HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CAROL EMSHWILLER
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ellenkushnerALSO: Really want to be well enough to go down to Soho Digital Gallery tonight to help celebrate the great writer Carol Emshwiller's 90th Birthday TODAY!
Matt Cheney's put together a website about/for her, The Carol Emshwiller Project, and all day today many writers & friends - including China Mieville - are posting Birthday Greetings. Come and join the party, and leave a post for Carol!
I'd met her when she was Guest of Honor at Wiscon a few years ago - and when we moved back to NYC, we'd sometimes sit together at the Friday Author Lunches Ms. Datlow curates here in a noisy restaurant with great fries. Carol's hearing is poor, now, so it's torture for her - but she gamely shows up when she can, sits at one end and talks to the person next to her. Her eyes are incredibly bright - and she becomes, if possible, even more animated when she talks about the cabin in the California mountains where she spends the summer hiking. Although I know she's a favorite of Gavin Grant & Kelly Link at Small Beer Press, I hadn't read her latest novels - but I was riveted when she read aloud at KGB her trickster story, "God Clown," from Datlow/Windling's COYOTE ROAD. And then, best of all - I found out she lives in my cousin Debra's building on E. 15th Street! Same building. Really. Same apartment, too (and let's not talk about how a family of 4 has squoze themselves into a 1-BR for 20 years) - only Carol's is 10 floors up, and has a terrific view. We try to visit her every time we drop by the cousins' - and I think they know now who the delicate-seeming, wiry little woman in jeans & hiking boots (them NY streets is tough!) they meet in the mailroom is.
New York City's celebration of Carol Emshwiller continues Monday in Green Point, Brooklyn. But wherever you are, drop by online & wish her a happy - and then go read her work.
Matt Cheney's put together a website about/for her, The Carol Emshwiller Project, and all day today many writers & friends - including China Mieville - are posting Birthday Greetings. Come and join the party, and leave a post for Carol!
I'd met her when she was Guest of Honor at Wiscon a few years ago - and when we moved back to NYC, we'd sometimes sit together at the Friday Author Lunches Ms. Datlow curates here in a noisy restaurant with great fries. Carol's hearing is poor, now, so it's torture for her - but she gamely shows up when she can, sits at one end and talks to the person next to her. Her eyes are incredibly bright - and she becomes, if possible, even more animated when she talks about the cabin in the California mountains where she spends the summer hiking. Although I know she's a favorite of Gavin Grant & Kelly Link at Small Beer Press, I hadn't read her latest novels - but I was riveted when she read aloud at KGB her trickster story, "God Clown," from Datlow/Windling's COYOTE ROAD. And then, best of all - I found out she lives in my cousin Debra's building on E. 15th Street! Same building. Really. Same apartment, too (and let's not talk about how a family of 4 has squoze themselves into a 1-BR for 20 years) - only Carol's is 10 floors up, and has a terrific view. We try to visit her every time we drop by the cousins' - and I think they know now who the delicate-seeming, wiry little woman in jeans & hiking boots (them NY streets is tough!) they meet in the mailroom is.
New York City's celebration of Carol Emshwiller continues Monday in Green Point, Brooklyn. But wherever you are, drop by online & wish her a happy - and then go read her work.
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Date: 2011-04-12 03:39 pm (UTC)