Ellen Datlow's Blog, page 54

A Locus roundtable discussion about EA Poe

The roundtable took place last year and consisted of Gary Wolfe, Peter Straub, Brian Evenson, and myself in a hotel room. The result is now online as a couple of writers, a critic, and an editor sit around drinking and talk about Poe, the fantastic, and horror .

We hope you enjoy the transcript as much as we did the experience.

Interview with Stewart Moore

Stewart Moore on his story "One Thin Dime"

Book Expo second day

Today was even better because I got enough sleep the night before that I wasn't already tired when I arrived. Also, I didn't have to be there until noon. My Haunted Legends galley signing went wonderfully and the two cartons of galleys were gone in 35 minutes (I had an hour to sign). I met a LOT of librarians, something I've been trying to do for several years. I always thought I had to attend the ALA or some other professional Library convention that I couldn't afford and had not entry into ...

interview with Ellen Kushner

Ellen Kushner about "The Children of Cadmus".

Hour of the Wolf this Saturday morning

I'll be on Jim Freund's WBAI radio show Hour of the Wolf this Saturday morning 5-7 am.
The show will likely be archived here:
http://archive.wbai.org/

My computer and BEA

This is a quickie post because I'm exhausted and need to go to sleep early for a change.

Tomorrow  Yesterday afternoon I went to the Javitz Center to pick up my exhibitor badge and see if the books I was to sign today had arrived and were in their proper places. I went over to the HWA Booth that Vince Liaguno and Martel Sardina had already set up (and boy, it's gorgeous and very professional looking). Found out that The Best Horror of the Year, volume 2 had arrived and been signed for but no i...

Interview with Shweta Narayan

Shweta Narayan Talks About "Pishaach".

Johanna Sinisalo about "Bear's Bride"

Interview with Johanna Sinisalo

Interview with Nan Fry

Here's Charles Tan's interview with Nan Fry about her poem "Rosina".

DVD catchup

Over the weekend I watched the beautifully filmed, wonderfully acted but dead-in-the-water (wayyyy too long) adaptation of Somerset Maugham's The Painted Veil, with Edward Norton, Naomi Watts, Liev Schreiber, and Toby Jones.

And then, the awful Live Free or Die Hard aka Die Hard 4 which was all you'd expect it to be--but still, somewhat mindless fun. I didn't recognize Timothy Olyphant as the bad guy (even though I'd seen his name in the opening credits) until the closing credits. I kept wond...