At the Carol Shields prize last night. I’ve got my reading list for the summer, I think! Sugi presented the award, which was a lovely surprise; we got to catch up a tiny bit! And wonderful to talk with Shauna Singh Baldwin again!
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Okay, that was a bit mad. Shauna Singh Baldwin kindly invited me to be her guest at the literary Carol Shields Prize gala this evening, and I think the prize is very cool ($150,000, recently won by our own Sugi Ganeshananthan!), and I am fond of Shauna (wonderful writer in her own right), so I
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Delighted to note that my essay on Ursula K. Le Guin, “Write, Critique, Revise, Repeat” will be reprinted in a new collection of work by Ursula, coming out from Winter Texts, in partnership with the Ursula K. Le Guin Literary Trust, to be released at the opening of an exhibition about her this November at
I tried to wear my most renaissance-y outfit in honor of Ada’s book event tonight. My jewelry is Murano glass beads. 🙂. Fun to be on theme. Event went well!
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I’ll be serving as interlocutor for the brilliant U Chicago professor (and brilliant SF writer) Ada Palmer tonight, talking about her new book on Renaissance history (and why everything you thought you knew about the Renaissance is probably wrong). I’m reading it today in preparation, and it’s delightful. Volumes Bookcafe, 6:30 p.m., 1373 N. Milwaukee
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I had the privilege of interviewing Andy Duncan at ICFA this past weekend; we talked for almost two hours about voice and historical research and folklore and journalism and a working class Southern background, and much more. It’ll take us about a month to get the full interview edited and up, along with our Deep
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Made it to ICFA — flight delayed an hour because they needed to change a tire, which just seems like the most mundane thing that could go wrong with an airplane… I hadn’t actually registered (sorry, everyone who is very startled to see me here), because this has been such a harried and stressful time
Meta’s AI was trained on the following intellectual property of mine, without payment or permission. Multiple books, short stories, essays.
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In our interview with Jason Stevan Hill of Choice of Games, Benjamin Rosenbaum and I asked what kinds of narrative games were most popular (since we figure some of our podcast listeners might want to pitch to them — heck, I might want to pitch to them.) And Jason said power fantasies were by far
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I’m pleased to note that I’ll be giving a talk at Northern Illinois University, in celebration of International Women’s Day, tentatively titled “Writing a Brighter Future.” I’m not sure if it’s open to the public; once I have more details, will post. It’ll be Wednesday, March 19th, 3 p.m. Now I have to actually write
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