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ivyficFor anyone interested, Naomi Novik and Ellen Kushner are doing a reading at South Street Seaport tonight. I'm planning on heading down there around 6:30.
The New York Review of Science Fiction Readings and the South Street Seaport Museum present
Ellen Kushner
Naomi Novik
Tuesday, December 5th -- Doors open 6:30 PM
Free Admission -- $5 donation if possible
South Street Seaport Museum's Melville Gallery
213 Water Street (more details below)
What greater way to kick off the festive season than with two of fantasy's
finest writers? Guest curator Amy Goldschlager has prepared an evening
featuring two of our favorite fabulists.
--
Ellen Kushner is a novelist, performer, and public radio personality. Her
novels Swordpoint and (with Delia Sherman) The Fall of the Kings share a
setting and quite a few characters with her latest novel, The Privilege of
The Sword. Her work includes the weekly public radio series PRI's Sound &
Spirit with Ellen Kushner, the recording The Golden Dreydl: a Klezmer
'Nutcracker' for Chanukah (Ryykodisc CD) and a live performance
piece, Esther: The Feast of Masks. Bill Moyers has called Sound and Spirit "the best
program on public radio bar none." She is a member of Terri Windling's
Endicott Studio for Mythic Arts and co–founder of the Interstitial Arts
Foundation. She lives in New York City and travels a lot, giving shows and
readings, lecturing and teaching. More information can be gotten from
http://www.ellenkushner.com
Naomi Novik was born in New York in 1973, a first-generation American, and
raised on Polish fairy tales, Baba Yaga, and Tolkien. She studied English
Literature at Brown University and did graduate work in Computer Science at
Columbia University before leaving to participate in the design and
development of the computer game Neverwinter Nights: Shadows of Undrentide.
Over the course of a brief winter sojourn working on the game in Edmonton,
Canada (accompanied by a truly alarming coat that now lives brooding in the
depths of her closet), she realized she preferred the writing to the
programming, and, on returning to New York, decided to try her hand at
novels.
Her Temeraire series has made quite the splash. Reviewing her first novel, His
Majesty's Dragon, in The Washington Post, Rachel Hartigan Shea wrote that
the book contained a "generous dollop of intelligent derring-do." The Times
of London called it "Patrick O'Brian crossed with Anne McCaffrey: historic,
seafaring adventure, with dragons." Peter Jackson has bought the film
rights for the trilogy, and Naomi was subsequently profiled in the NY
Times. More at http://www.temeraire.org/
Books by both writers will be available at the event.
--
The New York Review of Science Fiction Reading Series is in its 18th season
of providing some of the best writers in science fiction, fantasy,
speculative fiction, etc. The series takes place the first Tuesday of every
month at the South Street Seaport's Melville Gallery, 213 Water Street.
Admission is free, but $5 donations are encouraged to offset costs and buy
dinner for the readers. The producer and executive curator is radio
producer and talk show host *Jim Freund*.
--
WHEN:
Tuesday, 12 / 5 / 6
Doors open at 6:30 -- readings begin at 7
WHERE:
The South Street Seaport Museum's Melville Gallery
213 Water Street (near Beekman)
http://maps.google.com/maps?oi=map&q=213+Water+Street,+New+York,+NY
HOW:
By Subway
Take 2, 3, 4, 5, J, Z, or M to Fulton Street; A and C to
Broadway-Nassau. Walk east on Fulton Street to Water Street
By Bus
Take M15 (South Ferry-bound) down Second Ave. to Fulton Street
By Car
From the West Side: take West Street southbound. Follow signs to FDR
Drive Take underpass, keep right - use Exit 1 at end of underpass. Turn
right on South Street, six blocks.
From the East Side, take FDR Drive south to Exit 3 onto South Street
Proceed about 1 mile.
By Boat
http://www.nywaterway.com/ferry/terminals/wallstreet.asp
LINKS:
http://www.hourwolf.com/nyrsf
http://www.southstseaport.org
http://www.nyrsf.com
--
The New York Review of Science Fiction magazine is celebrating its 19th Year
Subscribe or submit articles to the magazine!
New York Review of Science Fiction
PO. Box 78, Pleasantville, NY, 10570
NYRSF Magazine: http://www.nyrsf.com
The New York Review of Science Fiction Readings and the South Street Seaport Museum present
Ellen Kushner
Naomi Novik
Tuesday, December 5th -- Doors open 6:30 PM
Free Admission -- $5 donation if possible
South Street Seaport Museum's Melville Gallery
213 Water Street (more details below)
What greater way to kick off the festive season than with two of fantasy's
finest writers? Guest curator Amy Goldschlager has prepared an evening
featuring two of our favorite fabulists.
--
Ellen Kushner is a novelist, performer, and public radio personality. Her
novels Swordpoint and (with Delia Sherman) The Fall of the Kings share a
setting and quite a few characters with her latest novel, The Privilege of
The Sword. Her work includes the weekly public radio series PRI's Sound &
Spirit with Ellen Kushner, the recording The Golden Dreydl: a Klezmer
'Nutcracker' for Chanukah (Ryykodisc CD) and a live performance
piece, Esther: The Feast of Masks. Bill Moyers has called Sound and Spirit "the best
program on public radio bar none." She is a member of Terri Windling's
Endicott Studio for Mythic Arts and co–founder of the Interstitial Arts
Foundation. She lives in New York City and travels a lot, giving shows and
readings, lecturing and teaching. More information can be gotten from
http://www.ellenkushner.com
Naomi Novik was born in New York in 1973, a first-generation American, and
raised on Polish fairy tales, Baba Yaga, and Tolkien. She studied English
Literature at Brown University and did graduate work in Computer Science at
Columbia University before leaving to participate in the design and
development of the computer game Neverwinter Nights: Shadows of Undrentide.
Over the course of a brief winter sojourn working on the game in Edmonton,
Canada (accompanied by a truly alarming coat that now lives brooding in the
depths of her closet), she realized she preferred the writing to the
programming, and, on returning to New York, decided to try her hand at
novels.
Her Temeraire series has made quite the splash. Reviewing her first novel, His
Majesty's Dragon, in The Washington Post, Rachel Hartigan Shea wrote that
the book contained a "generous dollop of intelligent derring-do." The Times
of London called it "Patrick O'Brian crossed with Anne McCaffrey: historic,
seafaring adventure, with dragons." Peter Jackson has bought the film
rights for the trilogy, and Naomi was subsequently profiled in the NY
Times. More at http://www.temeraire.org/
Books by both writers will be available at the event.
--
The New York Review of Science Fiction Reading Series is in its 18th season
of providing some of the best writers in science fiction, fantasy,
speculative fiction, etc. The series takes place the first Tuesday of every
month at the South Street Seaport's Melville Gallery, 213 Water Street.
Admission is free, but $5 donations are encouraged to offset costs and buy
dinner for the readers. The producer and executive curator is radio
producer and talk show host *Jim Freund*.
--
WHEN:
Tuesday, 12 / 5 / 6
Doors open at 6:30 -- readings begin at 7
WHERE:
The South Street Seaport Museum's Melville Gallery
213 Water Street (near Beekman)
http://maps.google.com/maps?oi=map&q=213+Water+Street,+New+York,+NY
HOW:
By Subway
Take 2, 3, 4, 5, J, Z, or M to Fulton Street; A and C to
Broadway-Nassau. Walk east on Fulton Street to Water Street
By Bus
Take M15 (South Ferry-bound) down Second Ave. to Fulton Street
By Car
From the West Side: take West Street southbound. Follow signs to FDR
Drive Take underpass, keep right - use Exit 1 at end of underpass. Turn
right on South Street, six blocks.
From the East Side, take FDR Drive south to Exit 3 onto South Street
Proceed about 1 mile.
By Boat
http://www.nywaterway.com/ferry/terminals/wallstreet.asp
LINKS:
http://www.hourwolf.com/nyrsf
http://www.southstseaport.org
http://www.nyrsf.com
--
The New York Review of Science Fiction magazine is celebrating its 19th Year
Subscribe or submit articles to the magazine!
New York Review of Science Fiction
PO. Box 78, Pleasantville, NY, 10570
NYRSF Magazine: http://www.nyrsf.com