Ben Loory & Mary Robinette Kowal (giving their Serious Writers look)

It was a superb night with Ben & Mary, and quite full. Ben read a selection of charming short shorts and Mary read from Glamour in Glass. She also dazzled us with a shadow puppet show.  Ellen’s photos of the evening can be found here.

FANTASTIC FICTION at KGB reading series, hosts Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel present:

	Mary Robinette Kowal is the author of Shades of Milk and Honey, Glamour in Glass, and the 2011 Hugo Award-winning short story “For Want of a Nail.” Mary, a professional puppeteer and voice actor, lives in Chicago. She is currently at work on Valour and Vanity the fourth book in her series.
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	Ben Loory is the author of the collection Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day. He lives in Los Angeles, California, and is currently working on a picture book for children.

Wednesday, December 19th, 7pm at

KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street (just off 2nd Ave, upstairs.)

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Jack Ketchum (right) with fan Trevor Firetog	Helen Marshall

We had our Thanksgiving pre-feast with two superb authors. Helen Marshall read from her new collection, Hair Side, Flesh Side about the length kids will go to get “artifacts” from famous saints. (Use your imagination.) And Jack Ketchum read several chilling excerpts from various works, including I’m Not Sam. Perfectly creepy readings to get us in the mood for the cold winter months.

Ellen’s photos of the night can be found here.

FANTASTIC FICTION at KGB reading series, hosts Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel present:

	Jack Ketchum‘s first novel, Off Season, prompted the Village Voice to publicly scold its publisher in print for publishing violent pornography. Two of his short stories have won Bram Stoker Awards and in 2003 he won Stokers for both best collection and best long fiction, He has written over twenty novels and novellas, the latest of which is I’m Not Sam, and five of which have been filmed. His stories are collected in The Exit at Toledo Blade Boulevard, Peaceable Kingdom, Closing Time and Other Stories, and Sleep Disorder, with Edward Lee. He was given a Grand Master Award by the 2011 World Horror Convention.
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	Helen Marshall is an author, managing fiction editor, and fourteenth-century book historian. Her 2011 poetry collection Skeleton Leaves won an Aurora Award for Best Canadian Speculative Poetry and was nominated for several other awards. Her debut collection of short stories Hair Side, Flesh Side has just been published by ChiZine Publications. She is currently working on her second collection, Hangjaw.

Wednesday, November 21st, 7pm at

KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street (just off 2nd Ave, upstairs.)

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S.G. Browne & John Kessel

On Wednesday, S.G. Browne read excerpts from his Lucky Bastard, and John Kessel read from a work in progress.  Lots of new faces in the crowd for this night of excellent readings.  Ellen’s photos of the night can be found here.

FANTASTIC FICTION at KGB reading series, hosts Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel present:

	John Kessel, who in the last nine months has co-edited three anthologies with James Patrick Kelly, Kafkaesque, the Nebula Awards Showcase 2012, and Digital Rapture: The Singularity Anthology. He is currently at work on a novel set in the Society of Cousins, the setting for his Tiptree Award-winning novella “Stories for Men.”
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	S.G. Browne, the author of the novels Breathers, Fated, and Lucky Bastard, as well as the eBook short story collection Shooting Monkeys in a Barrel. His novella I Saw Zombies Eating Santa Claus: A Breathers Christmas Carol will be released this November. He is currently at work on his fourth novel, Big Egos.

Wednesday October 17th, 7pm at

KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street (just off 2nd Ave, upstairs.)

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Paul Tremblay & Alma Katsu

Despite an evil zombie cheer-leading squad just outside during the readings, the night could not have been better, with guests Paul Tremblay and Alma Katsu.  Ellen’s photos can be seen here.

FANTASTIC FICTION at KGB reading series, hosts Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel present:

	Paul Tremblay is the author of Swallowing a Donkey’s Eye, a dystopian dark fantasy with people in chicken and duck suits from Chizine Publications. He is also the author of the narcoleptic PI novels The Little Sleep and No Sleep Till Wonderland. His short fiction and essays have also appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Supernatural Noir, and Best American Fantasy 3.
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	Alma Katsu is the author of The Taker and The Reckoning, the first two novels in a supernatural trilogy of love, obsession and redemption, The Taker was selected as a Top Ten Debut Novel of 2011 by Booklist. In a previous life, Ms. Katsu was an intelligence analyst and co-author of an American national standard for encryption.

Wednesday September 19th, 7pm at

KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street (just off 2nd Ave, upstairs.)

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Though a heavy storm passed through earlier in the day (what do you have against KGB, nature?) the turnout was large for Jeff and Tenea.  Jeff read a story about kids wielding guns and Tenea read various excerpts from her work.  Another great night at KGB.  Ellen’s photos can be found here.

Jeffrey Ford & Tenea D. Johnson

FANTASTIC FICTION at KGB reading series, hosts Ellen Datlow and Matthew Kressel present:

	Jeffrey Ford‘s latest book is a collection of stories, Crackpot Palace, just out from Morrow/Harper Collins. He has new stories appearing in the July/Aug. issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and After, an anthology of post-apocalyptic and dystopian stories for young adult readers, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling.
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	Tenea D. Johnson is the author of two novels R/evolution and Smoketown. Her short story “Only Then Can I Sleep” will appear in Love and Darker Passions this fall and she is currently working on a spoken word album as well as the final book in the R/evolution duology. Next year, she’ll be co-editing the 2013 edition of the Heiresses of Russ anthology with Steve Berman.

Wednesday August 15th, 7pm at

KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street (just off 2nd Ave, upstairs.)

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