A Reminder for Philadelphians, A Tease for Everyone Else

Tomorrow night, I’ll be appearing at Germ Books + Gallery (308 E. Girard, in what I’m told is the hip Fishtown neighborhood) for a 7 p.m. event with John Scalzi, whose Rough Guide to Sci-Fi Movies I’m eagerly devouring as we speak (well, okay, not while I’m typing, but in the free moments before and after).

As John says on his blog, “We’ll be talking specifically about science fiction films of the 70s (seeing as I’ve written a book on SF films, and he’s written a book on 70s films), but I imagine that the discussion is likely to wander afield as he and I shock and amaze the good people of Philly with our sass and wit (not to mention humility).”

25 January 2006 | events |

Queens Writers Represent!

This Sunday, January 22st, at 3 p.m., I’ll be hosting a literary event at the L.I.C. bar in Long Island City (45-58 Vernon Blvd., at the corner of 46th Avenue). Two writers from Astoria decided to have a reading together, and then they invited me to introduce them because I’m a local, too!

Marcy Dermansky is a MacDowell Fellow who has won the Smallmouth Press Andre Dubus Novella Award and the Story Magazine Carson McCullers short story prize. Her stories have been published in numerous literary journals, including McSweeneys, The Alaska Quarterly Review, and The Indiana Review. She is a film critic for About.com. Twins is her debut novel, but she’s not an identical twin.

Tara McCarthy wrote the memoir Been There, Haven’t Done That back in the ’90s; her recently published novel, Love Will Tear Us Apart, is about conjoined twins who are also pop stars. Tara’s work has appeared in magazines including Seventeen and Good Housekeeping, and on websites including Killing the Buddha and Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood. Her novel for teens, The Pursuit of Happiness, is due out in March from MTV Books.

19 January 2006 | events |