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I was just reminded about this, so I thought I'd post so that all y'all in Boston can plan your schedules accordingly.
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STEVE ALMOND & KELLY LINK read from their respective collections of short stories The Evil B.B. Chow and Other Stories and Magic for Beginners
Harvard Book Store is pleased to announce that on Wednesday, June 22nd local authors Steve Almond and Kelly Link will read from their respective collections of short stories, The Evil B.B. Chow and Other Stories and Magic for Beginners.
The bestselling writer who took us on a cross-country journey to reveal his long love affair with chocolate in Candyfreak returns with his second accomplished short-story collection, The Evil B.B. Chow and Other Stories. Once again Steve Almond has produced a funny, imaginative collection of stories and characters: a young magazine editor enduring a bizarre blind date; a couple who are sure that they have been given implants by space aliens; a young boy desperate to please his father with his baseball prowess, who ends up fatally wounding another boy during a game; a creative-writing teacher struggling to resist his seductive student.
Magic for Beginners is the highly anticipated second collection of stories from Kelly Link, author of the cult favorite Stranger Things Happen. Here she unfurls an engaging, funny and magical selection of stories with riffs on marriage, cannons, convenience stores, superheros, zombies, and apocalyptic poker parties. Many stories have never before been published; others have previously been published in McSweeney’s Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales, but are collected here for the first time.
As part of the Harvard Book Store Summer Reading Series, refreshments will be served.
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Here's the link to their website for more info. Kelly Link is a graduate of my MFA program at UNC Greensboro, though we weren't there at the same time. I've heard her read before and she is excellent. The vast majority of Boston people on my f-list would likely find her work fascinating. The stories of hers that I've read have been spine-tinglingly creepy. They make her sound a lot more light-hearted in the description than she was in her first book, so I don't know for sure how this second book will be, but I'm definitely going to pick it up. (The thing I've read that has been closest to her style was Coraline by Neil Gaiman. Take that as you will.)
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STEVE ALMOND & KELLY LINK read from their respective collections of short stories The Evil B.B. Chow and Other Stories and Magic for Beginners
Harvard Book Store is pleased to announce that on Wednesday, June 22nd local authors Steve Almond and Kelly Link will read from their respective collections of short stories, The Evil B.B. Chow and Other Stories and Magic for Beginners.
The bestselling writer who took us on a cross-country journey to reveal his long love affair with chocolate in Candyfreak returns with his second accomplished short-story collection, The Evil B.B. Chow and Other Stories. Once again Steve Almond has produced a funny, imaginative collection of stories and characters: a young magazine editor enduring a bizarre blind date; a couple who are sure that they have been given implants by space aliens; a young boy desperate to please his father with his baseball prowess, who ends up fatally wounding another boy during a game; a creative-writing teacher struggling to resist his seductive student.
Magic for Beginners is the highly anticipated second collection of stories from Kelly Link, author of the cult favorite Stranger Things Happen. Here she unfurls an engaging, funny and magical selection of stories with riffs on marriage, cannons, convenience stores, superheros, zombies, and apocalyptic poker parties. Many stories have never before been published; others have previously been published in McSweeney’s Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales, but are collected here for the first time.
As part of the Harvard Book Store Summer Reading Series, refreshments will be served.
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Here's the link to their website for more info. Kelly Link is a graduate of my MFA program at UNC Greensboro, though we weren't there at the same time. I've heard her read before and she is excellent. The vast majority of Boston people on my f-list would likely find her work fascinating. The stories of hers that I've read have been spine-tinglingly creepy. They make her sound a lot more light-hearted in the description than she was in her first book, so I don't know for sure how this second book will be, but I'm definitely going to pick it up. (The thing I've read that has been closest to her style was Coraline by Neil Gaiman. Take that as you will.)
This will be a killer reading
Date: 2005-06-16 04:09 pm (UTC)From: (Anonymous)As for Kelly Link (begin swoon), everyone should love her. She's had a ton of stories in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror series, which she's now editing, and she founded a tiny indie press called Small Beer Press. Plus her stories and seriously amazing (end swoon).
Jealously yours,
-Fritz