All the other kids are doing it...!

[ellenkushner]

OK, so here's my



Friday 6:00 PM. Panel
Reading Through Another's Eyes.
James Alan Gardner, Ellen Kushner (+M), Tom La Farge, Robert J. Sawyer, Wendy Walker

One of the devices experienced readers sometimes use is reading and trying to
better understand a book by imagining the response to the text of someone other than one's self. For instance, it's a great way to approach a book that our
significant other adores but is less than wonderful for us. Or one can imagine
the response of a reader from a different period of time or with different genre
expectations-or our own response at an earlier age.


Friday 9:00 PM. Reading (30 min.)
Ellen Kushner reads from her forthcoming novel from Bantam (entitled
Challenge? The Mad Duke? The Opinion of the Sword? . . . only her editor knows for sure!), which takes place twenty years after the events of Sworsdpoint and forty years before The Fall of the Kings.


Saturday 11:00 AM. Broad Universe group reading (60 min).
Jennifer Pelland (host); Elaine Isaak, Ellen Kushner, Victoria McManus, Sarah Micklem, Delia Sherman, et al


Saturday 1:00 PM. Panel
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Important: The Art of Secondary Characters.
James Patrick Kelly (+M), Ellen Kushner, Yves Meynard, Teresa Nielsen Hayden, Paul Park, Delia Sherman

They can fade into the background or steal the story, and there's an art to
knowing which is appropriate, and a craft to making them vivid and rounded when the story calls for it.


Saturday 3:00 PM. Talk / Discussion (60 min.)
Interstitial Arts: How It All Began, And What We're Going To Do About It Now!

Kushner reads from her essay on Interstitial Arts -- commissioned by editor Jack Dann for "Movements in Science Fiction and Fantasy: a Symposium" in his Nebula Awards Showcase 2005 (Roc, March 2005) -- and invites discussion of the concept and its goals. ("Interstitial Arts" are works that cross or straddle the borders between mediums, the borders between genres, and/or the borders between "high art" and popular culture.)


Sunday 1:30 PM. Autographing


Sunday 2:00 PM. Kaffeeklatsch


A complete list of Readercon guests, programming schedule and set of (the usual brilliant and arcane) panel descriptions is up on their site.

Comments

[mroctober.livejournal.com]

Turns out I'm going to Readercon after all, so I'll be sure to sit in at one of your panels/events/readings.

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

If I buy you a drink, will you tell me all about your travels in Outer Mongolia or wherever?

[mroctober.livejournal.com]

Gladly. I went to both Outer Mongolia (old name for the present nation of Mongolia) and Inner (now part of China). However, if I tell the more sordid aspects, I will owe you an apology for an age-old complaint against Richard.

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

if I tell the more sordid aspects, I will owe you an apology for an age-old complaint against Richard.

TWO drinks, then!!

(And if I won't understand, who will? I'll be glad to accept your apologies on Richard's behalf. He'll understand, too.)

[mroctober.livejournal.com]

TWO drinks, then!!

Now you're just enabling / encouraging me, lol. Holly would be so proud of you!

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Oh, never!! I'm actually a bit of a prude about alcohol (and for me, I sing like a canary under the influence of caffeine; booze just makes me sleepy) - wanna see if I can dig it out of you merely by turning the full force of my charismatic, sympathetic, public radio and intimate chamber-trained personality on your jetlag-addled brain? (I know it is, still, considering where you've been - it used to take me 10-14 days to recover from our Japan trips.)

I do love a challenge.

(BTW, what is up with the timestamps on LJ??! It's afternoon here!)

[blackholly.livejournal.com]

It is quite a story Steve has to tell. I thought there was nothing he could do that could shock me, but I was mistaken.

Also, I have your kitchen table in the back of my car! It is lovely!

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Old as I am and steeped in vice, I can't wait to see if he can shock me!

I am so happy about the kitchen table - Delia came home with the silverware drawer, and it is pretty as can be! It sounds like you all had a happy day at Brimfield: you hunted; you killed. Can't wait to see your new throne!

[snakey.livejournal.com]

Goddamn, why does all the really interesting stuff happen in the States? (I was hoping to get to Worldcon this year, since it's in Scotland - primarily to see Jane Yolen - but I can't make it. Buggery.)

It sounds great, though.

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

That is a shame! I'll be posting my Worldcon schedule as soon as they figure it out . . . . Nice to "visit" with you on LJ, though!

[snakey.livejournal.com]

Oh hell, I didn't know you were going to be there too.... ::is even more disappointed::

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Perhaps if you are very Micawberish, something will turn up and you will, too!

[beth-bernobich.livejournal.com]

::makes notes on panels to attend::

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Delighted to hear your Hawaii-clogged pores have succumbed to my wiles . . . .See ya!

[chaoticgoodnik.livejournal.com]

*sees that you're on a panel with James Patrick Kelly and sighs mournfully* O, the inability to be in two places at once. Well, okay, and the lack of spare funds for a con trip at the moment. :)

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Next year, then!