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To a house packed with faces familiar and strange, guests Nathan Ballingrud and Fran Wilde enchanted and amazed, while the sirens outside and the band upstairs did their Manhattan best to distract us. Fran read excerpt from her novel Updraft, and… Continue Reading →

On Wednesday, we got to hear two talented authors perform their works for the audience. And perform is the opportune word. Lawrence Connolly led off with “Beneath, Between,” a story about a man who discovers a book that shouldn’t exist… Continue Reading →

On August 19th, we were gifted with two talented authors, A.C. Wise and N.K. Jemisin. Matt was on vacation so the magnificent Mercurio D. Rivera subbed for him. Ellen’s photos of the night can be viewed here.

On Wednesday, what a treat. We first heard from David Edison, who read from his forthcoming novel The Noonday Plague. And then Jeff Ford read “The Thousand Eyes.” The house was packed, overflowing into the hall, with familiar and new faces… Continue Reading →

On Wednesday, we were visited by two friendly ghosts in the form of Dale Bailey & Simon Strantzas, who both read excerpts of their work. Matt was out of town so he conjured up a superlative substitute co-host in the… Continue Reading →

Lots of buzz and buzzed folks in the crowd this past Wednesday with guests Wesley Chu and Nicole Kornher-Stace. Wes read excerpt from Time Salvager and The Lives of Tao, and Nicole read an excerpt from Archivist Wasp. An all around excellent night. Ellen’s photos can… Continue Reading →

It was with great pleasure that we welcomed two esteemed writers to our midst this past Wednesday. James Morrow read excerpt from his new novel Galápagos Regained, and Ken Liu read from his recently released The Grace of Kings. The house was… Continue Reading →

Wednesday we were visited by two wonderful writers, Caitlín R. Kiernan and Lisa Mannetti, inside the packed KGB bar. Both read from forthcoming works. Ellen Datlow was away, so Mercurio D. Rivera subbed for her. Matt’s photos of the evening… Continue Reading →

On Wednesday we were joined by authors Ben Loory & Mike Allen. Matt was away on vacation, so Mercurio David Rivera subbed for him. Ellen’s photos of the evening can be found here.  

An all around divinely inspired night with Gregory Frost reading”Touring Jesus World” followed by Andy Duncan reading an excerpt from his novel-in-progress, tentatively titled “The Man Who Rode the Mule Around the World.” The stories had overlapping themes about satire… Continue Reading →

It was an evening spent above the Earth, first in the airships above a near-future virus-ravaged landscape in Rajan Khanna’s Falling Sky, then in a solo-human spacecraft in Steven Gould’s Exo. A full house crowded the toasty bar for an… Continue Reading →

Nancy Kress began the evening reading from Yesterday’s Kin, her latest novel, about coy alien emissaries taking up residence in New York harbor, and the geneticist who is brought on board to help them unravel a danger that might threaten… Continue Reading →

For the month of October and just in time for Halloween we were treated (but not tricked) this month with two scary science fiction stories from authors E. Lily Yu and Genevieve Valentine. E. Lily Yu read “Musée de l’Âme… Continue Reading →

It was a night of myriad voices, living and dead, but fully present and well acted by Mary Robinette Kowal and Leanna Renee Hieber. Mary read from the forthcoming final book of her Glamourist Histories, then teased us a bit… Continue Reading →

Because was busy getting married, I could not attend this reading, but the magnificent Mercurio D. Rivera stepped up to sub for me. From Ellen about the night: “Karen Heuler read part of her forthcoming novel and read a wonderfully… Continue Reading →

It was a night from the margins of history as guests Victor LaValle and Sofia Samatar read excerpts from their stories in the anthology Long Hidden. Sofia described seven unusual ogres as she read from “Ogres of East Africa.” And… Continue Reading →