Lise Eisenberg, and me to see the lion cubs. Unfortunately, as you can see, they were sleeping. But there were other more awake animals such as one peacock who was making a complete exhibitionist of himself, to no avail, some ungulates, monkeys, gorillas, giraffes, and a few other critters.
The photos I took are: here

A snotty (surprise!) piece about an Evening about Stories

The "journalist" (I use the term very loosely) didn't even get the fact that there are two editors of the anthology--Neil and Al Sarrantonio. (how about some fact checkers, NY Press?)

Neil Gaiman: Vampires and Werewolves Don't Belong In the Literary Ghetto

via Genreville

Photos from KGB June 16 2010 & July KGB announcement

Jack Ketchum and Scott Edelman reading at KGB Bar

FANTASTIC FICTION at KGB reading series, hosts

Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel

present:

Catherynne M. Valente, author of over a dozen works of fiction and poetry, including Palimpsest, the Orphan's Tales series, and The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Own Making. She is the winner of the Tiptree Award, the Mythopoeic Award, the Andre Norton Award, the Rhysling Award, and the Million Writers Award. She is a finalist for the Hugo...

A rave for Best Horror of the Year, volume 2

Innsmouth Free Press has a very nice review of The Best Horror of the Year, volume 2.

Jack Ketchum and Scott Edelman at KGB Bar tomorrow night

FANTASTIC FICTION at KGB reading series, hosts

Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel

present:

Jack Ketchum, the author of four story collections (one with Edward Lee), many novellas and thirteen novels, four of which have been filmed to date -- The Lost, Red, The Girl Next Door and Offspring. He is the four-time winner of the Bram Stoker Award for his fiction and Stephen King has called him "the scariest guy in America." His latest mass-market release is the novel Joyride, backed with the novella W...

The bring peter watts to aussiecon campaign

This is reposted from Cat Sparks' blog. I've a bought a raffle ticket and I hope you all will to.
Ellen

Many of you will be familiar with this story already but for anyone who isn’t:

Last year Canadian marine biologist and science fiction writer Dr Peter Watts underwent a terrifying ordeal at the hands of over zealous border crossing guards in Port Huron, USA. While leaving the United States on December 8, 2009, he was subject to an exit search, then beaten, maced and arrested when he tried to ...

Photos of kitties and from the McNally Jackson reading night

A couple of new photos of Bella and a lot of Sophie taken in early June

and also some photos pre-and post The Beastly Bride reading at McNally Jackson. Unfortunately I seem to have forgotten to take pix of the actual event, or of all the readers with the book showing. Ugh.

The photos of me, Jeff, Greg, and Rick were taken at a cafe on Sullivan Street a block from Rick's apartment. We had time to kill before the reading so enjoyed the lovely weather by having a few drinks.

The other photos w...

A barbie kind of day

Today, two friends and I attended the 8th Annual BIG APPLE BARBECUE BLOCK PARTY at Madison Square Park. If we'd planned enough in advance, we could have bought a "fastpass" for $125, which entitles the bearer to $100 worth of food, beverage, and merchandise (sauces from several of the BBQ sellers) and best of all an express pass. (two of us could have shared it easily or even all three of us) But by the time we decided to go the passes were sold out. To eat as you go (as we did), it was $8 a...