The COYOTE ROADshow photos

[ellenkushner]

(by editor ellen_datlow) are up:

Books of Wonder
South Street NYRSF

And here's a cool new REVIEW with the excellent observation:

The real audience for this book, I would think, would be that fairly large population of hip teachers, those folks who read the genre or are at least not averse to it, and want to plant the seeds for a new generation of readers. It seems to me that this would be the ideal reading textbook for a high school class, the sort of book that students would actually enjoy reading, and that might turn a few of them into permanent readers. I hope the Viking is sending this out to school district book buyers and libraries. Or even just making the students buy the damn book; though more than a few parents will enjoy it as well. For who is more like a teenager than the Trickster? The combination of good and evil, of knowledge and ignorance, that duality of child and adult defines the Trickster figure. The Trickster is the perpetual teenager in all of us.

Comments

[mroctober.livejournal.com]

Ugh, I think those are the worst pix of me evah. I should have worn a paper bag on my head.

[(Anonymous)]

What a cool review! I only wish it could come true....

I recently had a little article on coyotes and tricksters published in the Weekly Reader magazine. Ellen, do you remember those from our grade school days? They did a beautiful job with illustrations (the editor there was terrific) and it was kind of a kick to see the published piece. I never would have dreamed as a 4th grader that I'd be in the Weekly Reader someday.

-- Terri

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Omigod - THE WEEKLY READER!!! Now I know you've really made it. Cool. (And I wanna see it - how?? Maybe Midori could blog a page - with illos - on Endicott? with even a 'graph from you about being in 4th grade...)

And btw, m'dear, when are you going to get yourself a free cheapie (like moi) LJ account so that you can post non-anonymously? You don't actually have to blog on LJ, just set up a name/page - Ellen Datlow has "ellen_datlow" with links to her actual blog on it, f'rinstance. And you could get someone to make you a cool picture, too - LJ folks are very generous & hospitable!

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

I remember THE WEEKLY READER. We got them in class every week!

That's exactly why I got the account--I do most of my "discussions" at my nightshade BB but because of the LJ account I don't have to sign in or remember to sign my name every time I post to someone else's LJ.

LJ

[t-windling.livejournal.com]

You wish is my command....

It's just a name page with links to Endicott, but at least I won't be anonymous here anymore.

Re: LJ

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

You make me so very happy. Welcome to LJ. Love the image!

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Either that or kill Ellen Datlow, which would not be nice. Never mind, my friend; welcome to the glamorous world of New York high society science fiction/fantasy publishing, where to headline (or even show up at) an event is to risk eternal capture at your worst moment. The photoserves are full of shots of us all which should have been strangled at birth. These damned artistic photographers - they think it's a cool shot it doesn't matter if it makes us look like dessicated antique marmosets or blubbery red-eyed vampire psychotic whales . . . .I blame the dread flash, actually. Just grin & bear it!

(And do I really have to explain that no one would ever even dream of killing our beloved E.D., let alone seizing the ever-present camera from her hand? I adore the paparazzi - and Ellen, of course! )

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

(I do, apparently, though have to explain that this was in reply to Mr_October's comment, above. Damn'd LJ!)

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

I have to admit I was wondering why you would kill me for my LJ account ;-)

Steve's pix are just fine. I try not to post really awful photos of anyone--unless it's the only photo I get at the event. Then I'm stuck (if I feel that person's photo needs to be up)...The flash sucks. I prefer natural light. I hate photographing guys at conventions because they usually have a "halo"--lights in the ceiling that I find really hard to avoid when the guys are taller than me (which they are, mostly).

[yaoi-in-exile.livejournal.com]

Ohhh, but NOOOOO, they wouldn't want to ENCOURAGE us in our wicked ways or condone "deceit" at all... *rolls eyes massively*

It's really very silly, the level of things people get paranoid about. The censors would Not Approve (wherever they're hiding in their evil little lair...it's now up to the class of '08 to rise up and put a stop to the chokehold of censorship they have on the schools, although we *did* get away with quite a bit on the computers, thanks to the few lone Tricksters in the Math/Science/Technology magnet who came up with effective proxies...)